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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Jamestown is our assigned school and I think it's terrible and sad to have kindergartners on Ipads during school hours.  They can do that at home.  There are so many better uses of time at school in my opinion.  [/quote]

Unless you have some degree in educational pedagogy, your opinion isn't valid.[/quote]

Sorry, that's not how opinions work. [/quote]

+1. As an aside, I'm a teacher with a pair of master's degrees and fully agree with PP.[/quote]

You may need some continuing education. Screens are an integral part of our lives and knowledge and learning. [b]Understanding how to use an iPad as a tool is critical[/b] -- if you're so afraid of the technology, you may be out-dated in your efficacy.

In second grade, my child was wrote books and produced movies with her peers using an iPad. They certainly had interaction. They learned coding and wrote games that they took turns testing for each other. It was very collaborative. They did multimedia projects in science that involved writing, video, pictures, and graphics.

All of this at Jamestown, btw. [/quote]

LOL. iPads and associated apps are designed to require zero tech savvy. I think there is a place for them in schools in limited, well thought-out applications, but certainly no one will be falling behind if they don't use an iPad in Kindergarten.  :lol:

-STEM person 
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You're a STEM person, so I guess I'm not surprised by your binary thinking. I will let that go.

I didn't say they made her tech savvy, did I? Show me where I said that. I said the iPad was an incredible tool that enhanced other learning experiences. She made a film. She wrote a book. She did multimedia projects. Yeah, she did some coding, but I realize that's rudimentary.

Could she have written the book by hand? Sure. But, it's not like that's inherently virtuous. In this case, writing the book on the screen then turned into presenting the book to parents and peers at book fair. The stream project involved photographs and video of flora that augmented her written descriptions.

It's a TOOL. I use my device all the time at work -- presentations, photographs of white boards, animated videos (I'm in marketing and communications).

This isn't about being "tech savvy" in a STEM sense. Sheesh.[/quote]

Binary thinker. Did that pop up recently on your word-of-the-day calendar? Seems like you really like that expression.

As I said in my post, I agree that it can be a useful tool in the right circumstances, but I disagree that it's "critical" for Kindergarteners to understand how to use an iPad. Referring to your comment bolded above. There is plenty of time to learn how to use it as a tool (plus, frankly, it's really not that hard to pick up). In Kindergarten, there are many, many other more valuable skills that the children should be learning.

Even Steve Jobs agreed:
https://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/09/11/fashion/steve-jobs-apple-was-a-low-tech-parent.html

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And yet, [b]Apple keeps giving Jamestown awards for its integration of technology into the classroom. How about that[/b]?

And, yes, you seem very binary. That's OK -- kind of goes with the territory for coders/STEM people. You stick to creating the devices and we creative types will create the content with them.

That's the new world we live in. [/quote]

I'm not the PP you are responding to, but are you really THAT naive??

Apple is a huge corporation that doesn't give a rat's ass about your kids.  Apple cares about making money and getting its products everywhere and anywhere it can.  Apple cares about its shareholders way more than it cares about your kids.  They give these awards to encourage more school systems to use their products.  It's basic marketing and good business strategy.  How about that?

There is minimal benefit (or no benefit, arguably) to your kid, but a huge amount of benefit to Apple.  They get the next generation of kids hooked on their products.  Their parents buy Apple products because the kids are using them in school.  [/quote]

Actually, Apple (and many other tech companies) also care about the talent pipeline. So, no, I'm not naive. But you sure are cynical. [/quote]

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