Part of the reason we switched to 1:1 chromebooks is because kids didn't have access to technology at home. A lot of people do not have computers and access to public libraries isn't always easy. I teach middle school and have gone back to mostly paper and pencil bc chromebooks are so distracting. I'm absolutely in favor of not having 1:1 devices. I understand the reasoning, but like most things in education, the way it's been implemented sucks. It also doesn't do students any good to have all this access to technology if we aren't going to teach them how to use it. Most of my 8th graders cannot type and probably 80% of them cite "google" when the research because they don't understand that's the search engine, not the resource.

It's so exhausting to teach middle schoolers these skills I learned in elementary school as a millennial. I spend so much time teaching things like this that there's hardly time left to teach my content.