UNESCO calls for schools around the world to ban smartphones in the classroom
UNESCO calls for schools around the world to ban smartphones in the classroom
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.
We need to teach children to live both with and without technology; to take what they need from the abundance of information, but to ignore what is not necessary; to let technology support, but never supplant human interactions in teaching and learning.
And how are you going to do that if you collect their phones at the beginning of every day and only allow them to use it when you don't have any influence of their usage?
This seems like such a agist article, it would be immediately shot down if they wanted to collect university students' phones at the beginning of every day.
It's time to start giving children autonomy, respect, and not treating them like something to overprotect or be scared of.
Collecting personal phones and such makes sense if they have devices strictly for school. They could even benefit from having time set aside as they grow to learn how to program the tech themselves. Structure out time for group activities for younger ages, sharing one tablet between like 4 kids. Monitor how they're using the devices between the school days and make sure they aren't adding shit that's distracting from the lessons.
I say collect everyone's phones at the beginning of class. Students are here to study, teachers are here to teach.
Put that crap away and pull out a pencil, damn it.
Ignoring the capabilities kids have by denying them lessons on technology could be a bit detrimental to their potential imo. There's a middle ground that I offered in a response below
Teaching a kid there is a time and place to use their devices is educational. Confiscating personal property to limit access is just creating problems.
Also, who is paying for the $2000 smart phone that got cracked/lost/stolen while confiscated?
As I said in a comment above, good luck not getting sued by the parents during a school shooting / emergency and their kid cannot contact them.
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.
Ah yes, let’s do away with schools altogether because they could stand some improvement here and there, so the next generation is completely dysfunctional from the get go and society collapses a few decades earlier
Schools are completely worthless, we need to reinvision them from the start, we're just using them as shitty daycare right now.
Just to start with we desperately need federalized school management, a bunch of barely literate parents shouldn't be the ones deciding what their kids learn, that's why the schools I went to in the south were very delicate when it came to history during the Civil war or science, really in general.
Beyond this we need a university board to step in with expectations on what a child should know before college, and everyone should build a curriculum backwards through the grades to fulfill them. These expectations should be raised over time.
But we don't want that, we want a daycare and political football/voting bloc because the people running the schools are generally the idiots produced by it.
It seems you attended a really bad school.
What's your suggestion? Make them work in coal mines?
I'm here for it. Kids these days have such short attention spans.
Everyone has short attention spans, not just children. This is a systematic issue(and has been one for nearly 30 years) related to how people get their dopamine fixes.
I agree with you.
*systemic
I'm 41 and I zoned out halfway through this comment