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Bethlehem Area School District recommends limiting K–5 Chromebook take-home as Freemansburg pilots schoolwide 'digital detox'
Summary
District staff recommended that Chromebooks generally not go home with K–5 students beginning next school year, citing research on quality of screen use; Freemansburg Elementary ran a weeklong low-tech pilot and will survey families and staff about the effort.
Dr. Leeson said the district is preparing recommendations to limit routine Chromebook take-home for grades K–5, saying the change is aimed at prioritizing high-quality instructional use over passive device time. "We are recommending that we do not take Chromebooks home from K to 5," Dr. Leeson said.
The recommendation is part of a broader instructional-technology update that reviewed the district's 1:1 device rollout and research on screen time. Staff described prior district planning, a 2018 screen-time statement and the view that not all screen time is equal — instructional uses such as formative…
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