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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Until schools are able to group kids by ability, the tech is going to stay. It’s the only way to keep the higher achieving kids occupied while the teachers focus on low performers.[/quote]

This. What will it take for schools to start tracking in early elementary?[/quote]

Agree in part. The other issue is behavior. Until teachers and principals are allowed to discipline and if needed even exclude children for repeated poor behavior, the we are going to use screens for that too. Remember when you could be told to sit alone in the hallway or “go to the principal’s office” for misbehaving?[/quote]

Right, now it’s go to the resource person or social worker and pick out your favorite snack. Take a walk instead of doing the math lesson. Of course kids keep on with their behaviors![/quote]

This is not a rationale for using screens in class.  The kids are clearly misbehaving regardless of screen use.  That is a separate issue. It makes zero sense to put the whole class on screens and to use these dumb EdTech programs.  It neither improves behavior or adequately teaches content. [/quote]

As a teacher I don’t think this is the reason. I think the reason is that pre-Ed Tech, there were good teachers and bad teachers. Teachers who taught the curriculum effectively and engagingly and teachers who phoned it in. Even at the same school, even in the same grade, students were receiving different educations.

And the school districts thought, no no no, we can’t have that. So they started seeking these packaged, ready made curriculums to make sure that nobody is getting a “better” education than anyone else. To make it “equitable.” Teachers are now told exactly what they must teach. Down to the reading excepts they must use, the writing prompts they must use, the word problems they must use. And yeah, it comes ready-made on slides by the county that they TELL you to use.

And that is how we got here.[/quote]

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