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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]During tours of Capitol Hill schools this year during lottery season I witnessed:

- PK-4 class at Maury dancing to a video on the smartboard 
- 1st graders at LT working on tablets (1:1)
- A video displaying the words to a story on a smartboard at Payne in a PK or K classroom 
- A class watching a video on a smartboard about another country on a “virtual field trip” as the tour guide called it at CHML

And those were things that just happened to be occurring as the tour passed by! I felt pretty disheartened. [/quote]

Uh huh. 🙄 How much screen time does your kid have at home? 
Have you ever thought about kids with disabilities who may need bigger words than what’s on a chart paper? Or maybe they need visuals to help them engage. Are you going to print thousands and pay for colored visuals?

Are you going to pay for a trip to Italy?

[b]There is NOTHING wrong with what you listed as long as it’s not for hours. [/b]

I have done a 15 minute virtual tour in my classroom, then students did research using books, travel magazines, brochures, etc.

If parents want zero tech send your kid to a private forest school. We have those in this area, they’re cute.[/quote]

DP but what we are telling you is that it adds up to hours.  I wouldn't be surprised if it's more than 10 hours a week once you add in Numberblocks at aftercare, seriously.  And my kid gets zero screen time on school days at home, and a few episodes or a movie on the weekend.  We used to allow an episode after school but when I saw how much screen time she was getting at school I realized the only counterbalance I could provide was at home - and I have to listen to teachers say kids attention spans are terrible while playing snippets of Mickey Mouse Clubhouse 8x a day.   :roll: [/quote]

You can pull from your personal experience, however I am pulling from the 50+ classrooms I’ve seen or heard about. That is why I am trying to say it varies.
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If you are going to make an example make it real as well. No teacher plays MMCH 8x a day, unless they themselves love it or something…which is something else[/b]. That and number blocks is too overstimulating. I use low stimuli videos only, unless it’s indoor recess then yes I will allow Danny Go.

Personally I use videos for morning meeting and yoga after nap on the daily. That is about 10 minutes a day. 
Using a smartboard for a timer and a schedule is not a destructive kids. I also have a physical schedule.

If you want less tech and are refusing forest school you have to start with advocating for a smaller class size. Think 12 students in PK3/4. 15 students in K+ and each grade has an assistant.

Teachers unfortunately don’t have enough time in the day unless you want to go back to the 90’s and early 2000’s where kids just got a bunch of worksheets.

I can do low tech, iReady was a center. 5 kids in each center. 15 min of iReady a day. While whole group tech was 10 min a day. Yes it was still 2 hours ish a week. iReady isn’t a choice.

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No one at all has said it doesn't vary, so I'm not clear what strawman you're tackling here.

As to the bolded: just loud and wrong.  I didn't include a single example I haven't witnessed personally.  And this class had 16 students with 2 teachers and a paraprofessional.  If the teacher is overwhelmed at those ratios she needs to go work with spreadsheets somewhere.

Also LOL @ dismissing my personal experience because of all the "examples you've heard about."  Can you hear yourself?  [/quote]

You implied it doesn’t vary by framing your example as the standard.

You have less experience and no I have seen those 50 in person, the others are just talking to colleagues. I’m sorry you misunderstood.

You are ridiculous, what parent has more experience in DCPS classrooms than a teacher of 15+ years. Kick rocks and scoot along to your forest school. [/quote]

I literally started this conversation by saying that there's less screentime WOTP than EOTP, but on the plus side: at least you're not teaching logic![/quote]

Teachers obviously have more insight as a whole than non-dcps teaching parents. I see your little ego couldn’t handle that.

This will be my last reply to you, I want to contribute to the discussion, and this is really dull at this point. 
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