100%. Every school through secondary schools ought to be phone-free, excepting extremely limited and specific situations. They are not helpful nor useful for any academic purpose I’ve ever seen and have only ever caused problems. #edutwitter theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
The extremely limited purposes include, as I’ve seen, glucose monitoring. I’m sure there are a few other cases — but for 99.9% of cases, there’s less than no need - the phones are actively and consistently problematic.
@CaponeTeaches Disagree. I have students who are way more willing and take better notes on their phone than their Chromebook.
@CaponeTeaches We need them in the US so our kids can text their goodbyes during a school shooting.
@CaponeTeaches In summer learning program where I work, students turn in phones Mon & get them back Fri. We have about 10+% drop out first week of those who can't stand it. The students who complete the summer sing odes to being phoneless.
@CaponeTeaches ABSOLUTELY. A parent does not and should not be attached via ATT every second of the day. If there is an emergency, call the office.
@CaponeTeaches Right instead of teaching children impulse control, we've moved to prohibition. Guess what? No job is collecting cellphones, so what are we preparing our students for?