Comment on France to ban students from keeping smartphones in schools
AFC1886VCC@reddthat.com 11 months agoBoring lessons are pretty big distractors. I seen kids fall asleep and daydream long before smartphones were even a thing. Make learning fun and the kids will engage. Confiscating their possessions is a hostile move that never goes down well.
day-dreaming isn’t intrinsically bad. People do need time to think about stuff, and have their mind drift from topic to topic. Some modern teaching practices advocate deliberate “brain breaks” for students.
The issue with phones isn’t so much that students are sometimes off task, but rather that the phone consumes their attention entirely. It uses up the students’ useful concentration as well as their ‘rest’ time.
My classrooms banned phones so I played games on my graphing calculator or did the old fashioned drawing.
It’s necessary. Phones are far worse than prior to phones, and I’ve seen both sides of it.
Boring lessons is a fact of life. People need to realize that not all education can be interesting. Sometimes you gotta suck it up, sit down, and learn. And I say this as someone with crippling adhd
explodicle@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
It’s not enough that they need to buy their own supplies, get paid next to nothing, and deal with angry parents over every F. Now they need to be infotainment competing for attention with anything a kid can find on their cell phone.