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Schools should just be one huge faraday cage. Kids have to learn to focus and pay attention.
And they need to learn the curriculum
I mean I’m not that extreme lmao that’s also a safety issue. Kids will be kids, they will not sit quietly all school day and be total lesson sponges lol
How much of a safety issue would it really be? Cell phones didn't really become a thing for my age range until high school. If there was an emergency, there was a landline in the classrooms.
Right? Somehow schools survived until at least the 2010s without every kid having a cellphone in them at all times.
No kidding. Not to sound like an old fogey but we did really well without them for both "emergencies" and "fact checking". I can only see them primarily as a distraction.
Yeah, it would suck for the staff, but I don't think it would be that much more unsafe. I don't think it's a good idea, but I don't think it's particularly unsafe.
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sadfasfasdfsaThose were tools. Smart phones are a distraction for social media 99% of the time.
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sadfasfasdfsaI already did unpack it: "Smart phones are a distraction for social media 99% of the time."
Nor did I say the word "just". You're both ignoring what I did say and inserting your own words. They can be distractions with you know social media. But also back in my day they taught us Word, Excel, programming. You had a class with that. You didn't need it in your pocket 24/7.
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sadfasfasdfsaYes you can find a way to goof off in any class instead of doing your work. Isn't that the whole point of this discussion? To remove ways to goof off, you know, smartphones. Ban them in class. And just like you can catch people playing video games in computer class, you can catch people using their phone in class. Just because some people will break rules doesn't mean we throw our hands up and say ok then no rules.
You're really comparing this to teaching abstinence? Wow. And then you rage against something as basic as rules, blaming rules for what seems like everything you think is bad. Ok then. Cheers.
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sadfsafasdfBan pocket calculators because the abacus exists. Lazy kids aren't learning how to do arithmetic because of them.
I don’t think y’all realize that not a single staff member or administrator or any employee of the school would be able to use a phone either (other than landlines I guess?). Schools aren’t just full of students lol
You mean that thing I specifically mentioned? Yes, I realize that. Would it be inconvenient? Yes, it absolutely would. Would it suck to work in that environment? Again, yes it would. If I'm just thinking about safety, I'm not sure it's that much more unsafe.
School shootings weren't really a thing until after you graduated you dumb fucking boomer.
Things change, and I'm tired of stupid trogladites inhibiting innovation because it's different than what they're used to.
Get with the times, or move the fuck out of the way.
I'm not a boomer. And I'm in no way advocating the use of a Faraday cage. Maybe read what is actually written instead of what you think was written. Hell I work in tech trying to get people up with the times...
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sadfasfasdfsaBut is it? Landlines can make the same emergency calls. A Faraday cage also doesn't mean you can't have an internal wifi that reaches outside that the staff can connect to, or even the students can connect through with a proxy controlling their connection.
I agree it's impractical. But it doesn't mean laptops and phones suddenly don't work. They can still work within the cage and you can poke holes through it with a landline and a proxy to control traffic in and out.
Ultimately, it's definitely not worth the engineering and the effort. I just don't think that safety is the reason it is impractical.
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sadfasfasdfsaThey're at the front of every classroom near the teacher. Along with several in the front offices, even the nurse has one. That wasn't difficult.
I've done active shooter drills in the military. The first thing you do is cover the window in the door, which is often by the front of the room where the phone is. The beauty of a landline is that it doesn't move. You can dial out to 911 and they know exactly what building you're in without you having to even tell them. The teacher doesn't need to hang out at the front of the room.
Yes, active shooter drills are exactly the same for the military as they are for schoolchildren and teachers.
What is different? Cover the windows to hide the number of people, hide, and barricade. You're also very conveniently ignoring the rest of the comment that addressed your concern. Care to try again?
No, but the attention span kids have these days seem to be shortening. Phones and the current state of social media intake doesn't help.
That said, a faraday cage is absolutely too far, but they don't need their phones when they should be focusing on the course.
I hear this a lot but have yet to see evidence/sources from anyone. It’s just “look around you.” I don’t find it particularly compelling. I didn’t exactly sit quietly as a kid myself.
Quick google search: https://santamaria.wa.edu.au/decreasing-attention-spans-jennifer-oaten/
It's a pretty well known fact that constant tech decreases attention spans, in both children and adults. How many times have we been on Lemmy/Reddit on the browser and picked up our phone to... check Lemmy/Reddit?
That appears to be a quickly referenced theory by one (yes qualified) person on one blog post without a study behind it. I could also argue that kids generally have short attention spans but social media just allows them to indulge in it more, and they will of course prioritize attention to that over other things. That is not the same as “it shortens their attention spans.” We need at least one study here or at least something more substantive than a one-liner linking social media and decreasing ones attention span. I’m not sure if you noticed, but blog is actually focusing on how to reach kids and strategies to get them to pay attention. It has one throw away non-cited line about social media shortening attention spans.
I should also point out that I also did a cursory Google search before writing the previous comment, and that was the only post I saw as well. The reason you selected it is because there was no other decent hit when you searched I imagine.
Let me be clear here, the only reason I am sort of arguing about this is because there is a really bad propensity for older people to say something is wrong with younger people. We see it over and over again. I think social media is actually very harmful to kids, but I have yet to see anything that shows it actually diminishes ones attention span. And the reason I really don’t like that claim is because it seems to be just another variation of “kids these days.”
Of course not, but I think we should at least act as if they should.
Knowing it’s not possible, though.
My kids are in 5th, 3rd and 1st grade. I wouldn’t want them on their phones during class as they grow up.
Like I said prior, I don’t think kids should be on their phones either.
Schools should be a battle royale, leave them on an island to battle and the last kid standing gets to go home.
How will this plan affect my real estate taxes?
Not well I imagine, but you'll get to see an epic battle every exam season.
They do that multiple times a week, it's called "phys ed"
The thing about smartphones and the internet in general is that there is a lot of crap out there. Sure kids may read more, but what they read matters. If they're reading websites that deny the Holocaust or give bogus health advice like bleach curing autism or things like that, that's not good. Without education, how are they going to know what they read on their phone is garbage?
Stupid.
I will learn the curriculum when the curriculum stops being wrong and occasionally straight up propaganda
Can't use that to explain Cs in math and physics.