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SerperiorThanU posted...

Nope, it's all logical conclusions because your arguments have been juvenile and reductive. You have no evidence that they're a net negative.

Survey: Nearly Half of Students Distracted by Technology
https://www.insidehighered.com/digital-learning/article/2019/07/10/survey-shows-nearly-half-students-distracted-technology

A recent survey found the use of technology in class, such as laptops or phones, for noneducational purposes was distracting to almost half of students, while others surveyed believe technology in the classroom is unavoidable.
The study was published in the Canadian Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning and surveyed 478 students and 36 instructors at the University of Waterloo.
Of the undergraduate students surveyed, 49 percent said the use of technology for reasons not related to class, or off-task use, was distracting to them. However, students generally said theyve used technology for off-task purposes regardless.
Students actually know and realize that the use of technology has a negative impact on people around them when used for off-task purposes like browsing the web, Elena Neiterman, a Waterloo teaching fellow and one of the authors of the study, said. They still feel like [technology] is still necessary when the classes are not engaging enough. Like, for example, being in a large lecture hall or when the professor is what they call boring.
The survey showed the use of social media in a classroom setting had become normalized, and students saw off-task activity less negatively because most students were engaged in some sort of off-task activity at some point during class. Neiterman said the survey revealed some students felt that to allow for a brief distraction when they felt bored would help them feel more engaged for the rest of the class period. Most students surveyed said they saw it as their right to use the technology in class.
They felt it would be useful for them to maybe do their own thing for a couple minutes and then come back to the class, Neiterman said. [Students] also felt if they were too overwhelmed by the information they would get off the topic and go browse or text somebody and take a mental break.
In particular, the study focused on the perspectives on instructors regarding technology use. While teachers and students were found to have similarly positive views on the use of technology for class-related activities, teachers obviously held negative views about off-task activities. Sixty-eight percent of instructors said they felt bothered by student cellphone use, however, only 32 percent were bothered by laptop use.
Among the instructors surveyed, general methods of dealing with technology use in class included ignoring and tolerating it, minimizing it by explaining to students the detriments, or utilizing it in classroom activity. Twenty-three percent of instructors surveyed said they incorporated technology into the curriculum. Many instructors surveyed said students using off-task technology had become more brazen, which was seen as insulting.
The survey also asked respondents to consider who was responsible for limiting off-task use in the classroom, and some students felt it was the instructors job to make the class engaging enough to deincentivize off-task technology use. Many instructors dismissed the idea by pointing out it would be an uphill battle for any professor to compete with a social media network designed to attract attention.
A study released last year found a causal link between lower test scores and the uses of cellphones and laptops. The study suggested students were wrong to believe they could divide their attention between technology and class lectures, as technology impairs their ability to retain information from the class.
Neiterman said instructors surveyed recognized the fact that technology wasnt going anywhere, particularly because of its use in increasing accessibility. Nonetheless, many instructors who felt negatively about off-task use said they would continue to try to inform their students about the negatives of divided attention.
Instructors really felt difficulties about this off-task use, Neiterman said. They tried to explain to students to attempt to minimize use, but many said it was a difficult challenge to take on.

Electronics in the Classroom Lead to Lower Test Scores
https://www.usnews.com/news/education-news/articles/2018-07-27/study-cellphones-laptops-in-the-classroom-lead-to-lower-test-scores

Using electronic devices in the classroom can be distracting to students and lead to lower grades.
A study published in the journal Educational Psychology found that students who had cellphones or laptops present while a lesson was being taught scored five percent, or half a letter grade, lower on exams than students who didn't use electronics.
Researchers separated 118 college students enrolled in the same course into two groups. Each group was taught the same material by the same professor, but one group was allowed to have cellphones and laptops open for non-academic purposes, while the other group was not. While the students allowed electronics didn't score lower on comprehension tests during lectures, they scored lower on exams at the end of the term.
The study also found that students in the device-permitting classroom who were not using devices also scored lower. The researchers attributed this to distraction from the devices around them.
"The intrusion of internet-enabled electronic devices (laptop, tablet and cell phone) has transformed the modern college lecture into a divided attention task," the study stated.

When a person's attention is divided between two tasks, fewer items concerning those tasks can be recalled later, ABC News reported.
Arnold Glass, lead author of the study and professor of psychology at Rutgers University New Brunswick, told ABC that the study also applies to high school and middle school, as well as meetings in the workplace.
According to a press release from Rutgers University, the study is the first-ever to show a causal relationship between distractions from electronics and exam performance.
"Many dedicated students think they can divide their attention in the classroom without harming their academic success but we found an insidious effect on exam performance and final grades," Glass said in the release. "To help manage the use of devices in the classroom, teachers should explain to students the damaging effect of distractions on retention not only on themselves, but for the whole class."

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Technology and Student Distraction
https://bokcenter.harvard.edu/technology-and-student-distraction

In many ways, the ubiquity of laptops and mobile devices in lectures has been a boon to higher educationstudents can now respond instantaneously to online polls, collaborate in real time on written work, and engage with a range of media more flexibly than ever before. With those advantages, of course, come an equal and opposite set of possible disadvantages, and for many instructors the latter outweigh the former. As a result, an increasing number of instructors now include specific policies regarding technology in the classroom, many of them opting to ban laptops and mobile devices outright. Other instructors, however, opt to embraceor at least resign themselves tothese technologies as means of rethinking the dynamic between student and instructor in teaching spaces. The debate has ardent proponents on both sides, and below we lay out the case for each.

The Case Against Technology in the Classroom
If you've been anywhere near a college campus, you've probably noticed the extent to which students are glued to their mobile devices. What do they do with them when they walk into the classroom? In one survey at six different universities, college students reported using their phones an average of 11 times per day in class. In another study, 92% of college students reported using their phones to send text messages during class.
Recently, a faculty member asked us for advice about policies regarding mobile devices in class. Indeed, this is a hot topic on our campus and at universities across the country. We were able to point him to a number of studies examining mobile devices in the college classroom. Not surprisingly, the evidence suggests that cell phones generally are a distraction for students.
Broadly, we are not wired to multitask well (e.g. Mayer and Moreno), and using cell phones during class is no exception. Several studies have compared students who texted during a lecture versus those who did not. Those who texted frequently took lower quality notes, retained less information, and did worse on tests about the material (e.g. see Kuznekoff and Titsworth, and Rosen et al). Students themselves realize that cell phone usage does not promote learning; in one survey, 80% of students agreed that using a mobile phone in class decreases their ability to pay attention.
What is worse is that mobile device usage is distracting to neighboring students. In several surveys, students have reported that texting is distracting to nearby students. A study on laptops in a simulated classroom found that students in the vicinity of another student who was multitasking on a laptop during class scored worse on a test than those who were not near multitaskers. While cell phone screens are smallerand thus perhaps less distractingthan a laptop, one could reasonably expect that a similar phenomenon of distraction applies to cell phones.
On the other hand, smart phones and other mobile devices can be used for positive purposes in the classroom. For example, instructors might choose to employ a variety of applications, including Poll Everywhere and Learning Catalytics, which can be accessed by mobile devices. These applications encourage class participation and provide instructors with instantaneous feedback about student learning.
Whether laptops should be allowed in the classroom may be a bit more nuanced, as some students prefer to take notes on their computer. However, the temptation for distraction is large. Fried found that most students using a computer in class spend considerable time on activities not related to taking notes, and furthermore identified a negative correlation between student success in class and in-class laptop use. Additionally, as mentioned above, neighboring students are easily distracted when a student on a computer strays from the immediate task at hand. For best practices about using laptops in the classroom, see this guide created by Michigans Center for Research on Teaching and Learning.
Should instructors explicitly prohibit students from using mobile devices in class? Its certainly worth considering, and potentially including in the syllabus. Its also worth talking with your students about the reasons why you do not want mobile devices to be used in class.

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When Schools Ban Smartphones, Students Test Scores Improve
https://www.govtech.com/education/k-12/when-schools-ban-smartphones-students-test-scores-improve.html
A new study, covering more than 130,000 students across England, looks at how cellphone policies have changed since 2001.

(TNS) -- Cellphones are as common as a pencil and notebook these days among students, yet they may be a distraction when it comes to test scores.

A new study by the London School of Economics found that a cellphone ban in schools results in a clear improvement in overall test scores.

The study, conducted by researchers Richard Murphy and Louis-Philippe Beland, covered more than 130,000 students across 91 schools in England, looking at how cellphone policies have changed since 2001. The data looked at results in national exams taken across the country by students at age 16.

The study found that students saw a 6.41 percent improvement in test scores and performance at schools that have introduced a cellphone ban.

Low-achieving students saw improved outcomes of up to 14.23 percent as a result of a cellphone ban, with high-achieving students have little to no impact from the ban.

"The results suggest that low-achieving students are more likely to be distracted by the presence of mobile phones, while high achievers can focus in the classroom regardless of whether phones are present," the study says. "Given 18 heterogeneous results, banning mobile phones could be a low-cost way for schools to reduce educational inequality."

The researchers note, however, that technology like mobile phones can be productive if used properly.

"Schools that restrict access to mobile phones subsequently experience an improvement in test scores," the study says. "However, these findings do not discount the possibility that mobile phones could be a useful learning tool if their use is properly structured."

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Lower test scores for students who use computers often in school, 31-country study finds
https://www.thetechedvocate.org/lower-test-scores-students-use-computers-often-school-31-country-study-finds/
In top-performing nations, teachers, not students, use technology

This article was written by Jill Barshay
For those of us who worry that Google might be making us stupid, and that, perhaps, technology and education dont mix well, heres a new study to confirm that anxiety.
The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) looked at computer use among 15-year-olds across 31 nations and regions, and found that students who used computers more at school had both lower reading and lower math scores, as measured by PISA or Program for International Student Assessment. The study, published September 15, 2015, was actually conducted back in 2012, when the average student across the world, for example, was using the Internet once a week, doing software drills once a month, and emailing once a month. But the highest-performing students were using computers in the classroom less than that.
Those that use the Internet every day do the worst, said Andreas Schleicher, OECD Director for Education and Skills, and author of Students, Computers and Learning: Making the Connection, the OECDs first report to look at the digital skills of students around the world. The study controlled for income and race; between two similar students, the one who used computers more, generally scored worse.*
Home computer use, by contrast, wasnt as harmful to academic achievement. Many students in many high performing nations reported spending between one to two hours a day on a computer outside of school. Across the 31 nations and regions, the average 15-year-old spent more than two hours a day on the computer. (Compare your country here).
Back in the classroom, however, school systems with more computers tended to be improving less, the study found. Those with fewer computers were seeing larger educational gains, as measured by PISA test score changes between 2009 and 2012.
Thats pretty sobering for us, said Schleicher in a press briefing. We all hope that integrating more and more technology is going to help us enhance learning environments, make learning more interactive, introduce more experiential learning, and give students access to more advanced knowledge. But it doesnt seem to be working like this.
Schleicher openly worried that if students end up cutting and pasting information from Google into worksheets with prefabricated questions, then theyre not going to learn a lot.
There are countless examples of where the appropriate use of technology has had and is having a positive impact on achievement, said Bruce Friend, the chief operating officer of iNACOL, a U.S.-based advocacy group for increasing the use of technology in education. We shouldnt use this report to think that technology doesnt have a place.
Friend urges schools in the U.S. and elsewhere to train teachers more in how to use technology, especially in how to analyze real-time performance data from students so that instruction can be modified and tailored to each student.
Lots of technological investments are not translating into immediate achievement increases. If raising student achievement was as easy as giving every student a device, we would have this solved. Its not easy, Friend added.
In a press briefing on the report, Schleicher noted that many of the top 10 scoring countries and regions on the PISA test, such as Singapore and Shanghai, China, are cautious about giving computers to students during the school day. But they have sharply increased computer use among teachers. Teachers in Shanghai, Schleicher explained, are expected to upload lesson plans to a database and they are partly evaluated by how much they contribute. In other Asian countries, it is common for teachers to collaborate electronically in writing lessons. And technology is used for video observations of classrooms and feedback. Maybe thats something we can learn from, said Schleicher.
In addition to comparing computer use at schools with academic achievement, the report also released results from a 2012 computerized PISA test that assessed digital skills. U.S. students, it turns out, are much better at digital reading than they are at traditional print reading. The U.S. ranked among the group of top performing nations in this category. In math, the U.S. was near the worldwide average on the digital test, whereas it usually ranks below average on the print test.
The digital reading test assesses slightly different skills than the print test. For example, students are presented with a simulated website and asked to answer questions from it. Astonishingly, U.S. students are rather good at remaining on task, clicking strategically and getting back on track after an errant click. By contrast, students in many other nations were more prone to click around aimlessly.
Interestingly, there wasnt a positive correlation between computer usage at school and performance on the digital tests. Some of the highest scoring nations on the digital tests dont use computers very much at school.
In the end, 15-year-old students need good comprehension and analysis skills to do well in either the print or the digital worlds. This study leaves me thinking that technology holds a lot of promise, but that its hard to implement properly. Yes, maybe there are superstar teachers in Silicon Valley who never get rattled by computer viruses, inspire their students with thrilling lab simulations and connect their classroom with Nobel Prize-winning researchers. But is it realistic to expect the majority of teachers to do that? Is the typical teachers attempt to use technology in the classroom so riddled with problems that its taking away valuable instructional time that could otherwise be spent teaching how to write a well-structured essay?
Perhaps, its best to invest the computer money, into hiring, paying and training good teachers.
* In reading, students who used the computer a little bit did score better than those who never used a computer. But then as computer use increased beyond that little bit, reading performance declined. In math, the highest performing students didnt use computers at all.

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It having a chance to be distracting doesn't erase all the benefits it gives.

And you can still have all the benefits of the LapTops & Smart Devices by "LEAVING IT @ HOME".

And France didn't ban tablets and laptops, only cell phones although I can see that being lifted as technology continues to progress.

I highly doubt it given how recent the ban started (2018-2019 school year)

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/01/18/research-shows-that-cell-phones-distract-students--so-france-banned-them-in-school--.html

In July of 2018, the French government passed a law banning cell phones in schools. According to CNN, the law passed 62 votes to one. The policy came into effect during the beginning of the 2018-2019 school year and impacts students in kindergarten through the 9th grade

Some schools across the U.S. are enacting similar policies as a way to decrease distractions for students.
It was a constant distraction for kids and what it became is a constant discipline issue, Robin Kvalo, Principal of Portage High School, tells Wisconsin Public Radio. Kvalo says the school confiscated over 200 phones during the last school year, and that students and teachers are seeing results.
They are not distracted anymore, she says. The phones are not their preoccupation. They know they cant have the phones in the classroom. If that had been the case years ago, we wouldnt have needed the policy.
It doesnt take a scientist to tell you that cell phones can be distracting, but if you want do want confirmation from a scientist, its not hard to find. Study after study shows that the powerful computers we keep in our pockets can be distracting for even the most disciplined of adults not to mention students.

One study published by the London School of Economics traced the impact of banning mobile phones at schools on exam scores. Researchers found that students in schools schools with phone bans earned higher test scores and that low-performing students benefited the most. Restricting mobile phone use can be a low-cost policy to reduce educational inequalities, concludes the study.
Another study published in the Journal of Communication Education found that students without mobile phones performed better in several different areas. They wrote down 62 percent more information in their notes, were able to recall more detailed information from class and scored a full letter grade-and-a-half higher on a multiple choice test than those who were actively using their mobile phones.
Research published by the University of Chicago found that even if cell phones are turned off, turned face down or put away, their mere presence reduces peoples cognitive capacity.

Today, 95 percent of American adults owns a cell phone of some kind and 77 percent own a smartphone, according to the Pew Research Center. Pew also reports that 95 percent of teens have or have access to a smartphone, and 45 percent of teens say they are online on a near-constant basis.

And you think it isn't a problem in the class room.


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Unrelated but France doesn't have compulsory school uniforms so no country has your puritanical cell phone ban+school uniform ideal.

https://www.quora.com/Why-don-t-French-schools-have-uniforms

Out of the 3 pictures describing uniforms, 2 schools have a military past - Ecole de la Legion dhonneur was founded by Napoleon to educate the daughters and grand daughters of recipients of that decoration - Le Prytanee is like a cadet high school for future officers.
I was born in 1966 and for many years - in private schools - had a uniform - or just a blouse like a lab coat to cover whatever you were wearing- It came in 2 colors to be used alternating weeks to make sure students.. or their mothers - washed it at least once a week !
In most private schools today - even though there is no formal uniform - there is a strictly enforced dress code - The more elite the school is - the more enforcement on hair style / straps / shorts or skirts length / sagging pants
The request for a uniform comes from more conservatively inclined people but also from more enlightened people who realize this is the best way to offer a democratic education and erase visible social differences.
My personal belief is that as money is a dirty word in French and that most people do not want to flaunt it - for fear of taxation or insult - As a uniform is a sign of a private school, you do not want to show off your belonging to that school in the streets - especially if it has a high tuition.
That being said, most of the parents I know and many of their kids would welcome a uniform as a relief to social pressure and cost of branded clothes

Contrary to popular belief, there are numerous schools in France where uniforms are still welcome

As said previously, uniform in France is seen as a mark of the schools for the elites and wealthy people, which are very very bad words in France since 1968.
As a former student of both schools - with and without an uniform - I really liked the no brainer life with a uniform. And it is the better way to see the students characters beyond their clothes.
Nevertheless, even in school without an uniform, the dress code is really constrained.
For French upper level schools, it is like Beatrice said, but for more common school as well: teenagers need to belong to a group and clothes are one of the obvious marks of this.

In addition to what has already been said, some schools have a light uniform, a bit like a dress code.

What is the reason why school uniforms are considered bad in some countries?
Originally Answered: What are some reasons that kids should not have to wear school uniforms?
Hate to play devils advocate, but this is too hard to pass up. As someone who spent 12 years in a uniform (6 of those years begrudgingly, I might add), let me tell you why I think uniforms are so important.
They provide a structured working environment. Sweatpants, baggy t-shirts, short pants/shirts/dresses/skirts/anythingAll of these items of clothing are things kids love to wear, but not clothes that create a productive working environment. They can be sloppy and distracting, and wearing them in class can blur the separation between recreational time and school time.
They save time! Choosing an outfit can take a long time for some kids. A uniform mostly gets rid of the wasted time kids spend methodically picking outfits in the morning.
They equal the playing field, socio-economically speaking. A uniform creates a space where everyone is on equal footing. Wealthier kids cant come to school and show off their expensive attire and make less privileged students feel bad. If everyone is wearing the same thing, no one can feel bad about their apparel (or lack-there-of).
Finally, kids need some rules sometimes. A uniforms is a mostly harmless way of providing children some discipline a good model for what they will experience in a professional environment when they enter the workforce.
The main argument I encounter with uniforms is that they limit kids sense of self-expression. While that can sometimes be true, kids who really want to express themselves will come up with clever, fun ways to accent their uniforms and let themselves shine through. Take me, for example. I ADORE the color red, but my school banned us from wearing it. I spent days combing over the rule book, looking for loopholes. I eventually found one: nowhere in the rulebook did it say anything about the color of our shoes. So, I wore red shoes every day from that day on. People knew me as the Red shoe girl, and I gained a very nice reputation around my school for my little quirk. If there was no uniform, I would just be another face in the crowd.
So TL;DR, uniform is great for kids! Especially for expressive ones!

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Why, because a spiteful out of touch and hypocritical gamer boomer said so?

So, now you're going to personal insults instead of debating the argument.

Statistically less than before where people simply fell asleep in class or goofed around and didn't pay attention anyway.

Got any #'s or Research to back that up?
Something more than, I said so, or I pulled it out of my arse?

YOU'RE the one missing the forest for the trees. Students benefit by using smart devices that accompany the teachers.

Keyword: TEACHERS
The students don't need the Smart Device all the time, on their person.
I've already linked plenty of articles showing how it's distracting to the student and everybody around them.

How are students able to access their practices and assignments without using their laptops?

You access their practices & assignments on the LapTop you left @ HOME, where you do HOME WORK!

You're really so out of touch you aren't aware that many practices, assignments, and essays are done via computers now.

I've done plenty of assignments on computer, @ HOME.

Not in the class room during the middle of a lecture, or when it was Class Time.

Showing things on a smart device is just progression from showing things on a TV so if you can acknowledge that showing things on a TV can work then you should be able to acknowledge smart devices work too.

As long as the TEACHERS are in SOLE CONTROL and students aren't carrying a distracting "Smart Device" on their person, to class and using it in the middle of class to distract themselves and others around them.

But it seems you're so incredibly close-minded and narcissistic that you believe only the way you experienced is the right way.

It's called, experience. I know what slackers like to do, I've seen it all my student life.


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And yes, many schools do have their own laptops to give out. But if a student already has their own laptop then it's more practical for them to use something they're already familiar with.

It's also easier for the student to set their laptop up to be easily destracting.

A school owned laptop can lock everything down.

Modern laptops have SIM slots that allow Wireless Cell Connections.

That isn't going to help with getting the students to focus, they're going to end up surfing the net, wasting time on social media, gaming, etc; all during class time.

Here's the thing. You're automatically assuming kids will always default to messing around and being distracted when there are plenty of kids, the majority even, who want to do well in school.

You obviously haven't been around kids then, they LOVE to horse around and waste time.
Instilling Discipline comes from the Adult/Parent/Teacher level.

Something you obviously missed while growing up.

This kind of immediate negativity about children is why you should never work with children which I doubt you ever will anyway.

I've worked with plenty of children in my day, I understand their default behavior all too well.

Or maybe you're just personally basing all this off of your school's bad students.

I've seen this behavior in bad students in many schools, not just mine.

It happens at all ages, all grades.

Give them a moment to be distracted, they'll distract themselves for over half the class time.

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SerperiorThanU posted...

lol spamming studies now even though you've shown you don't have the critical thinking or reading comprehension skills to actually understand any of the articles you posted.

Since you can't seem to debate or have evidence, you come down to insults instead of backing your arguments with evidence.

In the very first study, it immediately says "for noneducational purposes" when the whole point of this discussion was using it for educational purposes with your Harvard article having a whole section for

And you didn't even bother to read the details and you get hung up on trivial issues like that.

The Case for Technology in the Classroom which you intentionally left out.

I can only post 8000 characters, I had to leave out some fluff.

You can argue for that, but the case against having it is far stronger.

And you're using quora which shows that you're literally just google searching for the specific terms to prove your confirmation bias.

And you have no evidence to back up your side of the argument.

In any case, it's pretty clear that any school you went to must have been a trash one and that you're someone who is incapable of a proper debate.

LOL, this coming from somebody who debases themselves to insulting your opponents, personal attacks, and can't argue their point with proper evidence.

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Wtf is this topic doing

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Again, you're the one that doesn't have the big picture. You're ignoring all the benefits that devices can have in class to focus on negative assumptions and speculations.

I've already posted plenty of evidence to back up my point

You solution is a black and white ban on devices in school which is just stupid and out of touch.

And other countries, schools, and nations have tested it and shown Positive valid results to banning Students from carrying Smart Devices & LapTops.

There is a balance between using devices responsibly as a learning tool and using it to mess around.

Yes, it's called, using it @ HOME.

Not during Class Time, wasting the teachers time, distracting yourself & others around you.

But apparently you lack common sense.

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KamenRiderBlade posted...

It's school, you go there to learn; not to have a fun day at your Social Hang-Out club.

You want to Hang-Out, have fun, socialize.

Do it on your free time out of school or on Recess/Lunch Break/Study Session after school.

When you're in class, your attention is towards the teacher and learning.

Period.

I may have been a Honors Students / AP Student back in the day; but I believe it's the right thing to get kids to focus.

Whats with all the random capitalized words and weirdly merged words?

Other than some stupid gimmick, of course.

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You're not making arguments. You're just posting logical fallacies and intentionally misreading things to support your narrative with a big heaping of hypocrisy to go along with it. Not to mention, you've been going for ad hominems yourself ITT.

This is rich, coming from you.

https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2020/05/14/on-the-cusp-of-adulthood-and-facing-an-uncertain-future-what-we-know-about-gen-z-so-far-2/
Members of Gen Z are more racially and ethnically diverse than any previous generation, and they are on track to be the most well-educated generation yet.

And they'd be better educated without being "Distracted" by bringing Smart Devices into Schools.

A look at older members of Generation Z suggests they are on a somewhat different educational trajectory than the generations that came before them. They are less likely to drop out of high school and more likely to be enrolled in college. Among 18- to 21-year-olds no longer in high school in 2018, 57% were enrolled in a two-year or four-year college. This compares with 52% among Millennials in 2003 and 43% among members of Gen X in 1987.

The reason they're being "Well Educated" is because society is telling them to get a college degree.
That's a seperate & unrelated topic to "Distraction" in the classroom.

https://www.aecf.org/blog/generation-z-and-education
Generation Zers are climbing a longer academic ladder. They are more likely to pursue college compared to earlier generations, according to the Pew Research Center. Among 18- to 21-year-olds no longer in high school in 2018, 57% were enrolled in a two- or four-year college. This same statistic was five percentage points lower at 52% for Millennials in 2003 and 14 percentage points lower at 43% for members of Generation X in 1987.
The Annie E. Casey Foundations KIDS COUNT Data Center reports a similar pro-education trend. From 2000 to 2018, the share of 16- to 19-year-olds who were not high school students or high school graduates dropped from 11% to just 4%. At the same time, the share of 18- to 24-year-olds who were college students or college graduates jumped from 36% to 49%.

Again, society is pounding it into students heads that they need to go to college.
That has nothing to do with the efficacy of the learning methods.

Those very same articles say that students use them and benefit from using them too.

No, those two links you posted are talking about demographics & attributes of Gen Z.

Literally making a deranged Trump tweet.

Again, personal insults instead of arguing your point


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Students can carry a device and have the teachers be in control.

That's not how that works.
It's way to easy to bypass any "School Restrictions" if it's your personal machine.

Yeah, I can believe that. I can believe you actually are one and you're just projecting your own failings.

This is rich, coming from you. You know jack squat about me, but assign all these negative attributes about me based on ZERO evidence other then your personal negative feelings against me.

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SerperiorThanU posted...

And they can punish the student if they're caught doing it. But I realize now that you have an abusive control freak mindset .

And you don't care about the damage that modern Smart Devices are doing to the education of our students. You're so caught up in advocating for it that you ignore all evidence shoved in front of you.

Not so much as to have to automatically assume the worst in them and think they must have everything restricted and helicopter parented.

I'm basing this on plenty of evidence in class already, I don't need to assume the worst. It's well documented what the vast majority of students are doing with their Smart Devices during class time.

But now that I think of I do recall you supporting beating or "physically disciplining" children.

What?

lol you've clearly never been in a classroom within the last 15 years so are you referring to when you were in school as "working with children"? In any case this just speaks more about you.

And you make plenty assumptions about a stranger on the internet.

Yeah, and I've seen the opposite.

You saw what you want to see.
You're not seeing the larger scale of things and the effects it's having on the overall student population.

Otherwise, you'd be siding with me if you saw the damage it's doing.

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SerperiorThanU posted...

You're not making arguments.

Plenty of articles I've posted back up my claims

When Schools Ban Smartphones, Students Test Scores Improve
https://www.govtech.com/education/k-12/when-schools-ban-smartphones-students-test-scores-improve.html
A new study, covering more than 130,000 students across England, looks at how cellphone policies have changed since 2001.

Lower test scores for students who use computers often in school, 31-country study finds
https://www.thetechedvocate.org/lower-test-scores-students-use-computers-often-school-31-country-study-finds/

You literally ignore all the evidence I shove right in front of your face.

You're just posting logical fallacies and intentionally misreading things to support your narrative with a big heaping of hypocrisy to go along with it.

No need to misread anything when evidence is given.
They back my conclusions.
Research has shown superior Test Results for students that aren't distracted.

But you're a big advocate for distracting students in the middle of class with their Smart Devices & LapTops.

God forbid making a nice and focused class room where the teacher can get on with their work and not worryign about their students mind wandering off thanks to the power of the Internet / Social Media / Games / etc.

Not to mention, you've been going for ad hominems yourself ITT.

This is rich, coming from you and all your personal attacks on my character, who I am. My educational achievements when I was a student.

You know JACK SQUAT about me, but proceed to insult me repeatedly

Because I know you're just going to be intentionally dense and waste my time like you've been doing.

You're denser than a Neutron Star.
You can't even understand the basic concept of improving the Classroom environment for the vast majority of students and helping improve their learning.

You're fixated on Tech being the magical cure all to education when it has proven otherwise.

Have you ever heard the phrase that "Less is More"?

Yeah, the section that's nuanced and balances out your section is just "fluff" and you worry about posting 8000 characters even though you have no qualms making 4+posts in a row. What a joke.

It's called debating you, it takes time to break down your false hoods.

Not only have I posted tons, your own articles do it for me anyway. My argument is literally just that technology is beneficial and works in school which your own articles state too.

In limited & very controlled circumstances for niche applications and special situations.

Tech is not a Cure All to help students. It has been shown to be more of a hindrance, especially if the student brings their own device which inevitably distracts themselves and others around them.

Tech is fine, @ home.

Tech isn't fine when it's distracting the student from learning in the class room.

There are knock on affects from that

Of course, there are flaws which your articles point out, but none of them share your stance that student technology should be banned.

And yet France went whole hog and banned cell phones out right.
You think the French government is incompetent? That they don't have the best interest for their students and children at heart?

The fact that so many other countries & schools have tested this and shown hard results that banning Smart Devices & LapTops in the classroom has a overall positive affect on students.

Yet you're the one who keeps denying it and thinks it's beneficial.


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KamenRiderBlade posted...

Lower test scores for students who use computers often in school, 31-country study finds
https://www.thetechedvocate.org/lower-test-scores-students-use-computers-often-school-31-country-study-finds/
In top-performing nations, teachers, not students, use technology

Read the entire article yourself

KamenRiderBlade posted...

When Schools Ban Smartphones, Students Test Scores Improve
https://www.govtech.com/education/k-12/when-schools-ban-smartphones-students-test-scores-improve.html
A new study, covering more than 130,000 students across England, looks at how cellphone policies have changed since 2001.

You're just an extremist and can only see in black and white.

I'm a realist, pragmatist, and I've seen the good, the bad, and the ugly that the distraction & damage that modern Smart Devices & LapTops are doing to students.

Countless articles are written, Governments have done tests

Yet, you lambast my view point when I give you actual tested results.

Technology or no technology. When there exists a technology but regulated.

That's the entire point, to regulate it so that students can have a superior educational environment in the classroom.

Yeah, this applies to you and I'm just done humoring a shitposter.

You should look in the mirror then.

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SerperiorThanU posted...

You haven't.

You just don't bother to read it, because it kills your argument.

And the opposite has also happened. I've already posted multiple links where computers have gotten an increase in score but you've probably already forgotten about them.

Then post them again, show the evidence.

In any case, the best schools in the world have computers and phones so you already fail there. A few tiny outliers don't change anything.

Yeah, the schools have it. The students shouldn't be bringing in their own personal devices to be distraction tools.

Once again you're playing dense. I mean there's a balance to using it at school.

Yes, when the teacher authorizes it's use and provides the student with the device to learn on.

And no, you're the one in the minority with your stupid puritanical beliefs that you grasp for any small straw of examples that support you.

If I'm in the minority, why are there so many articles with studies & results that show a noticeable improvement when banning Smart Devices & LapTops from the class Room.

SerperiorThanU posted...

Richer coming from you.

Not really, I already have plenty of Research to back my position.

When people were less educated back when there were no smart devices, nope.

Ah, so there's your prejudiced views on people of the past coming up again.


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SerperiorThanU posted...

There is no damage being done. It's you making a mountain out of a molehole. Your own studies say that the benefits of technology can make up for it. There's a reason why you and those outlier schools are a minority.

If it was such a minority, why did France implement a legislative ban?

Why are there so many results from tests being done on masses of students showing improvements?

SerperiorThanU posted...

And yet they're more educated than ever.

They're educated because they're staying in school longer to attend college.

SerperiorThanU posted...

Defended spanking.

Oh please, you think spanking was that big of a deal?
What priss you must be IRL if you think it's that big of a deal to spank children when they misbehave.


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Again, what I do on my free time is irrelevant to this debate.

I literally posted evidence, and you ignore all of it.

Lower test scores for students who use computers often in school, 31-country study finds
https://www.thetechedvocate.org/lower-test-scores-students-use-computers-often-school-31-country-study-finds/
In top-performing nations, teachers, not students, use technology

This article was written by Jill Barshay
For those of us who worry that Google might be making us stupid, and that, perhaps, technology and education dont mix well, heres a new study to confirm that anxiety.
The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) looked at computer use among 15-year-olds across 31 nations and regions, and found that students who used computers more at school had both lower reading and lower math scores, as measured by PISA or Program for International Student Assessment. The study, published September 15, 2015, was actually conducted back in 2012, when the average student across the world, for example, was using the Internet once a week, doing software drills once a month, and emailing once a month. But the highest-performing students were using computers in the classroom less than that.
Those that use the Internet every day do the worst, said Andreas Schleicher, OECD Director for Education and Skills, and author of Students, Computers and Learning: Making the Connection, the OECDs first report to look at the digital skills of students around the world. The study controlled for income and race; between two similar students, the one who used computers more, generally scored worse.*
Home computer use, by contrast, wasnt as harmful to academic achievement. Many students in many high performing nations reported spending between one to two hours a day on a computer outside of school. Across the 31 nations and regions, the average 15-year-old spent more than two hours a day on the computer. (Compare your country here).
Back in the classroom, however, school systems with more computers tended to be improving less, the study found. Those with fewer computers were seeing larger educational gains, as measured by PISA test score changes between 2009 and 2012.
Thats pretty sobering for us, said Schleicher in a press briefing. We all hope that integrating more and more technology is going to help us enhance learning environments, make learning more interactive, introduce more experiential learning, and give students access to more advanced knowledge. But it doesnt seem to be working like this.
Schleicher openly worried that if students end up cutting and pasting information from Google into worksheets with prefabricated questions, then theyre not going to learn a lot.
There are countless examples of where the appropriate use of technology has had and is having a positive impact on achievement, said Bruce Friend, the chief operating officer of iNACOL, a U.S.-based advocacy group for increasing the use of technology in education. We shouldnt use this report to think that technology doesnt have a place.
Friend urges schools in the U.S. and elsewhere to train teachers more in how to use technology, especially in how to analyze real-time performance data from students so that instruction can be modified and tailored to each student.
Lots of technological investments are not translating into immediate achievement increases. If raising student achievement was as easy as giving every student a device, we would have this solved. Its not easy, Friend added.
In a press briefing on the report, Schleicher noted that many of the top 10 scoring countries and regions on the PISA test, such as Singapore and Shanghai, China, are cautious about giving computers to students during the school day. But they have sharply increased computer use among teachers. Teachers in Shanghai, Schleicher explained, are expected to upload lesson plans to a database and they are partly evaluated by how much they contribute. In other Asian countries, it is common for teachers to collaborate electronically in writing lessons. And technology is used for video observations of classrooms and feedback. Maybe thats something we can learn from, said Schleicher.
In addition to comparing computer use at schools with academic achievement, the report also released results from a 2012 computerized PISA test that assessed digital skills. U.S. students, it turns out, are much better at digital reading than they are at traditional print reading. The U.S. ranked among the group of top performing nations in this category. In math, the U.S. was near the worldwide average on the digital test, whereas it usually ranks below average on the print test.
The digital reading test assesses slightly different skills than the print test. For example, students are presented with a simulated website and asked to answer questions from it. Astonishingly, U.S. students are rather good at remaining on task, clicking strategically and getting back on track after an errant click. By contrast, students in many other nations were more prone to click around aimlessly.
Interestingly, there wasnt a positive correlation between computer usage at school and performance on the digital tests. Some of the highest scoring nations on the digital tests dont use computers very much at school.
In the end, 15-year-old students need good comprehension and analysis skills to do well in either the print or the digital worlds. This study leaves me thinking that technology holds a lot of promise, but that its hard to implement properly. Yes, maybe there are superstar teachers in Silicon Valley who never get rattled by computer viruses, inspire their students with thrilling lab simulations and connect their classroom with Nobel Prize-winning researchers. But is it realistic to expect the majority of teachers to do that? Is the typical teachers attempt to use technology in the classroom so riddled with problems that its taking away valuable instructional time that could otherwise be spent teaching how to write a well-structured essay?
Perhaps, its best to invest the computer money, into hiring, paying and training good teachers.
* In reading, students who used the computer a little bit did score better than those who never used a computer. But then as computer use increased beyond that little bit, reading performance declined. In math, the highest performing students didnt use computers at all.

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Survey: Nearly Half of Students Distracted by Technology
https://www.insidehighered.com/digital-learning/article/2019/07/10/survey-shows-nearly-half-students-distracted-technology

A recent survey found the use of technology in class, such as laptops or phones, for noneducational purposes was distracting to almost half of students, while others surveyed believe technology in the classroom is unavoidable.
The study was published in the Canadian Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning and surveyed 478 students and 36 instructors at the University of Waterloo.
Of the undergraduate students surveyed, 49 percent said the use of technology for reasons not related to class, or off-task use, was distracting to them. However, students generally said theyve used technology for off-task purposes regardless.

49% of the 478 Students knows & ADMITS that "off-task" use of technology is distracting to themselves

Students actually know and realize that the use of technology has a negative impact on people around them when used for off-task purposes like browsing the web, Elena Neiterman, a Waterloo teaching fellow and one of the authors of the study, said. They still feel like [technology] is still necessary when the classes are not engaging enough. Like, for example, being in a large lecture hall or when the professor is what they call boring.

Students knows that if they distract themselves in class, it negatively impacts those around them.

The survey showed the use of social media in a classroom setting had become normalized, and students saw off-task activity less negatively because most students were engaged in some sort of off-task activity at some point during class. Neiterman said the survey revealed some students felt that to allow for a brief distraction when they felt bored would help them feel more engaged for the rest of the class period. Most students surveyed said they saw it as their right to use the technology in class.
They felt it would be useful for them to maybe do their own thing for a couple minutes and then come back to the class, Neiterman said. [Students] also felt if they were too overwhelmed by the information they would get off the topic and go browse or text somebody and take a mental break.
In particular, the study focused on the perspectives on instructors regarding technology use. While teachers and students were found to have similarly positive views on the use of technology for class-related activities, teachers obviously held negative views about off-task activities. Sixty-eight percent of instructors said they felt bothered by student cellphone use, however, only 32 percent were bothered by laptop use.

68% of Instructors were bothered by Student CellPhone usage.
32% of Instructors were bothered by Student LapTop usage.

Among the instructors surveyed, general methods of dealing with technology use in class included ignoring and tolerating it, minimizing it by explaining to students the detriments, or utilizing it in classroom activity. Twenty-three percent of instructors surveyed said they incorporated technology into the curriculum. Many instructors surveyed said students using off-task technology had become more brazen, which was seen as insulting.
The survey also asked respondents to consider who was responsible for limiting off-task use in the classroom, and some students felt it was the instructors job to make the class engaging enough to deincentivize off-task technology use. Many instructors dismissed the idea by pointing out it would be an uphill battle for any professor to compete with a social media network designed to attract attention.

It's a literal impossibility for Teachers to police every single student that brings in their Smart Device.
It's not even practical to do it during Classroom time.

A study released last year found a causal link between lower test scores and the uses of cellphones and laptops. The study suggested students were wrong to believe they could divide their attention between technology and class lectures, as technology impairs their ability to retain information from the class.
Neiterman said instructors surveyed recognized the fact that technology wasnt going anywhere, particularly because of its use in increasing accessibility. Nonetheless, many instructors who felt negatively about off-task use said they would continue to try to inform their students about the negatives of divided attention.
Instructors really felt difficulties about this off-task use, Neiterman said. They tried to explain to students to attempt to minimize use, but many said it was a difficult challenge to take on.

Teachers try to explain the distracted usage of students Smart Devices, but they're facing a up-hill battle.

No thanks to advocates like you who are encouraging a worse learning environment for students.

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When Schools Ban Smartphones, Students Test Scores Improve
https://www.govtech.com/education/k-12/when-schools-ban-smartphones-students-test-scores-improve.html
A new study, covering more than 130,000 students across England, looks at how cellphone policies have changed since 2001.

(TNS) -- Cellphones are as common as a pencil and notebook these days among students, yet they may be a distraction when it comes to test scores.

A new study by the London School of Economics found that a cellphone ban in schools results in a clear improvement in overall test scores.

The study, conducted by researchers Richard Murphy and Louis-Philippe Beland, covered more than 130,000 students across 91 schools in England, looking at how cellphone policies have changed since 2001. The data looked at results in national exams taken across the country by students at age 16.

Is covering 130,000 students in 91 schools in England a good enough sample for you?

The study found that students saw a 6.41 percent improvement in test scores and performance at schools that have introduced a cellphone ban.

Positive results from banning CellPhones.

Low-achieving students saw improved outcomes of up to 14.23 percent as a result of a cellphone ban, with high-achieving students have little to no impact from the ban.

Even more beneficial effects to Low-achievers by banning CellPhones.

"The results suggest that low-achieving students are more likely to be distracted by the presence of mobile phones, while high achievers can focus in the classroom regardless of whether phones are present," the study says. "Given 18 heterogeneous results, banning mobile phones could be a low-cost way for schools to reduce educational inequality."

The researchers note, however, that technology like mobile phones can be productive if used properly.

The critical point is how do you use a mobile phone correctly; it certainly isn't done correctly when the Student brings their own device, distracts themselves, and others around them.

"Schools that restrict access to mobile phones subsequently experience an improvement in test scores," the study says. "However, these findings do not discount the possibility that mobile phones could be a useful learning tool if their use is properly structured."

And the proper structure wouldn't be giving the student willy nilly access to their Smart Devices in the middle of Class Time when they should be paying attention to the teacher.

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Lower test scores for students who use computers often in school, 31-country study finds
https://www.thetechedvocate.org/lower-test-scores-students-use-computers-often-school-31-country-study-finds/
In top-performing nations, teachers, not students, use technology

Friend urges schools in the U.S. and elsewhere to train teachers more in how to use technology, especially in how to analyze real-time performance data from students so that instruction can be modified and tailored to each student.
Lots of technological investments are not translating into immediate achievement increases. If raising student achievement was as easy as giving every student a device, we would have this solved. Its not easy, Friend added.

But investing in all that tech hasn't shown results.

In a press briefing on the report, Schleicher noted that many of the top 10 scoring countries and regions on the PISA test, such as Singapore and Shanghai, China, are cautious about giving computers to students during the school day. But they have sharply increased computer use among teachers.

You wonder why the Top 10 scoring countried & regions are "Cautious" about givingt computers to students during the school day.

Hmmm, Correlation & Results are evident.

Teachers are fine, they can use technology as they see fit to boost their teaching capabilities and effectiveness.

That's a far cry from students carrying their own Smart Devices & LapTops into the class room.

Teachers in Shanghai, Schleicher explained, are expected to upload lesson plans to a database and they are partly evaluated by how much they contribute. In other Asian countries, it is common for teachers to collaborate electronically in writing lessons. And technology is used for video observations of classrooms and feedback. Maybe thats something we can learn from, said Schleicher.

Yes Proper usage of technology by the teachers is key.

In addition to comparing computer use at schools with academic achievement, the report also released results from a 2012 computerized PISA test that assessed digital skills. U.S. students, it turns out, are much better at digital reading than they are at traditional print reading. The U.S. ranked among the group of top performing nations in this category. In math, the U.S. was near the worldwide average on the digital test, whereas it usually ranks below average on the print test.
The digital reading test assesses slightly different skills than the print test. For example, students are presented with a simulated website and asked to answer questions from it. Astonishingly, U.S. students are rather good at remaining on task, clicking strategically and getting back on track after an errant click. By contrast, students in many other nations were more prone to click around aimlessly.
Interestingly, there wasnt a positive correlation between computer usage at school and performance on the digital tests. Some of the highest scoring nations on the digital tests dont use computers very much at school.

Despite US students being more proficient with computer usage, it hasn't shown dividends in digital test results.

Some of the highest scoring nations on the digital tests don't use comptuers very much at school, that's very telling.

In the end, 15-year-old students need good comprehension and analysis skills to do well in either the print or the digital worlds. This study leaves me thinking that technology holds a lot of promise, but that its hard to implement properly. Yes, maybe there are superstar teachers in Silicon Valley who never get rattled by computer viruses, inspire their students with thrilling lab simulations and connect their classroom with Nobel Prize-winning researchers. But is it realistic to expect the majority of teachers to do that? Is the typical teachers attempt to use technology in the classroom so riddled with problems that its taking away valuable instructional time that could otherwise be spent teaching how to write a well-structured essay?

A few teachers might be able to use all that tech to teach better, but the majority won't be able to utilize it.
Perhaps, its best to invest the computer money, into hiring, paying and training good teachers.

Exactly, re-use that funds into hiring, paying, & training better teachers.

* In reading, students who used the computer a little bit did score better than those who never used a computer. But then as computer use increased beyond that little bit, reading performance declined. In math, the highest performing students didnt use computers at all.

The OECD did their research and has plenty of data to back my conclusion.

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SerperiorThanU posted...

There is no damage being done. It's you making a mountain out of a molehole. Your own studies say that the benefits of technology can make up for it. There's a reason why you and those outlier schools are a minority.

Mobile phones should be banned in schools - Gavin Williamson
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-56663010

Mobile phones should be banned from schools because lockdown has affected childrens discipline and order, the education secretary has warned.

Even the Education Secretary of the UK is calling for it.

But apparently I'm in the minority and you know better than the Gavin Williamson, the "Education Secretary" of the UK.

Schools Say No to Cellphones in Class. But Is It a Smart Move?
https://www.edweek.org/technology/schools-say-no-to-cellphones-in-class-but-is-it-a-smart-move/2019/09

Thats why a flurry of schools have recently put in place restrictions or bans on students use of cellphones in school. The changes represent a pivot away from the more open student cellphone policies that districts instituted in previous years. But not everyone thinks the new restrictions are a step in the right direction.

More than 30 schools, or in some cases, entire districts have enacted or stepped up some sort of cellphone restrictions beginning in either the 2018-19 school year or the start of this academic year, according to an Education Week analysis.

California recently passed legislation that allows school districts to restrict or prohibit device use in class, although its not a requirement. And at least four other states debated putting significant limits on the devices.
Other countries have had more success enacting widespread bans. Ontario, a Canadian province, is restricting student cellphone use during instructional time. (The restrictions, which are scheduled to go into effect later this year, include an exception for classroom activities and health and other emergencies.) And in 2018, France passed a law outlawing the use of cellphones in schools for students up to age 15.

One school in Wisconsin had a low-tech solution: Families could call the front office, just like they did before cellphones were so ubiquitous, said Jo-Ellen Fairbanks, the assistant principal of Portage High School, which requires students to keep their cellphones in their lockers during the school day.

Such simple logic, why didn't more people think of this?

Cellphone-Restriction Legislation
Canadas Ontario province and France have enacted significant restrictions on student cellphone use in schools. But measures restricting cellphone use have been much harder to pass in the United States. Heres a list of the states that have recently considered some sort of student cellphone restriction:
California: Allows school districts or charter schools to limit or prohibit the use of smartphones during school hours. Status: Enacted.
Arizona: Called for a public policy that portable electronic devices should not be used in classrooms unless specifically authorized by the individual having authority over the public school classroom. Status: Failed.
Maine: Required the department of education to adopt rules restricting the use of cellphones by students. Allowed students to use their cellphones in the front office of the school in the event of an emergency. Status: Failed.
Maryland: Established a task force to study the impact of student cellphone use in classrooms on student learning and teacher instruction and report its findings to the legislature. Status: Failed.
Utah: Required individual public schools to develop a policy on the use of cellphones in school and submit that policy to district officials every two years. Status: Failed.
Source: National Conference of State Legislatures; Education Week
Nowhere in any [safety protocol] does it say get on your cellphone and notify a family member, he said.

Plenty of other area's are trying to ban CellPhone usage in school
Obviously to varying degrees of success, but not for lack of trying.

Look at all these states attempting to ban CellPhones in the classrooms.


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This Colorado Middle School Banned Phones 7 Years Ago. They Say Students Are Happier, Less Stressed And More Focused
https://www.cpr.org/2019/11/05/this-colorado-middle-school-banned-phones-seven-years-ago-they-say-students-are-happier-less-stressed-and-more-focused/

Teachers at Mountain Middle School in Durango knew they had to do something. La Plata County had one of the highest teen suicide rates in Colorado and the school wanted to be a truly safe space.
One of the first things that came to mind a cell phone ban. So, seven years ago, thats what they did.
Shane Voss, who was the new head of school at the public charter school back then, cites 24-hour cyberbullying, loss of sleep, round-the-clock social pressure to respond to Snapchats, Instagram posts and texts, and constant comparing oneself to other students. Voss and other school staff say cell phones play an underestimated role in the current teen mental health crisis.
Eighth graders Grace and Henry dont know what school is like with phones. Henry is on his phone about 10 minutes before he walks into Mountain Middle School and then its off.
He said for the first half hour of school his phone might be in the back of his mind, but once class starts then it's just kinda out the window and I'm not really thinking about it. So it's not a big distraction for me during school.
When schools out, he doesnt really think about it either because he hasnt seen in for the past six or seven hours. Grace doesnt think about her phone at all during the day except towards the end of the day, thinking about like, did my mom send me a text to say where I'm going after school and or something like that.

The rules are simple. And kids are talking to each other.
Theres a warning the first time a phone is out of a students backpack. On the second infraction, the phone is confiscated and parents have to pick it up. The third time, a student must hand the phone into the office at the beginning of the school day and pick it up at the end, for a set period of time.

What we've tried to do at our school is create a safe zone, Voss said. The eight hours of a school day when students don't have to worry about that added extra pressure.
He calls it a sanctuary.
They can just be a kid for eight hours and not have to worry about all the madness of responding and playing that digital game with their friends.

When the policy was first implemented seven years ago, kids would come into the school at 7:45 a.m., pull out their phones and look at Snapchat or Instagram as they waited for school to start at 8:00 a.m.
It was kind of eerie that they were all sitting next to each other but not talking to each other, recalls Voss. In 2016, teachers and administrators tweaked the rule to require that phones are in backpacks before students enter the building.
And now that 15 minute time as they're waiting for class, students are actually talking to each other. They're talking to teachers and they're talking to each other, he said.
If parents have an emergency and need to reach their children, they can call the front office and every classroom has a phone. But they [parents] should not be texting their student during the school day and distracting them during class, Voss said.
You dont spring a cell phone ban on parents.
Voss said parents needed to be educated about the impacts of the cell phone on the adolescent brain. Some studies point to a correlation between high social media use and anxiety and depression. The school invited parents throughout Durango to attend a screening of the documentary Screenagers, which explores the impact of screens on kids brains. A second event featured a showing of Angst which documents heightened levels of anxiety in todays youth.
If you are in crisis or are looking for mental health services for you or someone you know, call the Colorado Crisis Services hotline. Call 1-844-493-8255 or text TALK to 38255 to speak with a trained counselor or professional. Counselors are also available at walk-in locations or online to chat between 4 p.m. and 12 a.m.
Parents, however, can also be part of the problem. Cell phone behavior is learned, Voss said. So the community discussions emphasized the importance of not using the cell phone while driving or during family dinners or when talking with children.

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Parents need to model appropriate usage, he said. Were getting our kids ready for the world of work and you're present, you're focused, you're not checked out and you're not on social media and when you're in a business meeting.
Voss said when he walks into a school without a cell phone ban, the difference is palpable.
Students are walking around with their heads down, on their phones.
It's kind of like the zombie apocalypse and you have all these kids in the hallways not talking to each other. It's just a very different vibe.
Mountain Middle Schools structure and programming is adapted on the nationally-renowned High Tech High model with a heavy focus on project-based learning, integrating technology when appropriate into learning, and displaying and exhibiting students work to adults. Voss said that requires focus and collaboration.
The school tries to teach the skill of being indistractible focusing students on one skill, one concept, or one conversation at a time. Its not an easy task when many students attempt to do homework, listen to music, text and keep an eye on Netflix releases at the same time. Voss credits the cell phone-free environment as a significant factor in the schools upward trajectory. In the schools first two years, it struggled academically. But for the past several years it has attained Colorados highest performance rating.

Some parents and teachers worry that the cell phone could be interfering with young peoples identity formation, a critical time of social development when young people grapple with who they are and how best to communicate with others. Voss shares that worry. He said teaching social skills is equally as important as academic skills, for example, the importance of eye contact in a conversation. Students are required to do public exhibitions about their learning.
I do think the cell phone piece is a big part of why students don't know how to communicate well face to face, Voss said. He believes schools should be teaching students how to use technology appropriately and teach them that it can play a role in teen anxiety and depression.
In student advisories (homerooms), Mountain Middle School students learn social and emotional skills, take deep dives into the symptoms of anxiety and learn coping skills. Police officers also talk to sixth, seventh and eighth graders about the legal ramifications of using cell phones improperly.

Why doesnt every school create cell-phone free environments?
Ninety-five percent of teens have access to a smartphone and many Colorado school officials say its impossible to monitor them. Voss counts off the excuses hes heard for why schools cant implement bans. One is that there may not have enough Chromebooks for each student and so teachers rely on phones for internet access. Voss believes that technology needs to be prioritized in the budget so classrooms dont have to rely on phones. He also believes some administrators fear parent and student pushback. Its kind of like a digital umbilical cord for parents and students, he said.
I can't tell you how many schools I visit and they say, Man, I wish we could do that, but we don't have have the courage to do that.
But Voss believes the current mental health crisis in youth means that schools need to think hard about whats best for kids.
Let's remove all the excuses because we know this is what's best for kids. We're going to have fewer kids facing depression and anxiety. The mental health piece of this is huge and that can't be ignored.
Henry said kids do complain about the ban.
Everybody said like, Oh, I really, really wish I can be on my phone. But I think subconsciously everybody realized that it's good for them, but like nobody really realizes it. Nobody thinks, Wow, this is nice. I don't have to worry about this for seven hours. And that's one of the nice things is people may think it's a burden or it's like a punishment, but it's really there to help you be the best person you can be.
Most of the complaining is at the beginning of the year, he said kids are coming off a summer gorge-fest.
Grace and Henry think the cell phone ban eliminates cyberbullying and gives kids a nice break.
Theyll soon be headed to high school, where there isnt a cell phone ban. Its another change Grace has thought about.
I guess your phone is like more of a big deal in high school cause it's a lot more prominent of a way of communication, she said.

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i wonder what it takes to get to the level of dementedness of KamenRiderBlade

Maybe you should focus on helping students instead of worrying about random strangers on the internet.

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Right here.

The researchers note, however, that technology like mobile phones can be productive if used properly.

The way you want to use it, carte blanche holding of Smart Devices & LapTops by the students have proven to be more of a hindrance than helpful.

Leaving access to said devices by the Teachers & Faculty is a better solution than allowing students to bring their own devices.

"Schools that restrict access to mobile phones subsequently experience an improvement in test scores," the study says. "However, these findings do not discount the possibility that mobile phones could be a useful learning tool if their use is properly structured."

See, Restriction of SmartDevices carried by STUDENTS helps learning.

And the proper structure doesn't involve the STUDENTS bringing their own devices and using it during the classroom.

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And again, there have been evidence to the contrary.
https://www.sciencenewsforstudents.org/article/when-smartphones-go-school

Your own article backs my conclusion.

When smartphones go to school
Work and grades tend to suffer when there is off-task use in the classroom

In the United States, 73 percent of teens own or have access to a smartphone. A mere 12 percent have no cell phone. Those numbers come from a 2015 survey by the Pew Research Center in Washington, D.C.
Some 90 percent of teens with cell phones send texts. The typical number is 30 texts per day. Thats the median number from the Pew data. Additionally, the Pew report shows, 92 percent of teens go online daily. Almost one in four claims to be online almost constantly.
Talk about being distracted & Off-Task in the class-room.

How mobile devices can help in class
Smartphones, tablets and other devices can be very handy at school. Curious about something the teacher said? A quick Internet search can turn up more facts. Want to prepare charts and present top-notch class reports? As the saying goes, theres an app for that.
The typical U.S. teen uses a smartphone to send texts or browse the Internet, even at school. Sometimes that can help probe a class topic in greater depth.

Mobile devices make it easy to type and organize notes. Calculator apps can help with math problems. Devices can even replace heavy, paper textbooks.
And thats not all. If we have these devices, we can do a lot of things around student interests and projects, says Vincent Cho at Boston College in Massachusetts. For example, mobile devices often are cheaper and less bulky than regular computers. But, like regular computers, they allow Internet access. With that, students can share ideas and opinions within or beyond the classroom. Devices can connect interested students with groups and experts in that field as well.
Cho and Joshua Littenberg-Tobias, also at Boston College, recently surveyed teachers at a high school that urges all students to use mobile devices. In general, teachers felt these devices could improve learning, the Boston College
Keyword is the "Teachers Felt they could improve learning", no hard evidence backing it up.
team reported last April at a meeting of the American Educational Research Association. But teachers at that high school also were worried about their students becoming distracted.
And other articles I've linked have shown that it's a distraction.

And none of the suggestions requires the Students to "Bring their own Smart Devices" to get the benefits of said devices.

The school can literally provide said devices and let the students use it when appropriate.

https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=6260&context=libphilprac

This is from your own link:
According to the researchers own preliminary investigation, it was noted that despite the remarkable benefits of the smartphone in learning, students mostly use a smartphone on social media platforms such as Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram, twitter, snapchat, tango, rather using it for educational purposes. Those who in turn use smartphones are distracted by other functions with notification.

On the contrary, while smartphones provide communicative needs, their extensive use may have collateral damages on the physical, psychological, social, and the educational well-being of students (Kang & Jung, 2014).

<Kibona and Mgaya (2015) postulated that despite the phenomenal advantage of smartphone in learning it is considered as double edge sword where most of the applications such as WhatsApp, Facebook, and games, affect students in Tanzania negatively in all level because of its addictive nature. Thusly, it inadvertently steals away students time which affects their academic performance adversely. In the same vein, Lee et al., (2015) investigated smartphone addiction in university students and its implication for learning among 210 Korean female university students (mean age=22 years). The study revealed high-risk addictions and consequently rated themselves low on self-regulated using smartphones. Similarly, this study agrees with Ifeanyi and Chukwuere (2018) where smartphone consumes most of the users time and in addition does not enhance their academic performance but rather decrease as they envisioned before getting them as indicated by the majority 270 (72.0%). This is also affirmed in the works of (Lin et al., 2014; Tossell et al., 2015). In further elucidation, high excessive use of smartphones leads to complications which include vascular permeability, neck pain, and musculoskeletal disorders and mouse brain damages.

Factors that inhibit the use of a smartphone as a learning tool. In as much as numerous phenomenal advantages of the smartphone has been revealed, there are some inhibiting factors that halt students in their quest to adopt smartphone for their learning activities. In the works of Gikas and Grant (2013) students experience in mobile computing in higher education was focused. The study revealed that students were not willing to adopt smartphone as a tool for learning because of its small screen size as compared to a laptop which provides a wider screen, small keyboard, and serving as a distraction factor during lecture hours. Similarly, it was also found in the works of Sarfoah (2017) where 79% of the respondents agreed that smartphones make learning uncomfortable.

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Also, Sarfoah (2017) revealed that unstable or unreliable internet connectivity is a critical factor that inhibits students from adopting smartphone as a learning tool where 72% of the respondents responded in affirmative to this assertion. In the same study, it was found that some lecture content is not supported by smartphones. Also, 80% of the respondents agreed to the assertion that the smartphone device does get frozen at the crucial leaning moments. This occurrence according to general comments makes learning ineffective.

You know what won't get frozen at crucial learning moments, a good ole fahsion TEXT BOOK.

Further, in the same study, it was found that intruding calls may come in during learning (73%). This factors greatly distract learning by driving away their focus from the core purpose of being in class or a place or moment set aside for effective studies.
Exactly, more distractions, when you should be paying attention in class.

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Yeah, your sample size of 982 really is that good compared to my sample size of 130,000

When Schools Ban Smartphones, Students Test Scores Improve
https://www.govtech.com/education/k-12/when-schools-ban-smartphones-students-test-scores-improve.html
A new study, covering more than 130,000 students across England, looks at how cellphone policies have changed since 2001.

Funny how your entire article focuses specifically on remote learning in Ghana and not "Western Education" in general.

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https://www.learningliftoff.com/how-laptops-in-the-classroom-improve-student-learning/

Their research found that when schools provided students with laptops for use in the classroom and at home, learning improved in a number of subjects, including science, math, and English. Students received more feedback on their writing, edited and revised their papers more often, drew on a wider range of resources to write, and published or shared their work with others more often, Zheng concludes in the study.

When the SCHOOL provides the LapTop, it's beneficial

It doesn't just arbitrarily conclude that students bringing their own Smart Devices is beneficial.

It doesn't mean students get to bust out their LapTop whenever they want in class.

https://msutoday.msu.edu/news/2016/does-learning-improve-when-every-student-gets-a-laptop
Schools that provide each student with a laptop computer, as well as the appropriate support for both students and teachers, see significant improvement in academic achievement, a new paper indicates.
School provided only, not arbitarily let students bring their own personal laptops into the class room.

In the past couple decades, one-to-one laptop programs have spread widely, but so has debate about whether they are cost-effective and beneficial to educational outcomes, said Zheng, assistant professor of educational technology and lead author on the paper. I believe this technology, if implemented correctly, is worth the cost and effort because it lifts student achievement, enhances engagement and enthusiasm among students, improves teacher-student relationships and promotes 21st century skills such as technological proficiency and problem solving.
That means you need to setup the machine in a very specific way to improve the students educational outcomes.

Just putting a laptop before a student doesnt really help them with anything, Zheng said. Technology should not be implemented for technologys sake.
You can't just throw any old laptop at a student.

But one-to-one laptop programs, in which each student in a class, grade level, school or district gets a computer, can improve educational outcomes when there is teacher buy-in, suitable technical support and professional development for teachers, and appropriate implementation with the curriculum.
That's alot of requirements by the teacher, tech support, training of teachers, and curriculum before it'll even benefit said student.

That's not always an easy task in the busy life of a teacher.

The researchers reviewed nearly 100 academic studies on one-to-one laptop programs dating back to 2001, although only 10 of the studies were scientifically rigorous enough to use in a statistical meta-analysis in the paper. Zheng said more in-depth studies are needed to further identify what works and what doesnt with one-to-one laptop programs.
Only 10 / 100 studies were scientifically rigourous enough to use in a statistical "Meta-Analysis".

Not exactly a high vote of confidence.

With the price of some laptops now falling below $200 and schools in the United States and other countries using more computerized assessments, a growing number of schools are considering implementing individualized laptop programs.
Notice how it's "Under Consideration".

And it's not just a blanket solution to be thrown at the students willy nilly or a pass to let the student bring in their own LapTops into the class room.

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The learning experience is different in schools that assign laptops, a survey finds
https://hechingerreport.org/the-learning-experience-is-different-in-schools-that-assign-laptops-a-survey-
finds/

Assigning a machine to a student from the school is QUITE different then letting students whip out their personal LapTops whenever they want in the middle of class.

More than twice as many principals in 2017 said students in their schools were assigned some type of mobile device, like a laptop or tablet, than in 2015. Thats according to the Speak Up Research Project for Digital Learning, which found that 60 percent of principals who responded to its latest survey say they assign these devices, compared with 27 percent two years earlier.
Notice how the vast majority of these devices are "ASSIGNED by the school to the student".

High schoolers assigned a laptop or a Chromebook were more likely to take notes in class, do internet research, create documents to share, collaborate with their peers on projects, check their grades and get reminders about tests or homework due dates. Among high school students assigned these devices, 60 percent said they had emailed their teachers with questions. Thats compared to 42 percent among students without an assigned device.
None of this is affected by the "In Class Room / School" ban of Personal Smart Devices & LapTops that I propose.

A school assigned machine is heavily locked down and monitored by the school, quite different from your own personal device.

Evans said sending those emails indicates students are independent learners who have the benefit of a school support system. She connected it to the portion of students who get electronic reminders about tests and homework due dates. Among high schoolers with assigned laptops or Chromebooks, 53 percent get those electronic reminders, compared with 39 percent of students who dont have school-assigned devices, the survey found.
All activities that can be done outside of the ClassRoom and is not affected by the "In Class Room / School" ban of Personal Smart Devices & LapTops that I propose.


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The students have them too. They know better than some uneducated gamer boomer.

More personal attacks, how shallow and low of you.

The students have them because the devices (LapTops) are ASSIGNED to them by the SCHOOL.

A wildy different situation & scenario then bringing their personal Smart Devices into the classroom.

Or just when the student is using it without distraction. You assuming all students will automatically go for distraction is your problem.

Plenty of evidence has shown that students that bring their own Smart Devices & LapTops get distracted easily, especially when they have personal cellular internet connections.

The purpose of articles is to inform about potential flaws even if it's the minority. Like I said, there have been many articles on how video games are linked to aggression, addiction, bad grades, and social disorders. Does that mean this happens to every gamer? I really shouldn't have to ask this. It should be common sense.

Seems like more than a minority when Smart Devices are ubiquitious and nearly all students carry them in this day and age.

Those articles on Video Games, bring them up.

Let's evaluate your articles.

What's common sense is to want a learning environment in the classroom that isn't filled with countless distractions by the students personal Smart Devices & LapTops.

That is a completely seperate scenario from School Assigned Devices to the students.

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None of them supports your position that it's better if devices are banned in the classroom.
Meanwhile they all support there there are benefits to them.

All the improvements in grades & test results states otherwise along with improved concentration, focus, mental health.

All benefits of banning personal Smart Devices from the Class Room.

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Is that how you justify your shitty behavior and potty mouth towards me?

If the majority of schools including the top school are perfectly fine with devices then they're fine and it's you and the outlier schools that are the problem.

And yet there is change in the air and schools and countries have noticed the problem and are enacting change.

Just because we aren't the majority right now doesn't mean we won't be in the future. Change always starts somewhere. France is leading the way.

More like it's called you being a shitposter.

Rich coming from a selfish person who can't see beyond his own self interest and ignores hard evidence when shoved in his face.

Nope, none of your studies have said that. In fact it's the opposite. They've pointed out niche flaws (distraction) and given far more benefits for having them

You obviously didn't read the articles. Students performing better and more At risk students improving thanks to the benefit of Personal Smart Device bans.

Niche? You only call it that because you want every student to carry their personal Smart Device into the Classroom, and continue distracting themselves and everybody around them.

All the evidence you've provided comes in the form of "SCHOOOL supplied LapTops or Devices".

It has nothing to do with "Personal Smart Device/LapTop" bans


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