Anonymous wrote:OP lost me at handwriting. Seriously? Next you are going to complain they don't teach kids how to darn their socks.

We want them to be comfortable with technology because technology is the future. Handwriting is dead. I am glad for enrichment activities that the school provides out of the common core whether it's trips, or art or STEM.

You want Handwriting? Geeze

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Anonymous wrote:Ok, everyone, put down your phones right now. No screen use of any kind for a week. Nada..nothing, no phone, no tablets, no desktops, nothing.

Then come back here, OK?

So funny how everyone on a screen today decries the use of screens.

You think it's the same as talking about kids 6-15 years old using screens all day?

I wish I used screens less frequently. But as a teacher, while I do use tech, I also regularly engage with my colleagues and students. Comparing our needs to young students' education is apples and oranges.

No it is not. We are moving ftom stagnant to dynamic. It has little to do with a "screen" and everything to do with interaction with content.

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Anonymous wrote:Ok, everyone, put down your phones right now. No screen use of any kind for a week. Nada..nothing, no phone, no tablets, no desktops, nothing.

Then come back here, OK?

So funny how everyone on a screen today decries the use of screens.

You think it's the same as talking about kids 6-15 years old using screens all day?

I wish I used screens less frequently. But as a teacher, while I do use tech, I also regularly engage with my colleagues and students. Comparing our needs to young students' education is apples and oranges.

No it is not. We are moving ftom stagnant to dynamic. It has little to do with a "screen" and everything to do with interaction with content.

Anonymous wrote:I hate computer programs. I want textbooks and homework on paper.

Anonymous wrote:I hope you are not also expecting your doctors, veterinarians, designers, builders, engineers, PTs, audiologists, librarians, energy professionals, sales, realtors, journalists, pharmacists, manufacturers, dentists, military, plumbers, geologists, farmers, auto technicians....everyone to give in to your Luddite mandates. Everything you use, everywhere you go, everything that exists, and all work is now digital. We are expecting kids to be adults in a technological world. Not a third world.

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Anonymous wrote:I hate computer programs. I want textbooks and homework on paper.

Amen, I don’t know when textbooks were phased out but every year I am disappointed there are none.

I’d say it was mostly in the mid to late 90s. We had a social studies text when I taught 4th grade (I think they still do). I remember a math text through most of the 90s. Other than those I don’t remember textbooks during my teaching career that started 30 years ago.

Do we need to discuss why textbooks are not relevant? Really? Do you think schools could use a set of encyclopedias?

PP here.
I didn’t say textbooks are needed. How did you get that? I only shared when I remember last having them. I answered the OP’s question, so stop with the eye rolls.

I really don’t understand the follow-up eye roll.

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Anonymous wrote:Ok, everyone, put down your phones right now. No screen use of any kind for a week. Nada..nothing, no phone, no tablets, no desktops, nothing.

Then come back here, OK?

So funny how everyone on a screen today decries the use of screens.

You think it's the same as talking about kids 6-15 years old using screens all day?

I wish I used screens less frequently. But as a teacher, while I do use tech, I also regularly engage with my colleagues and students. Comparing our needs to young students' education is apples and oranges.

Anonymous wrote:I'm a middle school teacher (not in DC) and my public school has recently transitioned to a strong tech focus and my students use an online science curriculum (amplify). I hate it. It is one of many reasons I am trying to leave teaching. It is not developmentally appropriate or beneficial for sixth graders to be on tablets most of the school day. Moreover, my admin wants discussion and collaboration-students staring at their screens is not how to get it. I so miss the teaching of five, ten years ago. Our ed system is broken.

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Anonymous wrote:Google and Apple and Microsoft have huge nonprofit budgets to push technology in schools. That's where it started.

Ah, no. We buy what we want to do the job. Good grief.

As someone in tech sales that sees how non-profit sales work happens, you are so naively mistaken lol. These vendors are all chomping at the bit for a shot at those FCPS dollars.

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Anonymous wrote:OP here again - my wife and I read through all the comments and had a good laugh - if we hadn't laughed we'd probably be crying. We watched Idiocracy a few months ago, they skip over the gritty minutiae of how society warps from the society the protagonist leaves at "present day", to the dumbed down future. The replies in this thread are probably a better than anything the director could have conjured up to explain how they would get from "present day" to that future.

Handwriting is dead? No one is dysregulated from screens? Textbooks are a relic? Screens screens screen! And all the people that think they're profound by saying THEN DON'T USE YOUR SCREENS HURR HURR HURR, do you not realize that what you're admitting is that we are trapped in this?? Seriously, this is how we get to going to the doctor, and them diagnosing you like this: https://www[.]youtube.com/watch?v=oCIo4MCO-_U

To the teachers having to focus on Lexia and other silliness, my heart goes out to you. To the FCPS teacher retiring this year, you will be missed. Every time a careerist leaves this system, and your memory of how things used to be departs the district, we all lose out.

The teacher saying reading specialists report your Lexia numbers up to admin is depressing to hear. It is so demoralizing seeing what you have to go through as teachers these days - it is a sad state of affairs and you deserve better. Many people here have already stated the issue - the kids are too distracted by the temptations of other websites, other videos, anything else, and the teachers are spread too thin to manage 20+ learners all on different computers. Behavior issues are such a challenge and the teachers have no tools to use, especially with bully parents insisting it's anyone's fault but their children (or especially the parents themselves). It's a losing system.

To the parent with the juvenile Einstein who gets to do Lexia while they are in class because they are too advanced for the lesson at hand or whatever - your poor tortured scholar! I hope they're in AAP, and I'm sure they have a spot waiting for them at TJ. You should be proud.

In July 1969 we sent a bunch of men to the moon in a complex operation unlike any before it, in a rocket designed, built, and tested by other men and women none of whom had ever done Lexia or ST Math.What have we as a society done since having all this screen based enrichment, other than spawning a bunch of cynical companies farming our likes, clicks, views, hypnotizing us into relying on the convenience, the easiness, the quick button clicks, farming algorithms to time markets, or whatever other insipid garbage most of our economy pumps out? What value is actually being created?

Your phone has more computing power than any of the computers they used to send those guys up there, and some of you can't even spell Colombia correctly. You are the problem, trust me.

You wrote a lot and yet changed nothing…

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Anonymous wrote:OP here again - my wife and I read through all the comments and had a good laugh - if we hadn't laughed we'd probably be crying. We watched Idiocracy a few months ago, they skip over the gritty minutiae of how society warps from the society the protagonist leaves at "present day", to the dumbed down future. The replies in this thread are probably a better than anything the director could have conjured up to explain how they would get from "present day" to that future.

Handwriting is dead? No one is dysregulated from screens? Textbooks are a relic? Screens screens screen! And all the people that think they're profound by saying THEN DON'T USE YOUR SCREENS HURR HURR HURR, do you not realize that what you're admitting is that we are trapped in this?? Seriously, this is how we get to going to the doctor, and them diagnosing you like this: https://www[.]youtube.com/watch?v=oCIo4MCO-_U

To the teachers having to focus on Lexia and other silliness, my heart goes out to you. To the FCPS teacher retiring this year, you will be missed. Every time a careerist leaves this system, and your memory of how things used to be departs the district, we all lose out.

The teacher saying reading specialists report your Lexia numbers up to admin is depressing to hear. It is so demoralizing seeing what you have to go through as teachers these days - it is a sad state of affairs and you deserve better. Many people here have already stated the issue - the kids are too distracted by the temptations of other websites, other videos, anything else, and the teachers are spread too thin to manage 20+ learners all on different computers. Behavior issues are such a challenge and the teachers have no tools to use, especially with bully parents insisting it's anyone's fault but their children (or especially the parents themselves). It's a losing system.

To the parent with the juvenile Einstein who gets to do Lexia while they are in class because they are too advanced for the lesson at hand or whatever - your poor tortured scholar! I hope they're in AAP, and I'm sure they have a spot waiting for them at TJ. You should be proud.

In July 1969 we sent a bunch of men to the moon in a complex operation unlike any before it, in a rocket designed, built, and tested by other men and women none of whom had ever done Lexia or ST Math.What have we as a society done since having all this screen based enrichment, other than spawning a bunch of cynical companies farming our likes, clicks, views, hypnotizing us into relying on the convenience, the easiness, the quick button clicks, farming algorithms to time markets, or whatever other insipid garbage most of our economy pumps out? What value is actually being created?

Your phone has more computing power than any of the computers they used to send those guys up there, and some of you can't even spell Colombia correctly. You are the problem, trust me.

You wrote a lot and yet changed nothing…

Anonymous wrote:OP here again - my wife and I read through all the comments and had a good laugh - if we hadn't laughed we'd probably be crying. We watched Idiocracy a few months ago, they skip over the gritty minutiae of how society warps from the society the protagonist leaves at "present day", to the dumbed down future. The replies in this thread are probably a better than anything the director could have conjured up to explain how they would get from "present day" to that future.

Handwriting is dead? No one is dysregulated from screens? Textbooks are a relic? Screens screens screen! And all the people that think they're profound by saying THEN DON'T USE YOUR SCREENS HURR HURR HURR, do you not realize that what you're admitting is that we are trapped in this?? Seriously, this is how we get to going to the doctor, and them diagnosing you like this: https://www[.]youtube.com/watch?v=oCIo4MCO-_U

To the teachers having to focus on Lexia and other silliness, my heart goes out to you. To the FCPS teacher retiring this year, you will be missed. Every time a careerist leaves this system, and your memory of how things used to be departs the district, we all lose out.

The teacher saying reading specialists report your Lexia numbers up to admin is depressing to hear. It is so demoralizing seeing what you have to go through as teachers these days - it is a sad state of affairs and you deserve better. Many people here have already stated the issue - the kids are too distracted by the temptations of other websites, other videos, anything else, and the teachers are spread too thin to manage 20+ learners all on different computers. Behavior issues are such a challenge and the teachers have no tools to use, especially with bully parents insisting it's anyone's fault but their children (or especially the parents themselves). It's a losing system.

To the parent with the juvenile Einstein who gets to do Lexia while they are in class because they are too advanced for the lesson at hand or whatever - your poor tortured scholar! I hope they're in AAP, and I'm sure they have a spot waiting for them at TJ. You should be proud.

In July 1969 we sent a bunch of men to the moon in a complex operation unlike any before it, in a rocket designed, built, and tested by other men and women none of whom had ever done Lexia or ST Math.What have we as a society done since having all this screen based enrichment, other than spawning a bunch of cynical companies farming our likes, clicks, views, hypnotizing us into relying on the convenience, the easiness, the quick button clicks, farming algorithms to time markets, or whatever other insipid garbage most of our economy pumps out? What value is actually being created?

Your phone has more computing power than any of the computers they used to send those guys up there, and some of you can't even spell Colombia correctly. You are the problem, trust me.