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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My biggest issue with technology in the younger grades is that I believe kids should learn more interacting with each other and not on tablets. Games can be very addicting with the rewards and adrenaline from trying to reach a certain goal.  Why not have the kids read to a buddy. Or talk to each other about math? Do the teachers actually have a curriculum to incorporate technology or are they just introducing random math games & reading apps? Kids are so easily bored nowadays and require technology to fill the void. Let them sit and be bored. Great ideas come from being bored. It amazing what type of imaginative play kids come up with when they are not on an ipad or video game. I would rather the teachers traded the ipad time for outdoor recess. [/quote]

This!  Absolutely.  The kids still love playing games in K-3.  I'd much rather they have time to play Jenga or read with their friends.  With the Chrimebooks, the kids are all isolated at their desks with their faces glued to a screen.  They have the rest of their lives to do that.  Let them go without screens.

At our ES, the Chrimebooks are used for either reading books on Epic or random math games.  Kids are allowed to choose their games.  Sometimes the games are related to what they are doing in class, but sometimes they are just random games.

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