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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If APS can afford to give middle-schoolers MacBooks, I'm all for it. Though not Chromebooks. Every single one I've owned has crapped out within a year. But they can't afford it. At least not this year and probably next.

K-2s should have iPads though. Not only because different assessments are online, but Lexia and Dreambox are excellent programs and can serve those learners that need content turned into games. If kids are learning from them, I see no need to yank them away because, reasons. Everything in moderation. There's nothing wrong with a little bit of iPad time in school. Even for the little ones.[/quote]
No one is suggesting that iPads shouldn't be available for K-2, only that they don't need to be 1:1 based on the amount of use.  How many hours of Deambox and Lexia are you proposing?[/quote]

I'm not opposed to having a policy stating how much device maximum time per grade (or clusters of grades) should be deemed sufficient. Ed Tech should get on that instead of banning them entirely in K-2.

I think it would be awfully complicated to coordinate testing when not every child has access to an iPad at the same time. At our school, my understanding is that iPad time is used so that teachers can do small group instruction while the rest of the class has Lexia time. Signing in and signing out kids may take too much time as well, particularly in the younger grades where not everyone remembers their lunch ID and passwords. Clever has its limits too.

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