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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Teacher on lunch break:

OMG THE NO CELL PHONES THING IS AMAZING! For the first time in YEARS kids are talking to each other. They are introducing themselves, willingly playing my silly ice breakers, fully engaging with their peers.

If you haven't been in a classroom recently, you have no idea how much they've taken over and how little footing we had to restrict them.  Today felt like when I started 20 years ago.[/quote]

So did teacher post this from her phone while watching kids?[/quote]

Right? That's how you know it's a troll. I will be curious to hear how the day went though. Hopefully parents and teachers can report back this afternoon.[/quote]

I'm not a troll. I'm a middle school teacher on cloud 9 that my students might actually interact with each other this year.  It seriously is a magic bullet to remove the phones from the realm of possibility. One child had a phone snuck on her lap during one class today (quickly dealt with by admin), but every other kid followed the procedure and it was amazing.

All of the staff is smiling and positive. After first period we all were wide eyed in the hallway about how smooth it all went. Kids were acting like kids again, not screen zombies.

It remains to be seen if laptops will just replace phones (our students don't have computers yet this year), but we are all so optimistic.[/quote]

Yep, people loving “no screens” so kids won’t use phones to message friends, but then the school gives kids computers so they can message each other all day long.[/quote]

The county also has the new resource "lightspeed" to address this issue. As parents, you can create an account to see your child's online history at school (including youtube videos). Teachers have the ability to manage their classrooms, see what tabs/content students are viewing during class, and place limits. This is an excellent new resource and initiative! The county is doing what they can.  I am very thankful for lightspeed and for the phone pouches! Thank you FCPS.  And the governer for this new law![/quote]

Lightspeed was available last year.[/quote]

Not everywhere. We were introduced to it yesterday and it’s a game changer. You can see what tabs kids have open (and close them), if they’re on a game or other website, you can push the link to force their screen back to where they should be. You can lock and unlock their screens to redirect attention if needed . You can also create block lists, so anytime they’re on devices in my class (which is rarely), the games sites/youtube/instagram (where they will try to chat since phones will be in the classroom storage) WILL be blocked. [/quote]

Yawn. Just think - if the county never issued 1:1 laptops this would never even be an issue.[/quote]

I have repeatedly said I am absolutely fine with the idea of pulling their devices and going back to a laptop cart for when they need to use them for writing .  Until/unless that happens, banning phones and using lightspeed to block them from doing stupid stuff during class will work. [/quote]

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