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UNESCO calls for global ban on smartphones in schools
  • That's my exact experience too. My school already bans phones, but that hasn't stopped me staring out the window or just sitting there and thinking to myself. A phone would be an improvement as I'd at least have a chance of looking up something relevant to what the teacher's saying.

  • UNESCO calls for global ban on smartphones in schools
  • 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:

    1. Making it harder to check a fact or figure quickly.

    2. 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?

  • Anybody else wishing this summer would just go by quicker?
  • Absolutely not. I love the summer and I feel far more alive when the sun's out! Unfortunately, here in Ireland we've been having lots rainy dull shite weather and not much sunshine. I wish the rainy dull shite would pass quicker.

  • What's the story behind your username?
  • I chose the username "computerfan" because I'm a fan of computers. Soon I found a website where that username was taken, so I added my (at the time) favourite number to the end and kept it ever since.

  • askBeehaw: should copyright even exist at all? and if it should, how long *should* the ideal term of copyright be?
  • I think it should be limited to thirty years at the absolute maximum. In addition, I feel as though copyright should have to be defended. If the copyright holder does not make their copyrighted work available for a certain amount of time, it should fall into public domain.

  • ooh it's here now!

    Didn't really visit the r/196 community on Reddit, but nice to see that it's made it over here! (Yes, this is for the rule lol)

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