Students have displayed mixed receptions to the new rule, with some welcoming it, agreeing with the government that phones can often become a distraction in class, while others believe the new measure displays a lack of trust in pupils. #EuropeNews
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.
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