Krishnan questions Chromebooks going home with K-2 students
Krishnan raises concerns about K-2 students bringing Chromebooks home, opening up screen time negotiations at home. Giunta acknowledges limited need for daily device use at home but notes remote learning days require device readiness.
Okay.
Now, I know there's a difference between K through 2 and 3 to 5.
Focusing on K through 2 for a minute, no one-to-one devices are allowed.
The policy was silent, though, on are students permitted to bring their Chromebooks home with them, which raises a number of issues.
One, just they're very little, carrying those laptops back and forth every day.
But also, once that's introduced at home, it opens a new door and a new set of negotiations over whether to use those laptops, whether to play on them, under the guise of...
eyes of learning, which our creative kindergartners through second graders are always citing as well.
So what is the DOE's policy for K through 2?
If there's no one-to-one learning, are Chromebooks permitted to come home with students?
We would imagine that, of course, children should not need their computers on a daily, their individual Chromebooks on a daily basis at all.
We also want our kids to know, like, we will have a remote day.
We might have a pivots remote, whether it's weather or some other event.
We're also planning for a remote day on election day.
So we do want to leverage opportunities for students to be able to understand how to access their Google Classrooms, how to access homework that might be posted digitally.
And we also know that in our schools, there might be an opportunity not for one-to-one device, but, you know,
we have our digital library where kids might be pulling up, a teacher might pull up a book and a kid can read along with the story.
But I think we'll see limited back and forth of our littlest carrying our laptops every day.