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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I agree and often feel I am alone in my opinion. Even worse is early elementary teacher who play videos of books being read, rather than reading to their students. [/quote]

OP here.  I remember having a good laugh over that when my children were in Kindergarten.  I mean, what? An actor reading a book on a screen, while the teacher sits in the back of the room next to a shelf full of books!  All these little abuses of the technology in the classroom add up to the kids learning less and being able to focus less.[/quote]

I watched Reading Rainbow as a child and turned out fine. In fact some of my favorite books are ones I saw on that show.[/quote]

You watched Reading Rainbow for a very limited amount of time (Because it was a 30-minute once weekly show as most were at that time, and there was no ability to endlessly stream things and "binge" watch).  This was also in your free time IN ADDITION to your schooling, not as a substitute for it.  It's clearly not the same thing.[/quote]

I LOVED reading rainbow too!  I was a child of the 80s and while we didn’t have TVs in each classroom (the challenger space shuttle launch (for example) was watched by combing it all 4 classrooms in the grade level together)  we did watch a LOT of boring boring filmstrips. The only good part was if you were chosen to turn the filmstrips at the beeps.

In Kindergarten the teacher had a piano she played for singing patriotic songs, but we also had plenty of records we danced and sung too as well.  Tech has been used for a long time in schools. [/quote]

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