The iPads are here to stay. It’s the only practical way for one teacher to provide “differentiated learning” to a classroom with 24 kids and no tracking.

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Anonymous wrote:Rather than getting back to basics next year, I fear the pandemic has permanently shifted much of public education to an online virtual format, even for very young kids. One of my kids has actually started getting migraines as a result of the excessive screen time.

I saw this on the horizon starting last spring. Computer use will be the "new normal" in education.

Too bad- especially not having math workbooks .

Anonymous wrote:Rather than getting back to basics next year, I fear the pandemic has permanently shifted much of public education to an online virtual format, even for very young kids. One of my kids has actually started getting migraines as a result of the excessive screen time.

I saw this on the horizon starting last spring. Computer use will be the "new normal" in education.

Rather than getting back to basics next year, I fear the pandemic has permanently shifted much of public education to an online virtual format, even for very young kids. One of my kids has actually started getting migraines as a result of the excessive screen time.

Anonymous wrote:Any predictions as to how much kids will be using their iPads during the school day? Seems like there isn’t any explicit information about this, but if they’re going to be trying to social distance as much as possible does that mean in-person school will still be a lot of doing assignments on iPads?

I’m in APs but I’m curious about other districts too.

I will have a rising K and rising 2nd grader in APS. I am very concerned with overly relying on the IPADS, particularly as my current APS kid has reverted to writing her letters backwards due to absolute lack of practice in actually using a pencil. Is this a school-by-school decision or will there be any guidance from APS? For what it's worth I actually appreciate both Lexia and Dreambox for what they provide for with differentiation. However, I am very concerned that they have become the language arts and math curriculum rather than supplements.

I think this is also very school dependent- for elementary at least. Some schools use ipads more than others. For secondary, they have been shifting to using more technology and devices daily for years now.

Anonymous wrote:FCPS indicated there would still be a great deal of screen time next year. They have been moving that way for a long time. I've never been happy about it, at least for ES/MS.

Good to know, thanks.

FCPS indicated there would still be a great deal of screen time next year. They have been moving that way for a long time. I've never been happy about it, at least for ES/MS.

Any predictions as to how much kids will be using their iPads during the school day? Seems like there isn’t any explicit information about this, but if they’re going to be trying to social distance as much as possible does that mean in-person school will still be a lot of doing assignments on iPads?

I’m in APs but I’m curious about other districts too.