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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Schools should be required to be screen free the entire day. EdTech is a disaster for learning. It's not like back in the day when tech was something you had to learn to use. These days, even Gorillas and chipanzees can use Ipads! https://www.wired.com/2012/05/orangutans-use-the-ipad/[/quote]

If there was one thing I could fire into the sun, it would be EdTech.[/quote]
+ a million

On top of how it rots our kids' brain, it is an incredible waste of school system money that could be better spent on aides and the actual human beings that teach our children[/quote]

+1, it's a scam. Also at the same time it's rewiring kids' brains for short attention spans and needing dopamine hits provide by interactive screens to maintain interest in something, it also contributes to weaker teaching skills. Teachers who become reliant on programs like iReady don't get as much experience as older teachers got with working with students, and young teachers need the reps.

Teachers often like iPads in classrooms because it gives them a break that they can use to work with small groups or individuals (other kids will be more engaged with a screen than they would be with solo work). That's understandable, but short sighted. It's the same problem as you see with parents who rely on screens to distract kids -- the kids do not learn how to behave without the pacifier of the screen, and it leads to worse behavior long-term.[/quote]

+2 What I don't understand is how there seemingly hasn't been much investigation into the corruption that is obviously happening. A lot of people are clearly getting paid to push this poison in schools.[/quote]

Schools end up using technology to mitigate issues with overcrowding/understaffing.

We should properly fund our schools to reduce class size and bring in more teachers and reading specialists.

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This is untrue. Class sizes in our area used to be bigger. We still have the photos. It's dumbing down the standards. Maybe reducing the budget too to take out the tech dollars and use workbooks instead.[/quote]

There was no differentiation back then. Teachers just taught and it didn’t matter if some kids already knew it or if some kids didn’t get it. [/quote]

And somehow all kids learned better.  Some learned a lot more than kids do now, some learned little more.  But all kids did better.[/quote]

The expectations were also a lot lower. My kindergarten teacher wasn’t expected to teach her students how to read by the end of the year. I went to kindergarten for three hours a day a day and learned one letter each week. That’s it. [/quote]

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