France bans smartphone use in schools

Post by lostlogin » Thu, Aug 02, 2018, 6:33 PM UTC

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> Our school also had an 'upstairway' and a 'downstairway' though where you'd get yelled out for going down the upstair way and have to lap the building to get to the downstairway though so they weren't really about reason. It may seem like no reason to you, but I've witnessed a much higher flow of people when the direction is set and nobody goes "against the current". This is one mistake I made the first time I went…

Yeah but when you have 3min to get to your next class (or you get detention), you can't run, hallways are crowded, and you have to walk across the building to get to your class that's right downstairs it feels a bit kafkaesque. We also weren't allowed to talk during lunch for half of it.

Post by kolinko » Thu, Aug 02, 2018, 6:40 PM UTC

pwaivers wrote: post #4

> “In reality, the ban has already been made. I don’t know a single teacher in this country that allows the use of phones in class.” Not allowing kids to use smartphones during class is a huge difference than not allowing them at all in school. Cell phones are huge part of people's lives, whether they like it or not.

Post by Yoric » Thu, Aug 02, 2018, 7:07 PM UTC

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Yoric wrote: post #5

To be clear: phones have been banned in most French schools for years, but faculty had no legal authorization to actually touch the phone or look at it to ensure that it was off. I haven't read the actual text of the law, but I believe that it gives faculty the authorization to do just that.

I guess this is different for private and religious schools. Our son's catholic school had no problem confiscating phones, 3DS's, or card games. To take them home them and the parent would need to pick it up from the headmaster's office.

Post by skate22 » Thu, Aug 02, 2018, 7:19 PM UTC

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In college if i was goofing off on my phone during lecture I would likely pay for it on an exam. You could try silently writing down which days you saw a student on their phone & which days you taught the specific subject material. Then when students get it wrong on a test that you grade you can add a comment along the lines of "this was covered on day X when you were on your phone" You would also then have a nice re…

> Then when students get it wrong on a test that you grade you can add a comment along the lines of "this was covered on day X when you were on your phone" In my experience, by the time you realized you failed the exam, it's often too late to start learning all the things you didn't think you needed to learn. Which is also one of the reasons for which I hated exams as a teacher.

Post by skate22 » Thu, Aug 02, 2018, 7:21 PM UTC

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In college if i was goofing off on my phone during lecture I would likely pay for it on an exam. You could try silently writing down which days you saw a student on their phone & which days you taught the specific subject material. Then when students get it wrong on a test that you grade you can add a comment along the lines of "this was covered on day X when you were on your phone" You would also then have a nice re…

This is petty and time-consuming.