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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’ve been a school psychologist for 25 years and screen time is detrimental to mental, emotional, and social development in children IMHO.  Montessori and private schools are gaining in popularity because they encourage children to interact with each other and their environment leading to healthier and better educated children.[/quote]

Another school psychologist who has realized screens are way overused in elementary schools to the detriment of most students. I started out as an elementary teacher for five years teaching 1st and 2nd grades then became a school psychologist over 20 years ago.

I regularly observe in classrooms because I have to observe the students I am assessing. I try to slip in and stand in a back corner so students don’t realize I am even in the room.

The vast majority of students are really unproductive when given a Chromebook or iPad and assigned work. The teachers in the front of the room often think the students are doing work but they are watching videos, playing games, or writing notes to each other on a shared google doc.

Even when students are on an assigned task it is often such passive learning. Click here, swipe there- yeah,  now you can play a quick game embedded into the program, now back to clicking and swiping. The lesson is over and the teacher cant walk the room and get immediate feedback on how far students progressed, what they learned, who didn't do much at all.

For one rotation of independent work, it can be helpful but now screens are so overused. It is horrific to walk into classrooms and see the teacher is playing a YouTube video of a read aloud and glancing at a phone instead of reading the book out loud and engaging with students.

Instead of students having math textbooks with worked examples (the problem is solved step by step often color coded with explanations of the steps) students are supposed to follow along as the teacher projects work on a large TV screen and write the steps. The problem is students are absent, went to the bathroom, weren’t paying attention so they don’t know how to solve the problems when they go home and try and do homework.

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