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- technology@lemmy.world
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- technology@lemmy.world
I personally think that responsible smartphone use should be learned and practiced, rather than outright banning them.
I think this shows that adults are terribly addicted to their devices and think if they can’t stop using them, children won’t either. They certainly can’t teach how to use phones responsibly if they can’t do it themselves. Unfortunately for children the result is an outright ban.
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Mobiles should not be in a classroom.
They are distracting, rarely help with actual learning, and are a source of anxiety. Children do not need to be contactable 24/7. The supposed pros are all bs too. Learn to use a computer, sure, laptops are a different matter. Much easier to police, much easier to manage, much more helpful to learning, and most skills transferrable to a mobile too. Have online courses, excellent! But rarely at primary and secondary level education will a phone actually be beneficial. Long overdue for a ban.
Long overdue for a digital overhaul too. Paperless offices are here, where’s the paperless schools? (Paperless offices are never paperless either btw, plenty of stuff still printed, physical books read, and things written down)
Like it or not, smartphones and the internet are now a part of everyday life. Digital literacy is now as important as traditional literacy. Pretending that this shift has not happened, because education systems cannot adapt to it, is absurd.
The problems that are claimed to be caused by smartphones in class seem to be more down to to a lack of discipline and engagement. I went to school before any kind of mobile phone was a thing. There were still plenty of potential ways for students to goof off, yet teachers by and large managed to keep us focused and behaving.
Smartphones are orders of magnitude more distracting than whatever existed before. Also, you can teach digital literacy all the while forbidding smartphone use outside of class, there is no real opposition there.
Smartphones are a different league of distracting. Apps like social media are literally tuned to be as psychologically distracting as possible.
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There are plenty of spaces where alcohol use or being drunk are not allowed, does that mean that alcohol usage in these spaces is running rampant? No. Because there’s a difference between a complete societal ban and restrictions in certain areas.
You could easily ban phone usage during classes and allow kids to use their phones during breaks, with the punishment for using them during class being confiscation until the end of the school day. You can teach digital literacy and responsible usage of technology and/or the internet without kids having their phones in their hands when you teach it.
Apps are made to be addictive, it’s understandable that kids could have issues concentrating on things that seem less interesting when an entertaining distraction is right at their fingertips.
Taking away the most versatile and most commonly used tool shouldn’t be the way to go.
If we keep up these obsolete paradigms, students will be forced to stick with ineffective handwritings off whiteboards. Their documents go to the trash after school since the serve no purpose anymore and they use up far too much space.
Instead, students should make excessive use of their digital helpers - as we already do at work or for all the other daily tasks.
clearly shows the tendency of people to ban things instead of finding a fix that isn’t lazy like, for instance, actually good digital education.
So, should guns be allowed in schools, along with “good gun education”?
Smartphones serve no real purpose in school. Why allow this very problematic device that is not conducive to learning and tends to cause problems outside the class, too?
that’s a really moronic comparison ain’t no way you’re equating smartphones to guns. we use phones for class pretty often
