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UNESCO calls for ban on smartphone use in classrooms
(globalnews.ca)
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A debate about this in the Netherlands ended with a strong advice from the government to ban smartphones and watches in classrooms.
It does have a positive impact, yet I keep thinking about why we teach the way we do. Is the problem not that the ‘classroom’ is outdated and not serving the educational needs of today?
Educator here.
Absolutely not. Direct instruction with retrieval practice is the best way we know of to make changes to long term memory (learn).
Technology is absolutely necessary in a modern classroom. Smartphones are not. Children (<18y.o.) cannot handle the attention grabbing aspects of smart phone use. Or should that be that if a child has to chose between paying attention in a classroom and paying attention to a device, the device always wins.
We use our own smartphones as part of studying since the start of (equivalent to) high school. Teachers send us notes electronically, we read them there. Sometimes teachers may ask us to search something because they only have old feature phones and most of us have data. We even do tests on them via EduPage, although that one may not be the best idea due to the ease of cheating.
Sure, we do have computers at school, but the network is often broken, and many of them still run Windows XP. And those that got upgraded to Windows 10 have many issues because the hardware can't handle it.
Sure technology may be convenient, but it doesn’t conversely improve learning.