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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]After touring my child's new FCPS elementary school earlier this summer, I was shocked to learn just how much screens are used (and actual textbooks are not) for learning. The admin who gave me the tour said it's much more engaging that way (meaning students are engaging more with each other and in the lesson rather than &quot;buried in their own textbooks&quot;) but this doesn't ring true to me. There is research that shows kids don't absorb content as well when learning from screens as opposed to books, too. I am not 100% anti-screens, I get the world we live in, but any parents or teachers have thoughts/feedback about this?[/quote]

Screens &gt; books, period.

Books are old fashioned, heavy and expensive. They're also frequently out-of-date.

Why on Earth would you advocate for text books. Are you stupid? Or just old?[/quote]

This is a joke, right? Chemistry and biology aren't changing so fast that a textbook is useless. Algebra hasn't changed in more than 300 hundred years. Laptops are heavy too. And expensive. Software is very expensive and often not based in the science of learning. [/quote]

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