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Absolutely, but there’s no alternative short of no school. Our first grader is still adapting. Historically he got maybe 20m of screen time a day max. Now it’
by gwittel 6y ago
Absolutely, but there’s no alternative short of no school.
Our first grader is still adapting. Historically he got maybe 20m of screen time a day max. Now it’s about 4.5 hours. There’s a lot of movement breaks and some non screen activity (quiet draw or read), but it’s still a lot of screen time. He’s often pretty bored.
For preschool when they could not open for in person the most they could offer was about 30m a day. That was basically story time and sharing so kids could say hi. Many families opted out.
- giantg2 6y agoI remember when I was a kid (first grade) they would send home the text books and a bunch of worksheets if you were out of school, or for summer work. I would much rather have my kid reading the books and practicing writing via the worksheets. I guess I'm biased, but I hate how reliance on computers is being ingrained at such a young age. Especially if it's just being used for something like Google slides, which to me seems like a poor replacement medium for paper worksheets.
- gwittel 6y agoSlides are indeed a poor way to submit work. That feels more like a lazy way out vs a thought through curriculum. Writing is an important part of the learning process. In our case most of the work is done on paper and they hold it up to the camera for the teacher to see or take a picture and submit it.
- giantg2 6y agoThat's sounds better