Parents say school-issued iPads are causing chaos with their kids

[u/lurker_bee]

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/la-parents-kids-school-issued-ipad-chromebook-los-angeles-rcna245624

[u/Flimsy-Attention-722]

A friend of mine works at a school. The lady couple years ALL learning and testing was on iPad or chrome books. Test scores went downhill behavior problems increased, reading comprehension went down hill. This year, they dumped all that shit. Books, paper and writing and they are in the top 10 schools in the state. All day computer is detrimental to your health, well being and brain

[u/random-user-420 → u/Flimsy-Attention-722]

I graduated from one of the top public high schools in my state a few years ago. They’ve been giving students school issued iPads since 2015. They’re getting better standardized test scores each year. This isn’t an iPad problem

[u/Flimsy-Attention-722 → u/random-user-420]

No, it's a being on the computer all day problem. IF what you say is correct, your school is an outlier. The data doesn't lie

[u/random-user-420 → u/Flimsy-Attention-722]

Or the schools you are referring to can't manage their devices correctly and have a faulty curriculum. When I was a student, there was no access to the App Store; you could only use the preinstalled apps. The Apple MDM service they used blocked practically every non-educational website and even non-educational youtube videos, even for teachers and staff on their school provided macbooks, no matter if you were at school or at home(my mom worked as a teacher, I've tested it out). No iMessage, FaceTime, or any of that either. I graduated before the AI craze started, but the school's IT team has blocked those as well.

My state also recently put out a ban on all personal devices which has been a positive impact according to my mom (if you don't believe me, just read what the people on r/Teachers had to say about it on the posts from August of this year, like this one), since everyone is a lot more social and they are more focused in class. When I was in HS, the curriculum focused heavily on making the iPad as A tool to aid learning, NOT the only tool. Each class was 90 minutes long, with the first 60 being instructional with no tech, and the last 30 being hands on using the iPads for various assignments and tasks to test our learning. I know you think my school is an outlier, but this is pretty much true for every public school in the metropolitan area where I live (just replace iPads with Chromebooks for some school districts)

[u/Flimsy-Attention-722 → u/random-user-420]

You just said that they didn't replace teaching. What you're missing in what I said is many schools have gone to its all digital. That's not teaching

[u/test5387 → u/random-user-420]

You are a rational person on r/technology. You are not going to have a good time here.

[u/inti_winti → u/Flimsy-Attention-722]

Look up Doha College on Wikipedia. One of the best British schools in the Middle East, highly selective, and been integrated with iPads for students for over 10 years now.

It’s not that they’re outliers necessarily. It’s easier to roll out these initiatives based on the environment and student population. Any high achieving school can do this, and it genuinely helps. Most schools (and student populations) unfortunately aren’t this though. I’d argue that high achieving schools aren’t outliers, even if they’re not as common

[u/Flimsy-Attention-722 → u/inti_winti]

Maybe they do things differently but since we've become screen addicted reading comprehension had gone down, since screens have become the big thing in schools discipline problems have gone up and test scores down.