Smartphones should've been banned from schools 5-6 years ago. It's too late now. These days kids start tapping smartphone/tablet screens at a really young age. Taking away there smart devices now is like sending them to school blindfolded. Doesn't matter if they use smartphones for work or as a distraction, they're hooked!
France bans smartphone use in schools
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Re: France bans smartphone use in schools
#162My thoughts as a High School teacher: I have tried[1] to allow students to have their phones, teach them to use their phones responsibly, etc. It doesn’t work. They are banned in my class. I’m just a single teacher with basically no budget. I can’t compete with giant corporations that spend millions on design, UX, UI, etc. [1] Also, technically trying to teach kids to use their phones responsibly (or even generically…
No teachers ever taught me as fast as a computer can today. State school are an anachronism.
Can you cite studies showing that unsupervised online education is more effective than supervised/classroom?
Re: France bans smartphone use in schools
#163Earlier quoted context omitted.
Under 15? Not really, can use purely offline sources for that generic material. Good skill as well. Still should have a basic computing class though, perhaps wrapped into a library class.
In my experience all printed material is incomplete, obsolete, or one-sided and frequently all three. That is not to talk about materials that can't be encoded as text, such as instructions and how-tos for whatever the French version of shop-class is. You would propose that students be taught such subjects as the French revolution, based on what materials are available in the school library? How can you even ethicall…
> In my experience all printed material is incomplete, obsolete, or one-sided and frequently all three.
Maybe you should stop reading exclusively tabloids...
On a serious note, a middle schooler writing a report on the founding fathers will have plenty of resources available to them in the school library.
Re: France bans smartphone use in schools
#164Like much of education policy, this seems to help some at the expense of harming others. For the intelligent & motivated, there will be unnecessary boredom during downtime/study hall, potential hatred for learning/school, and other negative effects. For the lackluster students, this policy will help some pay attention to class, learn lessons, and complete work. In general, however, I'd have to say I'm against it. Any…
> widespread banning of freedoms School is compulsory to begin with
That is true.
But good teachers often still try to empower their students to learn on their own.