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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My principal was clear that in a true emergency the pouches can be cut open.

But really, phones ruin classrooms 100% of days and true emergencies are exceedingly rare. Worth the trade off, IMO.[/quote]

How do phones ruin the classroom. Unless they are blasting music or causing a disturbance what is the problem?[/quote]

Really? You can’t figure it out in your own? If students are scrolling and on their phones the entire time, how much do you think they’re actually paying attention to instruction?[/quote]

There is a big difference between a kid who is in constant scroll and a kid who wants to check something at lunch. There are also kids who work better listening to music. We could just empower teachers to regulate their classrooms based on individual observations, rather than ridiculously demonizing one device that represents one piece of a problem that only some kids have. The propaganda on the evils of phones is out of control. [/quote]

That wouldn't work. Multiple studies have found that one student being off-task on a screen distracts anyone in viewing distance of the screen. I still remember first running across the Sana et al study referenced below around when it was published and being totally unsurprised based on my own experience in grad school.

[quote]In addition, device usage is distracting to neighboring students. In several surveys, students have reported that texting is distracting to nearby students ([url=https://doi.org/10.1080/87567555.2011.604802]Tindell and Bohlander, 2011[/url]). A study on laptops in a simulated classroom found that students in the vicinity of another student who was multitasking on a laptop during class scored worse on a test than those who were not near multitaskers ([url=https://doi.org/10.1080/87567555.2011.604802]Sana et al, 2013[/url]). However, a follow-up study found that it matters what one’s neighbors are doing on their computers; a neighbor who engages with off-task content has a more harmful effect on one’s comprehension than if the neighbor is on-task ([url=https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compedu.2020.103901]Hall et al, 2020[/url]). [/quote]
(https://bokcenter.harvard.edu/technology-and-student-distraction)[/quote]

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