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Banning them from use at any time would not be a great thing in my opinion, but banning them in class is quite normal. We were never allowed our "dumbphones" i

Banning them from use at any time would not be a great thing in my opinion, but banning them in class is quite normal. We were never allowed our "dumbphones" in class either though, which made us try to 'sneakily' text. I think students will try this with their smartphones as well.

tenryuu 8y ago
Well, they've been banned "during all teaching activity" since 2010 according to multiple news sites. This new law makes it cover all of the school hours
piokoch 8y ago
Smartphones at school are really, really bad idea and they should be banned, here are the reasons (real stuff I saw with my own eyes): - Kids play games during the break and that really affects their ability to concentrate during the lesson - they think about how to "move to the next level" or "kill the enemy", not on the lesson subject - Kids don't interact normally, they sit separately looking at their phones - funnily some teachers actually loved that aspect - kids were silent, not running, no shouting during the breaks. I believe that direct human-to-human contact is valuable and can't be replaced with chatting on some app or sharing pictures. - School has no control over the content kids view on their smartphones, so if one kid views porn and shows it to others, the school can be on fire as exposing kids to porn is a crime (at least in some countries) and school stuff is responsible for what is happening at school. - Various "minor" nasty behaviors, for instance kids whose parents can't afford smartphone have to pay those who has smartphones to play games (one can say that it is nothing bad, but I don't like that).
- d33 8y ago
  Is this your intuition or do you have studies to back this up and also show that disadvantages outweigh the advantages?
  - godDLL 8y ago
    France is doing your study right now. And you have control in the U. S. Give it some four years or so.
- beefheart 8y ago
  I'm not sure about you, but there were no cellphones in my school days, so we got our distractions by chatting or doodling or doing virtually anything else except focusing on class. Kids don't concentrate during lessons, they never have. Well, maybe today things are different when kids are all drugged up with Adderal and Ritalin, and any minor disturbance causes a SWAT team to show up.

tenryuu 8y ago

Well, they've been banned "during all teaching activity" since 2010 according to multiple news sites. This new law makes it cover all of the school hours

piokoch 8y ago

Smartphones at school are really, really bad idea and they should be banned, here are the reasons (real stuff I saw with my own eyes): - Kids play games during the break and that really affects their ability to concentrate during the lesson - they think about how to "move to the next level" or "kill the enemy", not on the lesson subject - Kids don't interact normally, they sit separately looking at their phones - funnily some teachers actually loved that aspect - kids were silent, not running, no shouting during the breaks. I believe that direct human-to-human contact is valuable and can't be replaced with chatting on some app or sharing pictures. - School has no control over the content kids view on their smartphones, so if one kid views porn and shows it to others, the school can be on fire as exposing kids to porn is a crime (at least in some countries) and school stuff is responsible for what is happening at school. - Various "minor" nasty behaviors, for instance kids whose parents can't afford smartphone have to pay those who has smartphones to play games (one can say that it is nothing bad, but I don't like that).

d33 8y ago
Is this your intuition or do you have studies to back this up and also show that disadvantages outweigh the advantages?
- godDLL 8y ago
  France is doing your study right now. And you have control in the U. S. Give it some four years or so.
beefheart 8y ago
I'm not sure about you, but there were no cellphones in my school days, so we got our distractions by chatting or doodling or doing virtually anything else except focusing on class. Kids don't concentrate during lessons, they never have. Well, maybe today things are different when kids are all drugged up with Adderal and Ritalin, and any minor disturbance causes a SWAT team to show up.