UNESCO calls for a global smartphone ban in schools
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The UN agency said that even being close to a smartphone has been linked with students being distracted in the classroom, which in turn causes poorer student performances.
  • igorlogius@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Just banning seems like an incomplete strategie and while i think a couple of hours of no usage doenst hurt (helps even), i think schools need to also teach kids to establish resonable and healthy behaviours with digital services and devices.

    • explodicle@local106.comEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Sure, but then the teacher needs 110% support from both the administration and the parents when the time cost of teaching this particular behavior is significant. If the parents are uncooperative, then they can get fucked.

      Teacher says no? End of story. The parents can take it up with their kid on their own time. The kids will learn healthy behavior more quickly once they see the policy has teeth.

  • faintedheart@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Here no school students are allowed to take even a basic phone. It’s been like that since the launch of phones.

    • dzaffaires@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      1 year ago

      I was surprised to find a few years ago that phones were allowed in classes. It makes absolutely no sense to me. What is the positive side to letting them in?

  • Rooty@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    1 year ago

    So now that we have removed the distraction of cell phones, we can get kids to focus on - what exactly? A curriculum that favors rote memorization, where children cannot even relieve themselves without an authority figure allowing them to do so, where they are forced to sit still for hours to better prepare them for mind numbing, pointless office jobs, and where we can teach them skill that were obsolete 30 years ago, and will be even more once they hit the job market?

    Abolish kid prisons.