Anonymous wrote:It might help if you elaborate upon what low tech looks like to you and other criteria are you looking for beyond low tech. How low is low to you? What do you think replaces use of tech? Worksheets printed off the internet? Teacher writing on a chalk board? Actual text/library books? Are you wanting old school, traditional/classical or progressive experiential learning? I'm not aware of any mainstream schools that don't use some occasional tech. Most of the schools listed above are either religious/traditional/classic or St Anselm's is all boys for the very bright. I think there are going to be a lot of trade-offs in looking for a school with low tech at all times for the sake of low tech.

Anonymous wrote:Classical Christian schools fit this bill. Dominion Christian, Immanuel Lutheran, Ad Fontes, etc.

Anonymous wrote:I understand the sentiment, but I also think that in HS, there's a flip side. You want you kid to be extremely comfortable with technology - for everything - because if they are not, they will struggle to keep up with their peers in HS on many things. Even if you find a MS/HS that uses technology only in the computer lab, then when they hit college, your kid will be at an even bigger deficit. Forget the workforce. My firm's operating model is zero paper. Young professionals need to be extremely quick with technology, because if they are not, they will not last long.

I'm not advocating all-screens, all-the-time, but a balance truly is better than that. In our kid's HS, they still read paper books, write essays and tests by hand (thanks, AI), and fortunately require kids to use paper in subjects like math and physics where writing down how you got the solution is critical to learning. But a lot of tasks and processes are computer-based, and it's better that way because that's real life and it's more efficient.

[b]I used to think the same way about AI. Now, having seen it at work and realizing that if you do not know how to use AI effectively, regardless of what you think of it, you will be roadkill in this economy. [b]There is a time and place for it in HS education, and I'm glad that our kid's HS is incorporating it, hopefully prudently, into the curriculum, because that is real life, too.

Anonymous wrote:I understand the sentiment, but I also think that in HS, there's a flip side. You want you kid to be extremely comfortable with technology - for everything - because if they are not, they will struggle to keep up with their peers in HS on many things. Even if you find a MS/HS that uses technology only in the computer lab, then when they hit college, your kid will be at an even bigger deficit. Forget the workforce. My firm's operating model is zero paper. Young professionals need to be extremely quick with technology, because if they are not, they will not last long.

I'm not advocating all-screens, all-the-time, but a balance truly is better than that. In our kid's HS, they still read paper books, write essays and tests by hand (thanks, AI), and fortunately require kids to use paper in subjects like math and physics where writing down how you got the solution is critical to learning. But a lot of tasks and processes are computer-based, and it's better that way because that's real life and it's more efficient.

I used to think the same way about AI. Now, having seen it at work and realizing that if you do not know how to use AI effectively, regardless of what you think of it, you will be roadkill in this economy. There is a time and place for it in HS education, and I'm glad that our kid's HS is incorporating it, hopefully prudently, into the curriculum, because that is real life, too.