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Some districts in NJ have a 1 to 1 policy where students are all given a chromebooks at the start of the year. Teachers who can utilize this policy and google classroom love it because it off-loads the grading to a program and not a piece of paper.

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In north Chicago suburbs, my 1st grader gets an iPad, and my 3rd and 5th graders have chromebooks. All communication is through school apps, and much of the work is done on those. They use them for homework, and spend much of the day on them. I hate it.

In the same area, both my hometown and the district I attended had 1:1 Chromebook policies. They also had Orwelian programs to allow teachers to see what was on student's screens (!) and later a list of recently closed tabs (!!).

I think as a child your mind is pretty easily distracted ( looking at you IT classes of my time where 90% + of the class would be sneaking on miniclip every time a teachers back was turned )

It's pretty essential if we're going to have those connected devices in the classroom there is a way to control it.

I would prefer rigorous blocking over teacher control - but reasonably I think it's kind of necessity in a classroom setting.

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