Education "fads" are the worst, and even private schools are captive to it. My daughters' Catholic parish school just announced that all summer work would be through IXL and monitored remotely by the teachers.
Education "fads" are the worst, and even private schools are captive to it. My daughters' Catholic parish school just announced that all summer work would be through IXL and monitored remotely by the teachers.
Oh.
Hells.
No.
I emailed and said I bought a workbook for my kids and we wouldn't be doing the digital app.
10 years ago I worked for a large graduate school of education as a counselor. At the time my oldest children were babies, and I got into a conversation with the head of the literacy program about screen use in children. The professor was distressed about the pressure on her to use and promote learning on tablets, even in the youngest grades. She said it was all coming from corporations who held the purse strings for grant money; it had nothing to do with actually improving education. She said that they KNEW that learning on apps and tablets was less effective than pencil and paper, that all the evidence was against this, that she was seeing the damage herself.
But "1:1 digital learning" was the fad, backed by money, and no one would listen to her sounding the alarm.
It just infuriates me as a parent. I otherwise love my kids school for the community and the (mostly) excellent and dedicated teachers, and I can tolerate a "little" bit of the digital cr*p at school as long as it isn't every day and most of their education remains analog.
But I absolutely will not use the apps at home. My kids don't have tablets, we aren't set up for it, and I'm not facilitating something that isn't beneficial to my children.
Nope. Nope. Nope.
I'll resist, and if it gets to the point where I can't resist anymore, then there is a growing Regina Caeli classical school in the next town over.
Education "fads" are the worst, and even private schools are captive to it. My daughters' Catholic parish school just announced that all summer work would be through IXL and monitored remotely by the teachers.
Oh.
Hells.
No.
I emailed and said I bought a workbook for my kids and we wouldn't be doing the digital app.
10 years ago I worked for a large graduate school of education as a counselor. At the time my oldest children were babies, and I got into a conversation with the head of the literacy program about screen use in children. The professor was distressed about the pressure on her to use and promote learning on tablets, even in the youngest grades. She said it was all coming from corporations who held the purse strings for grant money; it had nothing to do with actually improving education. She said that they KNEW that learning on apps and tablets was less effective than pencil and paper, that all the evidence was against this, that she was seeing the damage herself.
But "1:1 digital learning" was the fad, backed by money, and no one would listen to her sounding the alarm.
It just infuriates me as a parent. I otherwise love my kids school for the community and the (mostly) excellent and dedicated teachers, and I can tolerate a "little" bit of the digital cr*p at school as long as it isn't every day and most of their education remains analog.
But I absolutely will not use the apps at home. My kids don't have tablets, we aren't set up for it, and I'm not facilitating something that isn't beneficial to my children.
Nope. Nope. Nope.
I'll resist, and if it gets to the point where I can't resist anymore, then there is a growing Regina Caeli classical school in the next town over.