A Dallas ISD elementary school has embraced kids' love of screen time and used it to boost learning.
"During the summer I'd be on my game all day and my parents would be like, 'get off of it,'" said Juan Delgado, a fourth grader at the Hogg New Tech Center in Oak Cliff.
It's an elementary school where there are screens just about everywhere you look. And while some research tells us screens aren't always the best for our kids' brains, well, these kids seem to be giving themselves a workout while learning about angles.Get DFW local news, weather forecasts and entertainment stories to your inbox.Abdul and his classmate Damian Torres were working independently on a 70-inch monitor but were able to quickly and easily help one another if they stumbled.
At the same time, the same problems and same lesson are being worked on in a small group of students sitting with the teacher, and at desks all around the classroom for kids like Juan Delgado who prefers to work alone without distractions."This is an acute angle because it's less than 90 degrees," Delgado explained. We asked if it's more than 90 degrees, what is it? Without hesitation, he said,"it's an obtuse.
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