A new UN report raised concerns on Wednesday about the excessive use of smartphones, calling for them to be banned in schools worldwide. According to the UN's education, science and culture agency UNESCO, the over-use of mobile phones impacts learning.
  • som@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    “Those students who use tablets and computers very often tend to do worse than those who use them moderately,” he adds.

    This is from your article and I could have saved them the money of doing this research. Also this is tablets not phones. They are allowed phones. You know why? because even they understand not everyone can see their house from the classroom window and need to use the phone to communicate.

    Limiting the use during class is all I am in for. Banning it from school is just idiotic.

    Also yes. I do think tech managers in Silicon valley are idiots. The biggest proof of that is we are talki g on lemmy and not reddit.