“Students easily bypass content filters for games or watch YouTube on district devices. [SCHOOL NAME] allows the Gemini chrome extension which means students regularly tell AI to complete an assignment for them. Even paper assignments are easy to take pictures of and use llms to complete. The honors kids maintain their ability to learn but I see the rest of the kids actively losing skills in the past 4 years”

“The students behavior changes once the chrome books are out. They need more redirecting to stay on task. They do straight to games or youtube. It is hard to get them to stop and to close the laptops. Access to inappropriate content concerns me the most. Secondly, I worry about students not developing critical thinking skills by asking Google everything. Last but most importantly, many students teachers cannot compete with the dopamine drip the computers bring to the classroom”

“Students are always looking for unblocked games, using Google to cheat, using Google Docs to "chat" (they think we don't know) or cyber bully, using their Chromebook to disrupt with noise or blaring video, overuse of YouTube. It's used inappropriately to placate emotionally disturbed students or students with autism”

“A common issue we have in my building is student misuse of technology. These include emailing each other concerning things, or playing games on their chromebook during instruction, etc. which is impacting attention span, resilience (coping w/uncomfortable academic demands through distraction via their chromebook), and ability to problem solve (they are able to google anything).”

“Although kids enjoy using games like Quizizz and Kahoot, technology has become so addicting that I really am against one to one devices. Students are so addicted. They don't know how to interact with other students or problem solve with each other. They also have no learning endurance or ability to work with grit!”

“distraction: students opening tabs for non-school activity

addictive nature of tech platforms

use of AI to write without understanding

danger of inappropriate content on websites

loss of privacy to tech companies”

“Chromebooks are sometimes used to babysit students. In terms of classroom management, students are quiet and look engaged when they are on a screen, but are they actually learning? I think parents would be very upset if they knew just how long students in my school are on a Chromebook. In my school, the primary use of a Chromebook is for video game playing. Many students just do not have the discipline to stay off addictive video games, and they are not adequately blocked or filtered. Any free minute a student gets, they want to pop open their Chromebooks to game. Also, at lunch, there are entire tables of students with their heads buried in a screen.”

“Technology is overused and taking away from the fundamental skills like handwriting, organizing, in person communication, etc. Students use technology in ways it isn’t intended to be used (I.e. games, apps, social media, etc.)”

“My major concern is when students are using devices for non-educational, or curriculum purposes. Whether that is their own cell phone or additional district issued device. Furthermore, if it’s a district issue device teachers absolutely must have monitoring software access, so that they can strictly limit what students are accessing during the day. If we can be confident that they are using the district purchased educational platforms than I see very little problem with it, So long as they aren’t, spending massive amounts of time on devices, instead of giving hands on indirect learning from their teacher and peers”