How do we work with students who come to us from very traditional, rigid educational systems/schools that do not encourage thinking for oneself? sharing opinions?

Today we couldn't find the other blog posts. We appreciated those who found ours and commented, so our goal today was to reciprocate. None of us knew how to do this, but in our attempt to find other blogs, we did find a blog by a lovely family who had a baby in 2012.

So, we returned to our initial discussion of how to get students to demonstrate what they know, but without technology.

The sixth grade teachers have discussed having a tech free week. How might this look in other grades and other subjects? middle school vs upper school?

Have we lost control of our ability to manage our information? Have we forgotten that we do have choices over whether or not to use tech?

A useful aspect of technology is having audio books for students with special needs. This is something we need to explore as a school perhaps.

Old school sometimes is still good. Books in our hands, writing on the chalk board, bringing people together without a device in between. What happens when students are given "old school" opportunities? What are kids missing when they don't have the chance to do something old school?