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Follow and join us in our effort to support intentional tech use in Lower Merion School District! 📚✏️👩‍🏫

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Request your free Pencils Over Pixels lawn sign on our website - link in bio. Go birds. 🦅💚

#pencilsoverpixels #lmsd #screensdownpencilsup #gobirds

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Great @nytimes investigation into how social media companies aim to get young users addicted. Spoiler: it included using apps during school. Yet another reason to support us: we requested that LMSD implement a bell-to-bell ban, before it becomes state law

https://t.co/biWHMRKDf5

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Elizabeth Lovett, Lower Merion mom, Penn prof, architect, and “computer nerd” described apps students use as the “junk food of curriculums”.

Lovett says we will pull 1:1 devices out of schools the same way we took lead out of gas. Let’s lead the way, #LMSD.

#pencilsoverpixels

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Which learning experience would you rather have for your kindergartner?

One where your tiny human is given a 1:1 iPad or one where they hold and manipulate real magnetic letters, use crayons, and go explore the great outdoors?

We choose Sunnyside Daycare over Wall-E too.

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@fortunemag highlights how “techlash” grows in education, noting our efforts in Lower Merion, as well as those in LA and VA, to reduce the reliance on screens and Edtech in schools. #lmsd

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Please read Pencils Over Pixels’ letter to the LMSD Board and Superintendent Ranelli. We remain optimistic that together, we can find the best solution for our school district’s kids.

#pencilsoverpixels #lmsd #screensdownpencilsup #teachersovertech #screentimebalance

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Register now for “The Missing Voice, Teachers on Children, Screens, and School” on June 3 at 830 pm at https://t.co/jR0U8Hk9JI

Teachers and school leaders see every day how screens and EdTech affect attention, learning, behavior, social development, and school life.

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As reported by @nbcnews, Randi Weingarten, the president of the American Federation of Teachers called for screen time limits in school in a speech titled “Devices Down, Eyes Up, Hands On” and we👏are👏here👏for👏it👏.

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During his papal encyclical today, Pope Leo said the following and we couldn’t agree more. #pencilsoverpixels #screensdownpencilsup #lmsd

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Thank you @BroadAndLiberty for highlighting this topic and Pencil Over Pixel’s work ✏️

#pencilsoverpixels #lmsd #screensdownpencilsup

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Put your readers on for this one folks and zoom on in: a total of $737,750.52 for books and periodicals. And a shocking total of $4,096,322.64 for “technology related” supplies and fees. 🤯

#screensdownpencilsup #teachersovertech #pencilsoverpixels #lmsd

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Report found here: https://t.co/OUtSsR3Dwe

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New Surgeon General advisory includes recs on how schools can help reduce the harms of screen use, including many already suggested by LMSD parents during board and community mtgs - take a read.

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@KYWNewsradio Thanks for highlighting this issue!

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Parents in the Lower Merion School District are protesting what they call “rampant” use of technology in classrooms. They want to be able to opt their kids out of using Chromebooks and laptops in school.

More here: https://t.co/hVJ05uE9A4

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You wouldn’t go to a restaurant or watch a movie with 1.2 stars. You def wouldn’t give your child’s personal details away to a complete stranger to use in unknown ways. So why did LMSD sign an agreement costing nearly $1M to use this program on our kids?
#pencilsoverpixels

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We hear ya, Rosy. We hope the school board did too.

#pencilsoverpixels #lmsd #screensdownpencilsup #teachersovertech

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Millie, a first grader in LMSD, shares her thoughts on using 1:1 devices to do math in school. 📏

#pencilsoverpixels #screensdownpencilsup #lmsd #edtechrevolution

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Congratulations again to the teachers, principals, and support staff who were recognized at yesterday’s General Business Meeting! 👏 The community is lucky to have you.

Please read on for Pencils Over Pixels’ thoughts regarding the work that lies ahead. #lmsd #pencilsoverpixels

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@PhillyInquirer An increasingly organized parent group? We’ll take it 💁‍♀️ Thank you Maddie Hanna for your continued coverage on this topic.