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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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] Teacher here. I wonder if the schools who are mostly on laptops all day are the ones who were 1:1 with FCPSOn before Covid. I don’t know one teacher at my school that has kids on computers all day(virtual notebooks, google slide assignments, etc.) Technology is used but not all day. I would say if I had to estimate by grade level… K-2- 30 mins a day 3-30-60 mins a day 4-6- 30-120 mins a day. 120 mins is when certain projects are happening or students are getting ready to publish pieces. Good teachers know how to balance the tech usage. [/quote] My older dc went to the same ES as my 3rd. The older 2 they had one laptop cart for the whole grade. They were on laptops very little and did lots of physical projects and handwritten work. After Covid, the same school, youngest was on laptops for 2-3 hours every day in 4th, 5th and now 6th. The bulk of the instructional day. In 4th grade, he brought home maybe 5 pieces of handwritten work ALL YEAR LONG. Some teachers are still using the "Gatehouse slides" as pp called them.[/quote] I don't see what's wrong with using the district's slides if they are tied to the standards and teach the content--why reinvent the wheel? Especially since the teacher shortage has meant they need to hire more provisional licensed teachers/teacher trainees etc. They have enough on their hands managing 26+ kids not to mention doing all the outside work to become licensed. And other teachers are taking up the slack for the beginning teachers. I'd advise you to choose your battles a little more wisely. [/quote] [b]Do you think its appropriate for a 4th grader to only bring home say 10 pieces of written work on paper for an entire school year? [/b]Yes or no? Do you think its appropriate for an elementary school student to be on the laptop for 2-3 hours EVERY school day? Think how much of the day is spent out of the classroom at lunch/specials/recess/transitions. [/quote] When this happened to us it was because my 3rd grader was just stuffing the paper in her desk and not bringing it home. Have your talked to your child's teacher about this concern you have?[b] Because I don't believe this is actually happening.[/b] Post screenshots of your kid's light speed report.[/quote] :roll: You can't believe someone else's child's 4th grade experience was different than your own child's in a school system with 180k students? Here's a cut and paste from one of the lightspeed report emails from his 4th grade year (2 years ago): Browsed 80 Different hosts Visited an average of 797 Pages each day Daily Pages per day Sun 0 Mon 952 Tue 506 Wed 964 Thu 1534 Fri 463 Sat 0 [/quote] WOW - was s/he bringing home the laptop and using it at home, too? Or was this just from school usage? What did the teacher and school admin say when you asked them about this? I[/quote] That's nuts. Is she not paying attention in class? Have you ever got the comment that she's "not using technology appropriately" on progress reports--which basically means turning on their laptops when they are not supposed to, browsing the internet etc.[/quote] This PP isn't coming back because they made those numbers up.[/quote] I don't think so. My kid had a year with high numbers and a crappy teacher (4th grade) Why would someone make that up? It gets emailed to you every week. Daily Pages per day Sun 0 Mon 253 Tue 83 Wed 180 Thu 107 Fri 276 Sat 0 -------- Daily Pages per day Sun 0 Mon 438 Tue 371 Wed 725 Thu 466 Fri 681 Sat 0 ------ Daily Pages per day Sun 0 Mon 90 Tue 224 Wed 73 Thu 254 Fri 59 Sat 0 ---------- Daily Pages per day Sun 0 Mon 0 Tue 622 Wed 173 Thu 875 Fri 156 Sat 0[/quote]
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