As a greek I have one thing to say:
You use phones in classrooms?
As a Bangladeshi I have the same thing to say. This is even unthinkable here. Not even students will find it appropriate here.
So do teachers. It still doesn’t stop it.
Regardless of what I think about cellphone usage in the classroom. I don’t think this is something that UNESCO should have saying in. And definitely not be able to ban. Nor do I belive government should have saying in. This just should be the decision of each school on how they want to approach this.
When school are publicly funded you, naturally, get govt opinions on the matter.
I do agree with you. I think it’s a decision that should be made at the lowest level possible.
Outside of subjects they are interested in, learning about anything can be quite boring. Even if it’s a necessity, it’s obvious why a child ends up being distracted by an object essentially designed to be their interest.
The problem with banning these devices in classrooms is that unless you enforce it in any meaningful way, it ends up just being a game of hide and seek with minimal consequences to them (short term at least).
UNESCO calling students to stop using their phones is even less effective than the teachers themselves trying to do it, and we already know how that turns out.
Definitely support the ban, even with laptops back in the uni days it was too easy to get distracted, I can’t imagine smartphones now with all the attention-grabbing apps on them.
Well I, an utterly insignificant individual, don’t.
