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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Pretty much all schools rely on screens now, and I think that has been driven by both the reliance on screens in our culture and the shift to technology based assessments. It was a profound shift as soon as the SOLs went online.

Only us dinosaur teachers of 20+ years remember how effective non-tech-based teaching could be. It’s going to be very difficult to transition away from tech at this point, unfortunately.[/quote]

But it's possible. Please don't give up.

Expensive private schools - that were the first to adopt tech - have transitioned away from it because they see the results of not using tech. My niece recently graduated from high school in Cupertino (around the corner from Apple!) and she had textbooks because parents in the Silicon Valley also see that tech in schools is harmful. [/quote]

I could buy my own textbooks and workbooks and the principal would go bananas if she saw my kids using them. Principals have been taught that textbooks = BAD.  The exact same text on a computer screen = ENGAGING![/quote]

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