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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The problem is not the interactive boards themselves, they can be very helpful in a variety of ways and it is definitely far more efficient to have content on a slideshow than have the children have to wait while the teacher slowly writes words out on a blackboard or whiteboard.  Opposing that seems just reflexively anti-technology to me.

I agree that showing videos of read-aloud books is inferior to actually reading them in person and should be kept to a minimum (but teachers in here have given good reasons for why it makes sense to use them occasionally, and I don't think doing it occasionally is a problem.)  Also for everyone saying "you should just pick a different book," I think teachers are often told what books they are supposed to cover based on the curriculum?  So if they are told they are supposed to teach a specific book that day and can't access it, they really have limited options besides showing a video of someone reading it...[/quote]

This is not a case of taxpayers not giving enough money for books. This is a case of MCPS spending too much money on screens. You all love to rail about how bad screens are for children but insist on using them in your classroom? Reading scores are at all time lows. It is not better in any way.[/quote]

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