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Posted: Nov 23 2013 at 7:26am | IP Logged Quote MarilynW
Interesting article in Crisis Magazine this week - A School Without Screens

Also reading this article and the Telegraph article it links to.

Things to think about.

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Posted: Nov 23 2013 at 9:51am | IP Logged Quote Erica Sanchez
Read it quickly and will go back later. I thought the discussion in the comments was very good, too. Thanks for sharing, Marilyn.

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Posted: Nov 23 2013 at 3:46pm | IP Logged Quote JennGM
I was skimming the article. I thought at first it meant not using computers in the school. So the whole boarding school is without electronics, even at the dorm? Interesting.

It seems that even homeschooling by high school there is a lot of screen time for part of education, and I'd prefer if there wasn't.

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Posted: Nov 26 2013 at 8:57am | IP Logged Quote Martha
I'm going to go back and read the article, but I use almost no screens for home schooling high school. And it is getting harder and harder to find programs/materials that permit that. I know that because of all the cyber schools popping up and bc for some ignorant reason people seem to think a school has to have "state of the art" classrooms even tho it has little to no improvement effect on outcomes. It's a frustrating thing at times.

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The idea that schools need to offer the most up to date technology seems so ridiculous to me. I spent my entire career working on a computer every day. I wasn't an IT professional but I needed to be very familiar with different software and in general not be intimidated by new technologies. I did just fine even though I never even saw a personal computer until I was about 13. I learned to type on one of those old IBM Wheelwriters and that skill translated just fine to a computer.

Plus any technology available today will likely be obsolete by the time the kid actually needs to use it as an adult so what's the point?

I believe that if a child has good reading comprehension skills and good problem skills he/she can pick up any skill or use any technology as an adult.
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Posted: Nov 26 2013 at 9:48am | IP Logged Quote Kathryn
Martha wrote:
for some ignorant reason people seem to think a school has to have "state of the art" classrooms even tho it has little to no improvement effect on outcomes.


Right...and then complain there's never enough money to educate the masses all while we pay HUGE public school property taxes here in TX. grrrr

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