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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So, you need to balance it because tech is used in college and in the workplace.  My kids did plenty of writing on paper and reading actual books in FCPS — to include my current middle schooler — but they also used tech for repetition (e.g., math), taking notes, and for most textbooks. Most of the textbooks for my current college students are online, as are their notes and the teachers’ presentations.  My DD will purchase hard copy books for English because she prefers them to online books.[/quote]

Kids have lots of teach at home. They don’t need it in school too. Yes college is mostly on the computer and high school is a good time to introduce the laptops one on one. We aren’t talking about high school though. We are talking about the fundamental years of k-8. Students do not need electronics in school. Kids were smarter back in the day because we used books, pencil and paper. When we learned to type and do research, we had to visit the computer lab twice a week. We still learned to type, research, etc. we didn’t have programs like Lexia teaching our kids. We had teachers that taught. [/quote]

The tech is because of the broken model of heterogeneous classes. When we were kids and the teacher taught mainly it was common to group classes so a teacher was not trying to teach to widely different ability levels. Unless you fix that it will be hard to fix the tech use. [/quote]

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