Unesco calls for global ban on smartphones in schools • Hacker News Board

Re: Unesco calls for global ban on smartphones in schools

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Post by carlosjobim » Fri, Jul 28, 2023, 10:15 PM UTC

greatwave1 wrote: post #251

carlosjobim wrote: post #230

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Instead of focusing on your own point, look at the answer I gave you. You seem to make up an image in your mind that I'm disregarding the child's own personality, when I haven't even touched on that aspect. Fight a real battle instead of an imaginary battle.

> look at the answer I gave you You literally didn't give me one, what on earth are you talking about. > You seem to make up an image in your mind that I'm disregarding the child's own personality I don't know where you're getting that I've 'made an image up in my mind'.... I asked you a question about how you weighted your child's input / freedom when it comes to technology, and you've done nothing but deflect lmao.…

Maybe close the HN tab and go out get a breath of fresh air if you can't tell the difference between man and machine?

Re: Unesco calls for global ban on smartphones in schools

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Post by merb » Sat, Jul 29, 2023, 5:10 PM UTC

joombaga wrote: post #223

merb wrote: post #211

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for diabetes sensors you need to have a phone with android or ios to use the app which sends data to parents/doctors (stuff like dexcom)

Most of them have a receiver option too. Dexcom does. They're another cost though, and quite expensive for what they do (~$400 for the G7 receiver). They don't have Wi-Fi though, so they can't upload data (at least for Dexcom).

well in germany you get the dexcom "for free", but I'm not so sure about the reciever. my sister basically just bought an older used iphone for my niche and used that which was way below the price point and my sister also wanted to know the datapoints (and sometimes needed to sent them to a doctor) so the phone was basically a must.

Re: Unesco calls for global ban on smartphones in schools

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Post by Wowfunhappy » Sun, Aug 06, 2023, 4:00 PM UTC

retrac wrote: post #66

bgribble wrote: post #42

My kid just graduated from a NYC high school that had a complete ban on phones in school. The kids checked in their phones at the front desk on the way in and got them back when leaving. It was by no means watertight -- many (most?) kids had a "burner" phone that was dead or broken or whatever that they turned in (because nobody would believe a highschooler who said they didn't have their phone with them lol) and the…

> My 12 year old can take the subway to school by himself, but ONLY if he has a phone in case he ends up in some wackadoodle situation where his train has gone express or is on another train line and he needs to call his lifeline (me!) to figure out how to work it out. I was taking the subway to school by myself at 12 in Toronto (maybe a slightly less intense city, to be fair). I'm not sure about NYC but in Toronto i…

I'd suggest a simpler algorithm. Just ask the transit worker what to do—all NYC stations have one, if not in the uptown entrance than in the downtown one—and do whatever they say.