Quote Originally Posted by OakLeaf View Post


I have mixed feelings about growing up with tech though. ...
I presume no one thought you were blaming teachers. In fact, living in a state where the Governor (who, to my knowledge has never been involved in education besides, perhaps receiving one and I'm not positive about that) has been very publicly fighting with our Education Secretary for years over standardized testing and numerous other issues, I know that I'm very cognizant of the fact that teachers rarely control the education process.

I struggle with how I feel about tech. I typed my papers through high school and I know I was much more careful and deliberate and actually used outlining. I was lucky enough to get a "word processor" my Senior Year (it could display three lines at a time on the screen and looked like a typewriter), but by the time I was in college computers were readily available for word processing. I procrastinate a lot more since editing is so easy.

All of my kids' homework require the use of a computer to look things up. Most of his homework is done electronically and submitted on the teachers' website, etc. All kids in the district now have some form of computer (the school assigns them and the kids keep them all year, returning them at the end of the year) but we live outside of town where it is hard to get good quality high speed internet. My 13 year old goes to the public library after school to do his homework. it's convenient because he hates to ride the bus and my husband can't pick him up right away. If he has to do it at home our internet suffices, or he uses my ipad with cell service or our cell phones as hot spots, but I wonder about poorer children who don't have internet.

I can't quite tell if I like this system or not. I still love books, and hate that when I'm helping with homework we're flipping through pages on a screen. I personally have trouble finding things this way but perhaps kids have adapted. My kids also aren't very patient when they can't immediately find an answer, they don't seem to be willing to work very hard, instead expecting an instant answer to almost any problem. That, however, could just be my kids.