The new study on school cellphone bans found that phone use dropped, but test scores didn’t improve and behavior worsened at first. Phones give kids constant stimulation and reward. Schools took that away, but didn’t make class more engaging in its place. When you remove something kids want to do, they don’t suddenly focus….they just look for something else to do.
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Yet the people who advocate such policies never point out that so many schools are just deadly dull and not very intellectually stimulating? Often what is on the phone is in fact more interesting and sometimes more instructive as well, even if the students do worse in terms of the standards set by the school.
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It’s the curriculum, folks.
You want to get tech out of classrooms and books back in: the curriculum and school operations need to go backward. To the faraway years of 2016-17.
Not impossible. But identify the right obstacles.