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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Here is what I am hearing.

Teachers: your child is misbehaving and not following directions.

Parents: they can’t help themselves. Why are you letting them use a computer?

Teachers: using a computer is part of the curriculum. Your child needs to follow directions.

Parents: at home we never have this problem

Teachers: home is not school. At school we follow directions and learn according to a curriculum.

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I can sympathize with both sides.  However, the US education system has a known tendency to worship at the altar of technology and then find out it didn't help (or worse, hurt) learning.

Kids are goofing off on Chromebooks like mad. My high schooler is telling me that during the school day he is seeing my elementary school nephew goofing off (during the school day, in a better school district 10 miles away). Hmmm.

In general when kids are bored, I try to take it up as a larger issue with the admin/curriculum developing authorities.

I also sometimes try to identify a more constructive thing a kid can do without disturbing anyone.  Free reading and Duolingo come to mind.[/quote]

It is also true that some kids are bored because they aren't doing the assigned work.

--fellow parent[/quote]

Which is easier to hide on a Chromebook than on paper. [/quote]

PP.  I have found that detracking was at the root of a lot of the issues.  Unchallenged kids get up to mischief when given work that is below their capabilities.  They also are mixed with kids who are openly disruptive, which is enabling.  Chromebooks pour gasoline on the whole mess.  It's not just Chromebooks either.  Math ed tech programs and allowing phone use in class (for snapping pics and uploading assignments) are also issues.[/quote]

Nothing to do with who is being challenged  or around other disruptive kids. Get over yourself. Getting into trouble  premeditatedly or by accident  is a temptation and a challenge to most kids. It's the adults who are dumb [/quote]

I'm telling you what I know is going on.  Kids are are silently misbehaving on the Internet without consequences.  Because they see kids getting away even with "loud" disruptions.

In my school district, detracking is absolutely an issue in student motivation.

Elementary ed tech is often used to park groups of students while they wait for the teacher to provide appropriate direct instruction for their level.  Even if it's adaptive tech, it's usually used more as a babysitter, not a teacher.

BTW, I don't have the benefit of living in an affluent DMV school district.  [b]We are in a "good" middle-class school district in flyover country. From what I read on here, DMV's best school districts have the same problems as my school district but many more strong average students and advanced students. Maybe your root causes are different but the behavior of goofing off on Chromebooks is the same.[/b][/quote]

My nieces and nephews in a "good" school district in flyover country got a WAY better education at least through middle school than my kids in a top DMV district. High school is maybe more comparable, but they had opportunities about equal to what my kids will have.[/quote]

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