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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There are no advertising ads or access to YouTube or any other site on our Chromebooks

Computers are here to stay.   Instead of seeing them as evil why not try to show your child what you can learn from the internet.  Show him how to identify legitimate sites for information he’s looking for.   Unless he’s going to be using library books for research papers he needs to know how to use it for the right reasons.   [/quote]

My lower elementary kid does not need the Chromebook or its distractions. It is harmful at the younger grades, even if it might have value at older grades. [/quote]

Neat. Sounds like Catholic (and no, you don’t have to be Catholic) or homeschooling is right for you.[/quote]

Kids in montessori almost never use computers. [/quote]

And if a Montessori school does, then it usually will be once a week, supervised, and only for typing class or a computer class...[/quote]

College computer science prof here: do not give kids Chromebook in elementary school, instead show them how to type and use a desktop properly once a week. Take tablets away! No phone until 8th grade. Using chrome book has little to do with digital literacy. My students have phones and fancy touch screen laptops but they don’t know how to find files in their computers. [/quote]

This. To the extent that there are concerns that children won't be prepared for the 21st century, we should be teaching them how to program--but of course that doesn't make as much money for big tech as IXL learning and other apps. [/quote]

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