To be sick of school directly undermining me

Glow is the system used throughout their education. In secondary it is common for pupils to submit work on it. Or even email their teacher directly. It's Nationwide.

It will be down to each local authority and individual class application but pretty much yes.

The issues OP has raised and the issues emerging are abhorrent. Yet nobody cares, the teachers who object, cannot speak out. The local authorities that have gone down this route have bought into Apple and all that goes with it.

it is the same for my very young children.

I could go on and on. Would you like to know about age 7 year olds being asked to enter into a contract? And sign same? Despite it being illegal to do so?

the entire thing is a nightmare

Is it in Scotland? I would say not the norm. Def school's choice. Some teachers do get carried away with technology (I am a teacher myself). In my son's school there's some use of tech but to supplement paper and pencil work.

I could tell you're in Scotland. We don't have reception, governors, ehcp, etc here it's a completely different education system!

My children have each had a school issued iPad from p5, they're now S1 and S5. I actually really like it, each child gets the same, don't need to worry about paying for the device, repairs, uogrades or compatability issues. They are completely locked down and can only access the council approved education apps. YouTube isn't available on ours at all. Makes homework easier too as it's all in one place and get lost!

Glow is the how every child logs into the system, they will have had a glow account from the day you registered them in school.

I'm not sure why the school would ask you for approval to use apps, it's such a routine part of education now, they school will only use the approved apps too. Things like Sumdog, Reading Eggs.

The apps with making friends, they won't be able just to friend any random person, it will be children in their class and they'll be playing educational games. Hence why they need the code to access it.

There was a backlash against the ebooks for reading at our primary school. But the.head teacher explained that paper books were getting destroyed or never returned and at £600 for just one class set of books, and they need several books at each level reading level the school just couldn't afford enough books to go around so the solution was to switch to ebooks. They still get to visit the library and choose their own personal reading books. The PTA offered to fund raise but it didn't make a dent in what was needed.

I have found it's very teacher dependant too, some use them a lot verging on reliance and some hardly use them at all. You're not going to win this battle, that ship has sailed a long time ago! Your choices are change schools with a placing request (but it might not be any different elsewhere) , go private or home school. You don't get to control this.

My dd is 17 and in her last year of education before university. She started school with an email address and school ipad when she was 5. I’m not in the UK. We are in a wealthy US school district.

It’s interesting to see the anti-tech panic as computers roll out to more schools. An entire generation has already been successfully educated with tech.

My son is 15, but this wasn't typical at his Infant school and isn't typical of his secondary school either! I work in a First school and yes the children get to use an iPad but as there's only 30 for the entire school, it's not often! Yes, if it's a wet lunch they may watch something on the screen.

But he must have used a Chromebook or laptop/desktop computer (neither very common in schools now) in order to access the Computing curriculum if he is in England?

I’m sorry I’m not here to advise but I’m just so worried about this. My child is only two (this month) but I can’t help but worry what screen time school will call mandatory. I absolutely don’t want him using an iPad, especially not in primary school but this seems really unlikely and I’m dreading it

It doesn’t matter. It’s across the board here. No opt out.

Also, those iPads are contributing to this

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c89j0899785o

Glasgow City Council gives every child an iPad. Obviously each school will use them differently but unless the OP pays for private, saying "just change school" is not that straightforward. She would need to go to another local authority - if she can get a place - and travel potentially considerable distances each day.

None of the schools local to me (England) are like this, even at high school. There is absolutely no evidence that any of the screen-based learning is actually of benefit to children. Even if there were a clear benefit, it's outrageous for school to use apps with adverts and to regularly show kids tv instead of actually giving them real PE lessons or educating them.

Been a TA in reception class for over a year now and the only time we use iPads is to take pictures to upload to parents on the school class platform.
We use the interactive whiteboard for class games like number locks ect and we do look up class related topics, and we do a daily music time with Danny go or something to get the children moving but the children have no access to iPads at all.

I think technology is inevitable, everything is online now. But in moderation, and with purpose.

Not normal here, my kids have always come home with mountains of books/paperwork at the end of the year, and still go to the school library once a week to change their reading books.

They are popular around here in secondary schools. Some more than others.
Lazy teaching.

DS,s school like to get very sanctimonious about screens and not letting them have phones. All well and good.

But….all the homework is on apps. Half the lessons seem to be internet videos or work on apps. All the reading is on an app. The schools meals are paid for via an app. Ditto the bus ticket to get to school.

The Soarks reader app has utterly destroyed DS’s love of reading and has now done the same for Dnephew

then we get another patronising email about not letting them have phones and limiting screen time

@Pigriverscotland. Standard. Huge battle ongoing

Look up ‘Steven Jobs schools’ in the Netherlands. Completely failed experiment of using iPads in education - now abandoned.

We don’t do the maths learning that is assigned on a gamified app where they do maths to gain coins to spend. I told the teacher that at 5/6 I felt it wasn’t appropriate, they were indifferent and I got the impression they had to assign something.

We do other activities to reinforce the learning like playing shops with coins, playing board games with dice for number bonds and bought a watch for practicing the time.

Sorry but I think the book thing is awful! My son’s school is a tiny village school but can still find 30 physical books of the same reading level to hand out to the children. Does your school not have a library?