Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Get a 504 to get a no laptop accommodation, and preferential seating away from video game players.

My kiddo had an IEP once where the in class observation report reported 2 different classes where my kid was watching other students play games on their laptops, not even playing on his own laptop.

Really dumb idea. You do realize the Chromebook is a tool to facilitate learning, right? And most, if not all of the games give students an engaging way to learn content and skills?

And that's why math and ELA proficiency rates are so high since the explosion of edtech? Oh wait...

That’s the simple minded way of looking at it.

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Anonymous wrote:Pyle MS took back the 1-to-1 devices, went back to carts, and discouraged teachers from using Chromebooks unless it was absolutely necessary/enhanced the lesson. Of course there are still some teachers who don’t get it or are too disorganized to copy paper assignments, but things have really shifted.

Moving away from Chromebooks and going back to paper sounds great until you discover the school runs out of paper and ink by April and you are forced to print assignments on pink and yellow sheets because that’s all you have left

Ok Chicken Little. Let us know at which that’s happened and the damages your students suffered because they received their assignments on pink and yellow paper (oh the horror!)

Huh. When desktop computers were being rolled out in the 1980s it was stressed heavily that we learn how to code and how it all worked as to be ready for thr workforce. This was the tail-end of elementary school, as ai distinctly remember programming in Basic. But you want students to learn nothing about computer literacy until high school? That's a great way to stunt their education.

To be honest I also teach and I find a lot of my fellow teachers to be incredibly clueless about technology. (I'm constantly being asked for help when our ITSS is not there.) It would be nice to go back to computer basics for everyone involved, really.

I would be in favor of MCPS making chromebook use only available to 11th and 12th graders to prepare them to have the computer literacy needed for college. Hopefully(and thats the key word), they are mature enough by that point to not be wasting a half hour playing Subway Surfers and Snake.

Force all younger students to refine their handwriting and spelling skills by doing work on paper. I teach 9th graders and the ability to appropriately size and space their writing is completely lost. If i gave a handwritten assignment they would fit like 6 words in a block designed for a paragraph.

I have to agree: between laser toner and paper reams we're running up the budget expenses. It's insane.

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Anonymous wrote:Pyle MS took back the 1-to-1 devices, went back to carts, and discouraged teachers from using Chromebooks unless it was absolutely necessary/enhanced the lesson. Of course there are still some teachers who don’t get it or are too disorganized to copy paper assignments, but things have really shifted.

Moving away from Chromebooks and going back to paper sounds great until you discover the school runs out of paper and ink by April and you are forced to print assignments on pink and yellow sheets because that’s all you have left

I would absolutely support more funding to make sure there is enough paper in schools as long as they also quantify how much they save from moving away from Chromebooks. The current situation is not working and needs to change.

Anonymous wrote:Pyle MS took back the 1-to-1 devices, went back to carts, and discouraged teachers from using Chromebooks unless it was absolutely necessary/enhanced the lesson. Of course there are still some teachers who don’t get it or are too disorganized to copy paper assignments, but things have really shifted.

Moving away from Chromebooks and going back to paper sounds great until you discover the school runs out of paper and ink by April and you are forced to print assignments on pink and yellow sheets because that’s all you have left