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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I teach at a school with a phone ban. Kids quickly adapt to doing several “phone” activities on their laptops. The boys play video games all day or watch YouTube and the girls text on their MacBooks and scroll TikTok online. Or online shop. They are just as zombie-like, but with bigger screens.

I hope schools realize that phones bans are a great first step, but there’s still a lot of work to do.

Screens should be down when kids are trying to listen to a teacher. The video game playing habits of a few kids ends up distracting the students trying to learn. [/quote]

I agree, and it stinks that this has become your problem when it's the tech companies. In a world where there are innumerable paywalls and barriers etc etc, how has no one been able to invent a school-proof browser blocker? Why are games even allowed to exist if they can be smuggled in by students? I barely know anything about tech, so forgive my ignorance. I was a teacher until a few years ago and I remember the very smart IT dept just throwing up their hands and saying it was impossible to out-hack the students at their hacking. 
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