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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My first grader went to 175 sites on average per day last week. HOW?

He showed me and he has a program that asks him science questions. He just selects a multiple choice answer (the question was too hard and he just guessed) and then his game restarts. It's like 5% learning, 95% video game.

As a society can we please, please do something about this? I feel like school board admins are too stupid to realize they've been bamboozled by EdTech. This is not learning, this is fueling addiction. I am not a luddite. I do think kids should be writing essays in Word, making slide decks and be able to email teachers, but these stupid games are awful. My son is in dual language- where is the Duo Lingo??? Where are the quality educational tools? Why does Magma Math and Youtube have Ads? I couldn't believe my kids watch Ads all day at school. [/quote]

It's pretty incredible.  My kid got in trouble at school for playing video games one day (along with some other kids, they say they were done with an assignment) and after that I pursued it with my kid's guidance counselor--including asking about putting more controls on the computer (similar to what we have on our home computers, where only the websites we proactively allow are included).   I was told it was not possible and that we could submit the names of URLs of the gaming sites to the school IT guy to block and ask him for advice.

The MCPS IT guy never responded.  We sent quite a few URLs to him...I got the sense that this is a known issue for MCPS, but that it's easier for most schools to ignore the issue rather than doing what Pyle MS is doing and keeping the laptops out of the classrooms (which involves teachers doing more work to actually print out copies of reading assignments, having paper based assignments rather than classroom blookets etc.) 
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