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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]They are looking at the Smartboard screen a great deal, because teachers are still teaching with slides, as there aren’t textbooks. Slides give a snapshot of instruction, and then, for example, a few math problems, and that’s the lesson for the day. Reading books and writing by hand on paper allows kids to engage much more fully with the content.[/quote]

How is a smartboard worse than the blackboards of old??? They are far better in my opinion. 
Kids do plenty of reading physical books and writing by hand in our school. [/quote]I disagree.  There has been little to no reading a physical book, other than 20min at home enforced by a parent.  There are no textbooks at school, so there is no material on social studies or science to read.  The students only write during a writing prompt time.  The Google slide decks from Covid are being used and kids might write in one word answers on a worksheet.  There is no dictation.  There is no taking notes at all.  The notes are given to the students in a packet of worksheets stapled together.  There is no textbook to consult with when the student misses some blanks.  So, all in all, very little handwriting occurs each day and much less reading.  [/quote]

What pyramid are you in? This has not been our experience in Marshall pyramid. Tech is used but I see lots of work coming home that is handwritten. [/quote]

DP but same thing in the Oakton pyramid. Both of my kids (2nd and 6th) bring home a ton of paper every day, they also don't bring their laptops home from school. The 2nd grader doesn't even use it every day.[/quote]

Same in Robinson pyramid.[/quote]

Marshall, Oakton, Robinson pyramids are primarily paper-based? Not the case at our ES in Oakton. Is this really supposed to be a pyramid-wide policy? I imagine it has more to do with the individual teacher's style than even the ES itself. Our teacher is very young and seems to favor tech.[/quote]
I don't think that's what people have been saying. I think they're just telling you they go to an ES in one of those school pyramids. My child goes to a school in the Marshall pyramid and while her light speed numbers aren't nearly as high as some that people have posted, she uses her laptop a lot and does occasionally work on it at night -- they do a lot of group projects in Google slides, and last year even her personal narrative was in Google sildes. She also does a lot of Lexia, Prodigy, Reflex, ST Math, etc...[/quote]

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