Karlysymon
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The iPads are a major distraction in schools though.Yes, lets put more burden on kids and also a weight to carry because technology bad hurr durr.
How many kids still walk to school these days and even if they do, they can keep the books in lockers. A heavy backpack didn't kill anyone 20-30yrs ago nor will it do so today.Yes, lets put more burden on kids and also a weight to carry because technology bad hurr durr.
I agree, nobody of my generation got hurt from carrying books to school. Smartphones have no place in school where kids should learn social skills and general life skills.The iPads are a major distraction in schools though.
Where do you think the back problems came from? And carrying heavy backpacks will ruin your body and thats a fact. I live in a country where we don't use ipads and use backpacks and it has been nothing more than years of suffering.How many kids still walk to school these days and even if they do, they can keep the books in lockers. A heavy backpack didn't kill anyone 20-30yrs ago nor will it do so today.
Okay that is stupid kids can and should be able to do whatever they want to do, outside of class. Distraction is a poor excuse by controlling teachers.The iPads are a major distraction in schools though.
Yeah outside of class. You just said you don’t have iPads in your school so I can assume you haven’t seen how this plays out first hand. I have. I’m literally hired in specifically to deal with keeping distracted kids on task (amongst other things). You walk around these schools and the kids are lost in the damn things. They are doing ten things on the iPad at any given time and none of it is what they are supposed to be doing. They are zoned out to the iPads even at lunch instead of interacting with their peers. Technology isn’t bad. But there’s nothing wrong with the pretech way either. And children already have a hard enough time concentrating in school with out adding yet another thing to distract them.Okay that is stupid kids can and should be able to do whatever they want to do, outside of class. Distraction is a poor excuse by controlling teachers.
Then teach them how to properly use technology at a given time. You can't take it out. We aren't living in the 20th century, we are living in the age of technology.Yeah outside of class. You just said you don’t have iPads in your school so I can assume you haven’t seen how this plays out first hand. I have. I’m literally hired in specifically to deal with keeping distracted kids on task (amongst other things). You walk around these schools and the kids are lost in the damn things. They are doing ten things on the iPad at any given time and none of it is what they are supposed to be doing. They are zoned out to the iPads even at lunch instead of interacting with their peers. Technology isn’t bad. But there’s nothing wrong with the pretech way either. And children already have a hard enough time concentrating in school with out adding yet another thing to distract them.
There’s a way to do this without breaking their backs as well. Leave text books at school and make copies or upload to a website what they need to do at home.
then why would they need backpacks to bring textbooks home?, students shouldn't be getting work for home in the first place.
In an ideal world they wouldn't.then why would they need backpacks to bring textbooks home?
If you constantly hook them up to books, they are going to appreciate books less.You can teach/tell a kid - especially a teenager - a million things. It doesn’t mean they are going to listen. And the way technology works on the gratification centers of the brain, it is unreasonable to expect them to.
Technology can be used as a tool without 100% taking over all things. There’s nothing wrong with opening a book and I personally think it’s a little sad that we have moved so far away from that. Wikipedia is not an academic source, answers are not always going to be at your fingertips and kids should learn this in addition to learning how to use technology. It shouldn’t be one or the other, and we are doing a disservice to our children by making it so.
I agree to a certain extent but it is the PARENTS who need to teach their kids social skills. Many parents shove their children into schools and some of them will not grow out of being shy or socially awkward. A lot of kids adapt fine but it is not the case for some. What about the bullies? They have 0 social skills and yet who has really taken the time to teach them how to properly treat others?I agree, nobody of my generation got hurt from carrying books to school. Smartphones have no place in school where kids should learn social skills and general life skills.
That, and there are reports of schools spying on students.The iPads are a major distraction in schools though.
Shit, my son's fourth grade backpack was bigger than my HS backpack.my generation got hurt from carrying books to school
Thanks for sharing, Karlysymon. I had heard before that many of the Silicon Valley executives do not allow their children to use these devices. Why don't the executives try and convince other parents to put the same salutary restraints on their children?
Like Peter said, even the app developers disagree with you.Distraction is a poor excuse by controlling teachers.
I have no idea.Where do you think the back problems came from?
But it was designed to be addictive.Then teach them how to properly use technology at a given time. You can't take it out. We aren't living in the 20th century, we are living in the age of technology.
Yes you can. If there is no device to "talk" to or interact with, you'll be forced to interact with the person next to you.You can not force interaction.
False. I turned out okay.If you constantly hook them up to books, they are going to appreciate books less.
Why did you edit my quote?Shit, my son's fourth grade backpack was bigger than my HS backpack.