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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I wish someone would clearly outline the money trail of all this stuff. What are the incentives? Are people writing grants for new tech? Who is selling apps and why do schools buy?[/quote]

EduTech is huge.

Read about Bobby Jindal's wife and Smartboards.

It's all $$$ for these corporations and then teachers love it bc it's a way to placate and occupy the kids. So it gets locked into place.[/quote]

Yep. My 4th grader spent 90 minutes a week last year using an app called Reflex that was supposed to teach times/division tables. An entire year of that and she didn’t know the times tables this year when they started doing longer multiplication problems. We made flash cards and learned in a few days. But I’m glad the teacher got 90 mins of quiet time each week while my child wasted time on a useless app. The flash cards would have cost the district 50 cents! [/quote]

Reflex requires parental consent. You could have easily opted out if you had bothered to pay attention to the digital tools permission slip sent home with your kid. But sure, blame everyone else but yourself. [/quote]

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