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AtheistCrusader

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17. A lot of those negatives can be addressed with more competent teachers.

Tue Dec 8, 2015, 01:48 PM

Dec 2015

I'm having shades of deja-vu over the 'new math' we tried to roll out during the space race in the 50's, which was rejected not because it was unsound, but because the teachers can't teach things they themselves don't fully grok.

Now we're having the same problem with Common Core. The changes to the math curriculum are astounding, and fantastic, and of course getting pushback because a lack of teacher and parental understanding.

Passwords and alarms can be addressed easily enough, once and done. Selfies, well, that's a people management problem. Slow connections are immature infrastructure, or bad student behavior.

Yes, they gave the ipads to the kids, directly, in class, rather than a separate lab. My six year old first-grader is using one as well, one for every kid in the class. Lexia, SpellingCity, RAZ-Kids, lots of tools to help the kids learn faster. He's still developing handwriting on-track. The school/curriculum/teachers have to be competent to make this work. (My kid's teacher is.)

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A teacher gave her 8-year-old students iPads and discovered one huge drawback [View all] n2doc Dec 2015 OP

Same with my great-grandkids... Frustratedlady Dec 2015 #1

I hope my daughters avoid this with their children, elleng Dec 2015 #2

Oh, my goodness. She has her hands full. eom Frustratedlady Dec 2015 #5

2 daughters, ONE doesn't have all 3 kiddies, Frustratedlady, elleng Dec 2015 #6

I wondered about the 1 1/2 and 2 year old. Frustratedlady Dec 2015 #7

Thanks. Yes, I collect books for them wherever I go, elleng Dec 2015 #8

I worked at a pre-school where each students parents(s) would volunteer at least once a term..... Tikki Dec 2015 #9

Of course children learn by example, elleng Dec 2015 #10

my mum had three babies in 22 months Skittles Dec 2015 #33

Glad you survived, and I hope she did too! elleng Dec 2015 #34

I work at a special needs sub teacher and was to,d to use the iPad's as rewards kimbutgar Dec 2015 #3

Yep technology is great Kalidurga Dec 2015 #4

At my step-grandson's middle school that's all they use SHRED Dec 2015 #11

As wonderful as the technology can be, SheilaT Dec 2015 #12

Yepperoo. Right idea, wrong age. Tab Dec 2015 #13

A lot of those negatives can be addressed with more competent teachers. AtheistCrusader Dec 2015 #17

That's half Tab Dec 2015 #25

Regardless of anyones age, padfun Dec 2015 #14

I'm going to disagree Tab Dec 2015 #29

Oh no, the kids are advancing faster than expected. The horror. AtheistCrusader Dec 2015 #15

They'll grow into productive adults who sit together in a park Orrex Dec 2015 #16

Like these? AtheistCrusader Dec 2015 #18

Very similar, in fact. Orrex Dec 2015 #20

So, the anti-social thing started with the movable-block type press? AtheistCrusader Dec 2015 #24

What in the world are you talking about? Orrex Dec 2015 #27

I think it's an over-reaction. AtheistCrusader Dec 2015 #30

It's all good Orrex Dec 2015 #32

Or like this one? AtheistCrusader Dec 2015 #19

No, because she's not an adult. Orrex Dec 2015 #21

And you've never seen adults using technology collaboratively, in person? AtheistCrusader Dec 2015 #23

Have you ever seen three dozen adults at a party whip out their newspapers and ignore each other? Orrex Dec 2015 #26

I've never seen three dozen people simultaneously whip out devices and bury themselves in them AtheistCrusader Dec 2015 #31

What? No Ipad? I unfriend you! Ivan Kaputski Dec 2015 #22

A couple of weeks ago my son texted me from the bathroom. JonathanRackham Dec 2015 #28