but it's not going to get easier.
Hall found that she lost a lot of precious teaching time to things like lost passwords, alarms going off, selfies, and slow connections. Those might improve with time and experience, but that time is not easily recaptured.
“This is not a great way forward for our children,” she told Quartz. “There are great things you can do with an iPad. But it’s just such a huge tool that overwhelms the environment.”
It would be okay if they limited it to certain classtimes a week, or even maybe an overnight, but because they're talking about alarms and selfies and the level of funding, I have to guess they gave the computers to the students, rather than to a computer lab.
As everyone's found, when introduced to a computer, some people get totally immersed. I did this too, and I started
many years ago (think, the 70's). Totally addicted. At least it's generally interactive, but not, even then, the social experience they need, and it just got worse. You need to learn how to turn this shit off, preferably by being raised by having alternatives (reading, board games, conversation, play). That's today's real problem, IMHO, no one knows how to disconnect.
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