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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Because it is impossible to learn math on a computer. Kids aren't being taught to work things out with pencil and paper. You learn much more when you learn from a textbook. The school districts have been Sold A Story by all of Ed Tech. My kids were regularly given time to play Prodigy instead of math in elementary school. In Prodigy, you spend a lot of time dressing your character, navigating them around the screen and then occasionally doing a rapid-fire math problem - which you can only do if you have committed your math facts to heart already. iReady gives "brain breaks" in the middle of a test - basically a break to play a video game. Lexia has kids playing a video game to learn to read. Is it really easier to stick kids in front of a computer than give them pencil and paper? This is a failed experiment. [/quote] Except it's not an experiment. This is how things are in many schools for the foreseeable future. It is disturbing.[/quote]
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