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Anonymous wrote:Pro tip to parents of vulnerable readers out there..... get your kid into no tech school through 8th grade. Vulnerable middle school boy students especially need to be reading actual books and writing with actual pencils / pens. They need to create those brain pathways.

The ship has sailed relative to getting your student to read once they are in high school (and truthfully, middle school for most) so if they are using tech all day at middle school - your hesitant reader will play with learning apps all day and miss out on the critically necessary reading and writing time they need to get their skills to fluent levels.

You only get one shot at this... don't be in a position where you are sending your poor reader kid off to high school. Tech is a disaster for a large percentage of students.

I don't know what "vulnerable readers" means, but tech is vital for students with learning disabilities. They need access to grade level content in the form of audiobooks while they are learning how to read. They need technology (voice to text or typing) in order to convey grade level content and ideas while learning how to write.

No tech means that they can only learn/show what they know at the level of their decoding/encoding, rather than at their cognitive abilities. They also need to be taught how to read and write IN ADDITION TO using technology to access grade level content.

As the parent of a child with dyslexia, I disagree.

We are prepared to have her work with audiobooks as she gets older, but for now, we have her in a ton of tutoring and she reads physical books.

We expect she will use dictation and audiobooks as she needs to read large amounts of text and write longer essays, to deal with fatigue that comes with reading and writing a lot of material. But we feel strongly that while she’s learning to read, she maximizes her potential to read without technological assistance.

How old is your child? The OP was about middle and high school, and if dyslexic students can't access grade level content then, they will be far behind.

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Anonymous wrote:All of the local Classical Christian schools are going to put heavy limits on tech.

VA: Dominion Christian, Oak Hill Christian, Immanuel Lutheran (K-8), Potomac Classical, Ad Fontes, probably also Loudoun Classical

MD: Calvary Christian Academy, Rockbridge Academy

Charlotte Mason is generally pretty low tech - thus Ambleside (K-8, VA)

There's also Waldorf, as represented by Washington Waldorf (DC)

Basically all the local private schools limit tech. It’s not a Christian thing.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Pro tip to parents of vulnerable readers out there..... get your kid into no tech school through 8th grade. Vulnerable middle school boy students especially need to be reading actual books and writing with actual pencils / pens. They need to create those brain pathways.

The ship has sailed relative to getting your student to read once they are in high school (and truthfully, middle school for most) so if they are using tech all day at middle school - your hesitant reader will play with learning apps all day and miss out on the critically necessary reading and writing time they need to get their skills to fluent levels.

You only get one shot at this... don't be in a position where you are sending your poor reader kid off to high school. Tech is a disaster for a large percentage of students.

I don't know what "vulnerable readers" means, but tech is vital for students with learning disabilities. They need access to grade level content in the form of audiobooks while they are learning how to read. They need technology (voice to text or typing) in order to convey grade level content and ideas while learning how to write.

No tech means that they can only learn/show what they know at the level of their decoding/encoding, rather than at their cognitive abilities. They also need to be taught how to read and write IN ADDITION TO using technology to access grade level content.

As the parent of a child with dyslexia, I disagree.

We are prepared to have her work with audiobooks as she gets older, but for now, we have her in a ton of tutoring and she reads physical books.

We expect she will use dictation and audiobooks as she needs to read large amounts of text and write longer essays, to deal with fatigue that comes with reading and writing a lot of material. But we feel strongly that while she’s learning to read, she maximizes her potential to read without technological assistance.

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Anonymous wrote:I was very happy coming out of back to school night earlier this school year. For the first time in at least 5 years, I heard several teachers say they are relying on textbooks more than previously. Never heard this mentioned in previous years. The whole-cloth adoption of tech in the classroom based on no data or previous experience means our current students are the guinea pigs here and losers for sure. Teachers are finally getting real-life data sustained over a period of years so moving away from this stuff.

It's tragic that the schools at large (public, diocesans and majority of privates) all went 1:1 based on NO DATA. Amazing to me how they rolled the dice with our kids. Some will be okay. The vulnerable students will suffer for years to come.

Was this a public or private school, and if you don't mind sharing, which one?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Pro tip to parents of vulnerable readers out there..... get your kid into no tech school through 8th grade. Vulnerable middle school boy students especially need to be reading actual books and writing with actual pencils / pens. They need to create those brain pathways.

The ship has sailed relative to getting your student to read once they are in high school (and truthfully, middle school for most) so if they are using tech all day at middle school - your hesitant reader will play with learning apps all day and miss out on the critically necessary reading and writing time they need to get their skills to fluent levels.

You only get one shot at this... don't be in a position where you are sending your poor reader kid off to high school. Tech is a disaster for a large percentage of students.

I don't know what "vulnerable readers" means, but tech is vital for students with learning disabilities. They need access to grade level content in the form of audiobooks while they are learning how to read. They need technology (voice to text or typing) in order to convey grade level content and ideas while learning how to write.

No tech means that they can only learn/show what they know at the level of their decoding/encoding, rather than at their cognitive abilities. They also need to be taught how to read and write IN ADDITION TO using technology to access grade level content.

As the parent of a child with dyslexia, I disagree.

We are prepared to have her work with audiobooks as she gets older, but for now, we have her in a ton of tutoring and she reads physical books.

We expect she will use dictation and audiobooks as she needs to read large amounts of text and write longer essays, to deal with fatigue that comes with reading and writing a lot of material. But we feel strongly that while she’s learning to read, she maximizes her potential to read without technological assistance.

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Anonymous wrote:All of the local Classical Christian schools are going to put heavy limits on tech.

VA: Dominion Christian, Oak Hill Christian, Immanuel Lutheran (K-8), Potomac Classical, Ad Fontes, probably also Loudoun Classical

MD: Calvary Christian Academy, Rockbridge Academy

Charlotte Mason is generally pretty low tech - thus Ambleside (K-8, VA)

There's also Waldorf, as represented by Washington Waldorf (DC)

Basically all the local private schools limit tech. It’s not a Christian thing.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Pro tip to parents of vulnerable readers out there..... get your kid into no tech school through 8th grade. Vulnerable middle school boy students especially need to be reading actual books and writing with actual pencils / pens. They need to create those brain pathways.

The ship has sailed relative to getting your student to read once they are in high school (and truthfully, middle school for most) so if they are using tech all day at middle school - your hesitant reader will play with learning apps all day and miss out on the critically necessary reading and writing time they need to get their skills to fluent levels.

You only get one shot at this... don't be in a position where you are sending your poor reader kid off to high school. Tech is a disaster for a large percentage of students.

I don't know what "vulnerable readers" means, but tech is vital for students with learning disabilities. They need access to grade level content in the form of audiobooks while they are learning how to read. They need technology (voice to text or typing) in order to convey grade level content and ideas while learning how to write.

No tech means that they can only learn/show what they know at the level of their decoding/encoding, rather than at their cognitive abilities. They also need to be taught how to read and write IN ADDITION TO using technology to access grade level content.

Transplant_1 wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Transplant_1 wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:All of the local Classical Christian schools are going to put heavy limits on tech.

VA: Dominion Christian, Oak Hill Christian, Immanuel Lutheran (K-8), Potomac Classical, Ad Fontes, probably also Loudoun Classical

MD: Calvary Christian Academy, Rockbridge Academy

Charlotte Mason is generally pretty low tech - thus Ambleside (K-8, VA)

There's also Waldorf, as represented by Washington Waldorf (DC)

Basically all the local private schools limit tech. It’s not a Christian thing.

I think this depends on your definition of limit and what the OP is looking for. My DC's K class uses ipads and has technology class but they also go outside and do a lot of hands on learning. I'm not sure if OP is looking for any tech though.

Which school?
I'm not looking for no tech. I think learning to type is good, drafting and writing in a word doc is fine, even an online calendar to help you keep organized wtih links to the assignments. It's the "teaching" and supposed "learning" that is suppose to be done through all online materials that doesn't work. Eg: more textbooks, less powerpoint. More paper assignments, less online. More feedback and grades marked on the paper, then online where kids don't pay attention.

My children went to a public elementary school in NW DC - there was no Chromebook/notepad provided to students (although, I think if of limited means, you could apply to borrow one for the home.) During math lessons, there were "stations" and one of them was to use the IReady math exercises in Canvas. If parents wanted, at home through home computers, children could log onto Canvas and continue the exercises. We never did, but practiced with problems on paper. I found the Iready stuff was more "bright lights and colors and click for the sake of clicking" than learning.

My daughter’s private elementary school has no online component to homework and little to no online work at school.

Middle school will have online work, but mostly in the form of writing papers and doing research. Certainly not all the work is online.

Which school?

Anonymous wrote:I was very happy coming out of back to school night earlier this school year. For the first time in at least 5 years, I heard several teachers say they are relying on textbooks more than previously. Never heard this mentioned in previous years. The whole-cloth adoption of tech in the classroom based on no data or previous experience means our current students are the guinea pigs here and losers for sure. Teachers are finally getting real-life data sustained over a period of years so moving away from this stuff.

It's tragic that the schools at large (public, diocesans and majority of privates) all went 1:1 based on NO DATA. Amazing to me how they rolled the dice with our kids. Some will be okay. The vulnerable students will suffer for years to come.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Pro tip to parents of vulnerable readers out there..... get your kid into no tech school through 8th grade. Vulnerable middle school boy students especially need to be reading actual books and writing with actual pencils / pens. They need to create those brain pathways.

The ship has sailed relative to getting your student to read once they are in high school (and truthfully, middle school for most) so if they are using tech all day at middle school - your hesitant reader will play with learning apps all day and miss out on the critically necessary reading and writing time they need to get their skills to fluent levels.

You only get one shot at this... don't be in a position where you are sending your poor reader kid off to high school. Tech is a disaster for a large percentage of students.

I don't know what "vulnerable readers" means, but tech is vital for students with learning disabilities. They need access to grade level content in the form of audiobooks while they are learning how to read. They need technology (voice to text or typing) in order to convey grade level content and ideas while learning how to write.

No tech means that they can only learn/show what they know at the level of their decoding/encoding, rather than at their cognitive abilities. They also need to be taught how to read and write IN ADDITION TO using technology to access grade level content.

Anonymous wrote:Pro tip to parents of vulnerable readers out there..... get your kid into no tech school through 8th grade. Vulnerable middle school boy students especially need to be reading actual books and writing with actual pencils / pens. They need to create those brain pathways.

The ship has sailed relative to getting your student to read once they are in high school (and truthfully, middle school for most) so if they are using tech all day at middle school - your hesitant reader will play with learning apps all day and miss out on the critically necessary reading and writing time they need to get their skills to fluent levels.

You only get one shot at this... don't be in a position where you are sending your poor reader kid off to high school. Tech is a disaster for a large percentage of students.

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Transplant_1 wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:All of the local Classical Christian schools are going to put heavy limits on tech.

VA: Dominion Christian, Oak Hill Christian, Immanuel Lutheran (K-8), Potomac Classical, Ad Fontes, probably also Loudoun Classical

MD: Calvary Christian Academy, Rockbridge Academy

Charlotte Mason is generally pretty low tech - thus Ambleside (K-8, VA)

There's also Waldorf, as represented by Washington Waldorf (DC)

Basically all the local private schools limit tech. It’s not a Christian thing.

I think this depends on your definition of limit and what the OP is looking for. My DC's K class uses ipads and has technology class but they also go outside and do a lot of hands on learning. I'm not sure if OP is looking for any tech though.

Which school?
I'm not looking for no tech. I think learning to type is good, drafting and writing in a word doc is fine, even an online calendar to help you keep organized wtih links to the assignments. It's the "teaching" and supposed "learning" that is suppose to be done through all online materials that doesn't work. Eg: more textbooks, less powerpoint. More paper assignments, less online. More feedback and grades marked on the paper, then online where kids don't pay attention.

My children went to a public elementary school in NW DC - there was no Chromebook/notepad provided to students (although, I think if of limited means, you could apply to borrow one for the home.) During math lessons, there were "stations" and one of them was to use the IReady math exercises in Canvas. If parents wanted, at home through home computers, children could log onto Canvas and continue the exercises. We never did, but practiced with problems on paper. I found the Iready stuff was more "bright lights and colors and click for the sake of clicking" than learning.

My daughter’s private elementary school has no online component to homework and little to no online work at school.

Middle school will have online work, but mostly in the form of writing papers and doing research. Certainly not all the work is online.