UNESCO calls for global ban on smartphones in schools
UNESCO calls for global ban on smartphones in schools
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.
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As a school student in a school where phones are banned, I think this is a bad idea. The ban achieves 2 things for me:
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Making it harder to check a fact or figure quickly.
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Preventing me from listening to music, playing games or browsing the web uring lunch break.
It DOES NOT stop me from becoming disengaged from the class! If I'm bored, I'll look out the window, play with a calculator or something similar. And of course the ban hasn't stopped many students using phones anyway. Maybe phone bans don't solve the issue of uninteresting classes after all?
Do you guys still play block dude on the Texas Instruments calculators?
We don't have those kind of calculators in the schools here. I just do the old-fashioned "input random sums and see what the calculator says".
I used to play tanks and snake
Oh, Block Dude. There is a blast from the past. Modern TI calculators can run emulators. What a time to be alive.
Well, you can fact check later right? If nothing else kids will learn to be bored again, which is good.
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