Strict bans on mobile phones in schools have “close to zero” impact on student learning and show no evidence of improvements in attendance or online bullying, a study has found.
Researchers at US universities including Stanford and Duke looked at nearly 1,800 US schools where students’ phones were kept in locked pouches and found little or no differences in outcomes compared with similar schools without strict bans.
The report concluded that among schools instituting a ban: “For academic achievement, average effects on test scores are consistently close to zero.”
The results will come as a disappointment to teaching unions and campaigners in England who backed the government’s recent move to restrict the use of mobile phones in schools. A ban is likely to come into force next year.
“Hating school made kids want to look at their phones.” thats just 100% false. Hating work is not why adults look at their phones nor is it hating public transit or hating driving. 100% phones are a distraction in their own right outside of all exterior effects.
When I like what I’m doing I don’t get the urge to look at my phone.
maybe but as I replied to another then its that people hate life because they are on them all the time. Smartphones or some apps are addictive.
Um, ya sure about that?
Yes, phones are distracting, but distraction is entirely about competing levels of interest, and phones are more interesting than most people’s work or commute, and certainly than modern classrooms.
im 100% sure because people are doing it no matter what they are otherwise doing it. So its either they are on their phones because they hate life or smartphones or at least certain apps on them are addictive. its plain to see they are addictive although I will grant that life sucks especially now. Still. the phones be an addiction.
Addiction usually forms around something that is used for escaping one’s problems. True here as well.
And yes, most people are unhappy in life, right now especially.