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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]THanks for describing the details. No, the website didn't do a good job of explaining the details but I used their  description.  Maybe that will be done at the information session.
  Some aspects, such as creating spreadsheets in a science class, seem like they could really enhance learning. However, reports from current parents suggest kids at DCI are not reading paper books during English class, that everything is on-line, which is why parents are concerned.  Kids do not need technology in every class.
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And again, I'm not saying that DCI is or isn't using tech well.  I've never been there.

I am saying that if you're going to criticize DCI for the use of a specific set of computer programs (google classroom), then it makes sense to understand what those programs do and don't do.  I think it's hard to make an argument that google classroom is evil, but whatever St. John's is using (or SAES, or visitation, or Good Counsel, or E. L. Haynes, or Sidwell, or any other school in the area that has 1:1 devices) to manage documents isn't.  [/quote]

What other schools allow students to have unfettered access to the internet throughout the day?  Parents at Sidwell, St. Johns, SAES, etc wouldn't allow it, nor should DCI parents.  Just because it's a charter school, doesn't mean that parents should allow their children to serve as guinea pigs in this DCI experiment. [/quote]

Again, I don't know anything about DCI.  I can tell you that all the schools I listed have 1:1 devices for students (as do many others in this area) which presumably means that students have internet access, but whether it's "unfettered", I don't know since I don't know how you're defining that word in this context.

All of the schools I listed also use google classroom, or they use other programs that provide the same functions (word processing, electronic grading, spreadsheets, the ability to send and receive emails etc . . . )

Do some or all of those schools do a better job than DCI of monitoring student internet use, or of planning high quality instructional activities with and without the devices?  It's possible that they do.  I have no way of knowing, because I've never been in a DCI classroom to see how they monitor student internet use or deliver instruction.  [/quote]

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