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Study finds smartphone bans in Dutch schools improved focus

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Submitted ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨Davriellelouna@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨technology@lemmy.world⁩

https://www.reuters.com/technology/study-finds-smartphone-bans-dutch-schools-improved-focus-2025-07-04/

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  • zapzap@lemmings.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The “study” is that they asked teachers, “Hey, how’s it been going?” and the teachers answered, “I feel like my students are paying attention more now.”

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    • slackassassin@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Who better to poll than teachers for this type of study? They are the ones in the trenches and can gauge the results.

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      • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        You shouldn’t poll anyone, instead look at test results. If there is better focus, it’ll improve learning outcomes like test scores, graduation rates, and reduces instances of cheating. IMO, if we poll anyone, it should be parents about how much assistance they give their kids (i.e. are they filling in the gaps in their education less?).

        It’s nice that teachers think kids are paying more attention, but that only matters if kids are learning more.

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      • zapzap@lemmings.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Yeah, like, if you’re just gonna ask someone, they’d be the ones to ask.

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      • MITM0@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Teachers can’t guage worth a damn

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      • ClusterBomb@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Yeah, except science does not work like that. 😐

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    • Fredthefishlord@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Polling professionals and experts on their opinions is perfectly reasonable to publish as a preliminary study on a subject

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      • DreamlandLividity@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Sure, but it is not a study general public, like us on lemmy, should care about.

        Yet you can already see people calling for phone bans…

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      • zapzap@lemmings.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        It’s a sensible first step.

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  • RobotZap10000@feddit.nl ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    At my middle school, we also banned smartphones throughout the whole building. You were meant to either leave yours at home or put it in your locker when you got there. It’s a lot easier to chat with people during the breaks when they’re not face-down in their phone screen.

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    • romantired@shibanu.app ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Have the iPads and laptops not been collected?

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      • RobotZap10000@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        They were always collected when not in use. We don’t get personal devices, we either go to the computer room, where every screen can be seen by the teacher at once a la panopticon, or we get a trolley full of laptops that we hand in at the end of the lesson. You can also BYOD that isn’t a smartphone, so long as you don’t use it during lesson time when the teacher doesn’t permit it.

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  • LovableSidekick@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    So they’re saying removing distractions improves focus? Woah dude, spoiler warning!

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  • Glasgow@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    How were they ever allowed?

    I was in school from the transition from no mobiles at all to smart phones. If you got caught with one it was whipped off you.

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    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      At my school, they only cared if you used it, and you’d be forced to put it away if caught. A lot of my friends had phones, but they weren’t allowed to use them in class, and it was treated like any other gadget like a gameboy.

      I don’t believe in bans (kids can use them between classes), but I also believe kids shouldn’t use any devices in class.

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    • romantired@shibanu.app ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      What next?

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      • Glasgow@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        What?

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      • blarghly@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Next they pay attention and learn algebra

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      • phoenixz@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Really? Slippery slope argument?

        This is a good thing, take it

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  • oh_@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I am shocked they allowed them in school tbh. They were not allowed at school for millennials. Granted phones were new but all the flip phones and such were not allowed at schools.

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    • Railcar8095@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Born on Europe on 1985. We never had a ban on phones (later “feature phones”). We couldn’t use them in class, same as the game boy, a comic or a Walkman.

      Now schools force Chromebooks/ewaste with laughable restrictions.

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      • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I’m absolutely in favor of schools disallowing use of phones in class, but I’m against them being banned. If kids want to use them between classes, that’s fine, as long as they don’t use them in class.

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    • Vinstaal0@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      They where in NL though, you just wheren’t allowed to have them in class. But a lot of people here cycle to school and sometimes though roads that aren’t that safe so in that case it was handy to have a mobile phone to call with.

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    • FallenGrove@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I was super shocked when I saw kids using their phones and laptops in class. When I was in school, the moment your phone went off it was confiscated and you had to pay to get it back at the end of the day. It created this culture amongst the kids that no matter who you were, if your phone went off, people will have coughing fits and make noise to cover it up. Super funny every time it happened too.

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  • ter_maxima@jlai.lu ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    As a 1998 French Zoomer, they were never allowed in class, and only allowed at recess in high school.

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  • Amoxtli@thelemmy.club ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Who would have thought?

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  • romantired@shibanu.app ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Wow, no way, I never would have thought )

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  • interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    With nothing else but the blank walls and the cruel clock now students have nowhere else to turn to to pass the time but listening to teacher blab his time-filling spiel. If they’re very lucky, the students might learn a single thing that matters before days end, but of course that remains exceedingly unlikely.

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