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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Dr. Reid and central off said last year that teachers need to get back to pen and paper. Less google slide assignments and no you tube real alouds, etc. But it is not translating down to the schools and curriculum services hasn’t been able to re write and take out old slide decks from the Covid time. [/quote]

They need to take the 1:1 laptops out of the ESes and mandate a max amount of time kids can be on the laptops doing work. [/quote]

I agree with K-3 should have limited tech usage. [b] I do think 4-6 should have daily tech usage[/b]. [/quote]

Curious as to why? [b]Its not like they don't get plenty of tech in their "non school" hours. I[/b] have never seen any research done showing kids learn better on laptops. [/quote]

Why are they on tech so much  during non-school hours? You could make your home tech-free other than when necessary. No video games, no TV, no phones.

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This. The amount of time kids are playing video games and/or on YouTube is ridiculous. [/quote]

And it also makes them very bored by slow, traditional means of education that are not moment-to-moment interactive close to their face.  Not just bored--incapable of directing their attention to paper worksheets, whiteboards, teacher talking etc.  They may not be disruptive, but it just isn't sinking in.  This is one of the reasons teachers use tech---they are at a loss on how to engage kids, even those who are well-behaved, but just have had their attention shaped at a different speed of interaction through screens.  Who can get an answer to every curiosity immediately and who have an endless stream of entertainment.  It's not clear what to do because technology is just more information-rich and immediate and personalized than static analog materials and is integrated in contemporary life--but learning with real things and real people is also essential to children's development.  Our kid went to a preK-2 Montessori that limited tech and was filled with books/manipulatives etc. but the "works" that kids used to focus on easily and love (my mom was a Montessori teacher and I worked in her classes in hs/college and have seen the shifts over time) were too boring to many. The pictures on the website etc. showed happy engagement, and sometimes there was, but in the past 15-20 years or so there's undercurrent of boredom and distraction in the young kids that wasn't there before.   I think we need to find new ways of deep engagement--maybe they are technology-enhanced physical activities-- maybe they are not--but I think it's not feasible to go back to the traditional basics and think that it's going to work.  There are certain physical things like Legos that seem to sustain interest and enjoyment over time--maybe analyze the features of those and design more ways of learning?  I don't think there are easy solutions.[/quote]

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