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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I really wish schools would start seriously thinking about ways to detox students from excessive technology.  There is an over reliance on it that I fear will be exacerbated after this past year.  Now would be a great time to return to pen, pencil and paper.  I’m wondering if younger kids even know how to properly use scissors, hold a writing instrument, etc.  All my first grader does is tap, tap, tap on his iPad during virtual school.  Let’s get back to the basics and reevaluate the use of screens in schools, especially for the k-2nd graders.  Get these kids unplugged and outside more too![/quote]

+1. I'm homeschooling my kindergartener but even after things are back to normal and she can go to school 5 days a week, I'm nervous about the excessive tech use. I was given a laptop by my school in 7th grade and it was a huge distraction. Everyone would be playing games or messaging each other on AIM. Students accidentally accessed pornography. It was a mess. [/quote]

We moved our first grader to Catholic school this year and one of things I really like is that they use workbooks and have them writing with a pencil all the time. No personal screens in the classroom. His handwriting was not good last year. He was definitely behind. I have seen a huge improvement this year and the teacher has noted it too.

We were doing virtual K with FCPS at the end of last year and I did not like all the reliance on apps... watch this YouTube video, do this Dreambox math, go to MyOn and have it read you a story. Let alone the god awful hyperdocs where he had to click and drag things and attempt to peck out sentences on a keyboard. It was painful. I think this whole "we are preparing them for modern world we live in" is a bunch of BS. Young elementary students have plenty of time to develop computer skills AFTER they have learned how to write. And even after that point we need to be careful about how much is being done on screens instead of paper. We are going to have a generation of people who lack the fine motor skills we need for things like certain types of surgery. This issue is already being noticed in med students: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/30/well/live/surgeons-hobbies-dexterity.html.[/quote]

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