I am shocked they allowed them in school tbh. They were not allowed at school for millennials. Granted phones were new but all the flip phones and such were not allowed at schools.
Born on Europe on 1985. We never had a ban on phones (later “feature phones”). We couldn’t use them in class, same as the game boy, a comic or a Walkman.
Now schools force Chromebooks/ewaste with laughable restrictions.
Wow, no way, I never would have thought )
How were they ever allowed?
I was in school from the transition from no mobiles at all to smart phones. If you got caught with one it was whipped off you.
What next?
What?
Really? Slippery slope argument?
This is a good thing, take it
The “study” is that they asked teachers, “Hey, how’s it been going?” and the teachers answered, “I feel like my students are paying attention more now.”
Polling professionals and experts on their opinions is perfectly reasonable to publish as a preliminary study on a subject
It’s a sensible first step.
Who better to poll than teachers for this type of study? They are the ones in the trenches and can gauge the results.
Yeah, like, if you’re just gonna ask someone, they’d be the ones to ask.
At my middle school, we also banned smartphones throughout the whole building. You were meant to either leave yours at home or put it in your locker when you got there. It’s a lot easier to chat with people during the breaks when they’re not face-down in their phone screen.
Have the iPads and laptops not been collected?
They were always collected when not in use. We don’t get personal devices, we either go to the computer room, where every screen can be seen by the teacher at once a la panopticon, or we get a trolley full of laptops that we hand in at the end of the lesson. You can also BYOD that isn’t a smartphone, so long as you don’t use it during lesson time when the teacher doesn’t permit it.
Thank you, now it’s clear. Our phones were taken away, but half the class was staring at their tablets )
Who would have thought?
