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When will teachers learn to STFU?

My son's teacher surely did not like my response to her emai, telling me he was caught playing a game on his school issued tablet.

I told her I would counsel my son to cease that activity; however, what did she think was going to happen when they opted to eliminate textbooks in favor of tablets?

[hanamizu]

what did she think was going to happen when they opted to eliminate textbooks in favor of tablets?

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Of course they’ll play games. Tablets make so much more sense than 40 or 50 pounds of books per kid. Besides the weight savings, districts can have up-to-date texts that could include sound/video, etc. etc. Of course text publishers will charge the same price for the electronic text aa a printed one.

Problem is, as soon as those tablets can access the internet, they are going to be used in ways the school doesn’t intend. And since most of the kids are so much more tech savvy than the adults issuing the tablets, I don’t know how you avoid it. The L.A. school district tried to issue “crippled” iPads and they were “uncrippled” very quickly.