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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My biggest issue with technology in the younger grades is that I believe kids should learn more interacting with each other and not on tablets. Games can be very addicting with the rewards and adrenaline from trying to reach a certain goal.  Why not have the kids read to a buddy. Or talk to each other about math? Do the teachers actually have a curriculum to incorporate technology or are they just introducing random math games & reading apps? Kids are so easily bored nowadays and require technology to fill the void. Let them sit and be bored. Great ideas come from being bored. It amazing what type of imaginative play kids come up with when they are not on an ipad or video game. I would rather the teachers traded the ipad time for outdoor recess. [/quote]

This!  Absolutely.  The kids still love playing games in K-3.  I'd much rather they have time to play Jenga or read with their friends.  With the Chrimebooks, the kids are all isolated at their desks with their faces glued to a screen.  They have the rest of their lives to do that.  Let them go without screens.

At our ES, the Chrimebooks are used for either reading books on Epic or random math games.  Kids are allowed to choose their games.  Sometimes the games are related to what they are doing in class, but sometimes they are just random games.

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Sounds like your ES has better controls than our MS because it has not been a good experience on our end.[/quote]

I'm the PP you responded to.  Sorry, I wasn't totally clear.  Actually our ES has terrible controls.  They are non-existent.  Kids are messaging each other on their Chromebooks - which doesn't bother me a ton, because it seems like when we used to pass notes in class.  But, the access to unfiltered websites definitely bothers me!

Kids in 4th and 5th grade are absolutely searching for inappropriate material online, and it's impossible for the teacher to monitor all the screens.

I can see allowing Computer Lab once a week for K-3, but Chromebooks in 2nd grade are completely NOT necessary.  Plus, MCPS already has budget issues.  An increase in the number of Chromebooks would seem to mean that they'll need to hire more staff for tech support, which takes away money from hiring more teachers.  [/quote]

Well that burst my bubble.  I was hoping that there was a utopian experience happening somewhere so that we could push, pull and prod Alexandria into copying it.  [b]Chrome Books for MS has been a disaster for us but the school system refuses to yield their position because they don't want to lose face.  There are a lot of egos in the way.  The stories my child tells me about the porn and violent videos and disgusting song lyrics that kids are downloading every day in her MS are appalling.[/b][/quote]

Unfortunately this has been our exact experience in our MCPS MS.  Sounds like a universal issue.

Though if there is anyone whose MS seems to handle this better, I'd love to hear from them.  I can tolerate the nudity, but the violent content bothers me most of all.  Shouldn't be an issue at all, but absolutely should not be something that the kids can pull up on the school sponsored Chromebooks.  [/quote]

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