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RebelLemurs t1_izz3a67 wrote

Man, that's going to be super inconvenient when digital devices all simultaneously disappear for no reason.

Or maybe the world our kids live in won't look like the world we live in, and their challenges will similarly differ.

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BarfKitty t1_j00zdyx wrote

Digital devices as a way to self regulate "disappear" when you are in school. As a School Psychologist were grtting hit hard by requests to evaluate students for disabilities that are really the result of children with no coping skills except mom's phone.

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EFisImportant t1_j01qt7p wrote

What do you do in that instance? Are we gonna see OHI or ED bc students can’t cope without devices?

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BarfKitty t1_j029qi3 wrote

Were not going to see it. We are seeing it. The really difficult cases are tearing up their classrooms and some are being moved to non public schools where they get bribes like "do 3 min of a worksheet, get 30 min of computer time".

Teachers are doing a good job to try to keep up with tech (at least in my district). Kindergarten has lots of YouTube video time where they all get up, dance, and sing to the video. Class dojo is a digital gameified system for getting points for class participation. Math classes use calculators a lot in older grades since you do in fact have a calculator in your pocket.

But the fact is there an increasing number of kids were looking at for emotional disturbance where the problem is parent checked out and immediately gave them a phone. I see it jn my evals on the incoming 3 year old. Parent brings them in and the kid is on the phone. Phone removed-- kid can't focus on the roomful of toys we have set up to play together.

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EFisImportant t1_j02lh6v wrote

That’s so horrible. At that point, not a lot sped teachers can do right? Depending on size of school district, could regular social work therapy services be helpful in that situation?

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