I had her eventually just take screen shots and send them to the printer. From there? She would fill in her answers, take a picture of the work, and then drop the image into the power point knockoff.
We got a note from the Principal about how "printing" was not supported.
Whatever.
So slowly seeing how tablets or laptops are replacing all that paper I'm envy those kids. But at the same time I see the dangers, how kids are addicted to the mobiles and the Internet; school should set such devices to be tools and not potential form of entertainment as much it's only possible.
* frame rate sucks too much for tik-tok to be any good
* easier on the eyes
* useless for doing homework on, so the kids go back to paper where they have to show their work anyway.
I dunno this might be the way. Instead of artificially limiting platforms, let the platform's natural limitations do the work.
Many months later we got a stern letter that yt had to be blocked because students weren’t using it for assignments. Who could have predicted such a thing? :-P
It all started during covid too so I had very limited ability to say no.
Battle #1 is combining the complexity and abundance of electronic devices with the time, dedication, and cleverness of kids requires (literally) writing a bug free operating system & application ecosystem as well as nearly every school employee having a completely accurate understanding of how to manage them. The goal here is never to get to 100% compliance but to add friction to noncompliance so it's easier for workers to do their job and get through the day.
Battle #2 (the part these kinds of bans focus on) is on setting expectations for when electronic devices are allowed at all. Whether or not students always comply isn't even the goal of this battle, it's all about making the problem clear and swift to deal with: "I saw your phone during school hours so you're caught and it's confiscated" isn't about preventing kids from being sneaky, it's about making the enforcement easy.