ah yes, why teach kids to use them responsibly when you can just ban them? that always works great
I feel like “using them responsibly” includes not using them in class
Are you a child/young teen with a completely different brain structure than a mature adult? Do you have already have the media literacy needed to navigate disinfo and toxic content online?
Kids really are a different species, but have predictable development. For every kid that’s responsible enough to have unrestricted device access there’s 50 more who just aren’t mature enough yet. There’s a limit to how much you can coach responsibility into them
Because banning them works better.
If the school wants to teach responsible use, they can provide school-owned phones for use during coursework.
The problem is that if you have a class of 18 students and all of them are looking at their phones during a lecture or while doing practice problems, it is impossible to police behavior by differentiating who is taking notes and who is texting friends, or who is using a calculator app and who is using Wolfram Alpha. It’s much easier to just say “no phones” so the teacher can quickly identify who is taking notes (on paper) or using a calculator (that is a TI 83) versus the students trying to sneakily use their phone under their desk.
Restructuring the education system to not be a day care prison where chidren are desperate to do anything else would work better, but we don’t like it when the day care doesn’t keep our children locked up while we are at work.
No matter what structure they’ll focus on what engages them the most, which is pretty much always going to be the digital dopamine drip feed in their pocket.
Boomer logic
Some US states and local school boards are doing this as well. I believe South Carolina has a law like this going into the upcoming term in August. Students will be allowed to bring devices, but they must be stored during class. One school district is using these little pouches with magnetic locks to which the teachers and admin have the key… so students can keep their devices on their person, but would be unable to access them.
Sadly, one of the more relevant (and understandable) arguments against this trend is parents concerns about being about to get in touch with their child in the event of a school shooting. In active shooter events and lockdowns, many school systems and local governments have been slow to inform parents of the situation… this exacerbates concerns where parents (again, understandably) want to be able to get in touch with their child.
Us Americans live in a hell scape of tragedy and senseless death.
Lol americans could start by solving this riddle of stopping school shootings. But nah just let the kids have bullet proof backpacks and cellphones because they occur so regularly.
But it’s their freedom rights uga uga
That was the farce Americans don’t care about their own dead kids, good luck convincing them to give 2 shits about kids in Gaza.
