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Students can also use technology if they have a disability or as part of an individualized education program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Florida passed a similar law last year and Kentucky, Vermont, Tennessee and Kansas are considering it. Supporters say the laws reduce \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/01/11/577101803/a-schools-way-to-fight-phones-in-class-lock-em-up\">distractions in the classroom\u003c/a>, cut down on bullying through social media and encourage more in-person interaction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many schools in the state — and elsewhere — already had these bans on their own. Now others will have to adopt them, though the law doesn’t spell out how to enforce them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>David Bloomfield, a professor of education leadership, law and policy at Brooklyn College and the City University of New York Graduate Center, said the law means more work for schools and staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The cellphones have to be removed from their persons, and they have to be stored somewhere away from that individual,” he said. “That’s going to take time. It’s going to take expense, and it’s going to take enforcement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bloomfield said some schools use technology-blocking software, but that raises questions about how students can use their phones in emergencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He also said the law’s lack of specific enforcement measures could lead to racial disparities in how the policies — or penalties — are applied.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s easy for states to require districts to have policies, but they’re really offloading the job to school districts, and then obviously to schools to enforce those policies,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Indiana Rep. Julie McGuire, a Republican and one of the sponsors of the bill in the legislature, said some teachers now don’t have the power to confiscate phones even when they create a distraction. She said the new law will reduce problematic behavior around social media and teach students to replace screen time with more face-to-face communication.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While we cannot control the amount of time students spend on social media outside school hours, we can provide reprieve during the seven hours per day that should be focused on learning,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democratic Rep. Matt Pierce opposed the bill, questioning the need for mandating what he said should be obvious.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“From the policy perspective, it makes sense,” he said. “The other part of me is like, really? We need a bill so a school corporation can have a common-sense policy telling its kids not to use these devices? I was going to vote against this bill just because I don’t think it’s needed, but now I’ve got somebody telling me that you’ve got a school somewhere that’s telling some teacher they can’t just take the darn phone away. I don’t get it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill was signed by Indiana’s Republican Gov. Eric Holcomb in early March. and the law takes effect July 1.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some districts, like Indianapolis Public Schools, will not be largely affected by the new law because they already have similar policies in place. Other districts vary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Westfield Washington School District, communications director Joshua Andrews said high school students there can only have their phones at lunch and between classes. However, middle school students cannot use their phones at all during the school day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you change something that big, it kind of makes people recoil a little bit. But, there’s been little to no problems with it since we’ve rolled it out,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other districts are still in the process of developing policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Terry Terhune, superintendent at Greenwood Community School Corp., said students at his schools generally aren’t supposed to have their phones out during class unless they have a teacher’s permission. However, the rules vary by grade level.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One of my goals is to try to meet with some of our neighboring school districts and see kind of where everybody lands on that,” he said. “Within our county, Johnson County, I would like to try to be consistent with other districts. But again, everybody’s going to have their own opinion on those things.”\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Kirsten Adair covers education for Indiana Public Broadcasting.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2024 IPB News. 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A \u003ca href=\"https://iga.in.gov/legislative/2024/bills/senate/185/details\">new law\u003c/a> with heavy bipartisan support requires school districts to adopt policies banning students from having wireless devices during class time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The law applies to cellphones, tablets, laptops or gaming devices. It allows exemptions for educational purposes with a teacher’s permission, in emergencies or to manage health care. Students can also use technology if they have a disability or as part of an individualized education program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Florida passed a similar law last year and Kentucky, Vermont, Tennessee and Kansas are considering it. Supporters say the laws reduce \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/01/11/577101803/a-schools-way-to-fight-phones-in-class-lock-em-up\">distractions in the classroom\u003c/a>, cut down on bullying through social media and encourage more in-person interaction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many schools in the state — and elsewhere — already had these bans on their own. Now others will have to adopt them, though the law doesn’t spell out how to enforce them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>David Bloomfield, a professor of education leadership, law and policy at Brooklyn College and the City University of New York Graduate Center, said the law means more work for schools and staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The cellphones have to be removed from their persons, and they have to be stored somewhere away from that individual,” he said. “That’s going to take time. 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She said the new law will reduce problematic behavior around social media and teach students to replace screen time with more face-to-face communication.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While we cannot control the amount of time students spend on social media outside school hours, we can provide reprieve during the seven hours per day that should be focused on learning,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democratic Rep. Matt Pierce opposed the bill, questioning the need for mandating what he said should be obvious.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“From the policy perspective, it makes sense,” he said. “The other part of me is like, really? We need a bill so a school corporation can have a common-sense policy telling its kids not to use these devices? I was going to vote against this bill just because I don’t think it’s needed, but now I’ve got somebody telling me that you’ve got a school somewhere that’s telling some teacher they can’t just take the darn phone away. 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To see more, visit \u003ca>IPB News\u003c/a>.\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Indiana+lawmakers+ban+cellphones+in+class.+Now+it%27s+up+to+schools+to+figure+out+how&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/mindshift/63470/indiana-lawmakers-ban-cellphones-in-class-now-its-up-to-schools-to-figure-out-how","authors":["byline_mindshift_63470"],"categories":["mindshift_21445","mindshift_195","mindshift_21579"],"tags":["mindshift_685","mindshift_866","mindshift_20816","mindshift_30","mindshift_1038"],"featImg":"mindshift_63471","label":"mindshift"},"mindshift_53905":{"type":"posts","id":"mindshift_53905","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"mindshift","id":"53905","score":null,"sort":[1562133456000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"frustrated-with-the-distractions-phones-cause-some-schools-ban-them","title":"Frustrated With The Distractions Phones Cause, Some Schools Ban Them","publishDate":1562133456,"format":"standard","headTitle":"MindShift | KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"mindshift"},"content":"\u003cp>Ask almost any teacher about their daily frustrations in the classroom and it won’t be long until you hear about students and their phones. Not only do teachers worry that their students aren’t learning because they’re distracted, but many also complain that constantly policing phone use damages their relationships with students. The issue has gotten to a point where some schools are banning phones during the school day, forcing kids to lock them up in little pouches every morning and unlocking them when the day is over.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Mateo High School plans to use a company called \u003ca href=\"https://www.overyondr.com/howitworks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Yondr\u003c/a>, which makes an opaque pouch for phones that is locked and unlocked with a magnet. The school piloted Yondr two ways, trying both an all day version with a group of students, as well as class specific pilots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was their testing subject,” said Edward Huang, a sophomore at San Mateo High on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101870858/high-school-locks-up-cell-phones-hoping-for-more-attentive-less-isolated-students\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">KQED's Forum program\u003c/a>. He would come to school early, put his phone in a Yondr pouch, go through the school day, and then return to the office to get his phone back at the end of the day. He also attended staff meetings where teachers and students gave feedback on the pilots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of students never noticed the difference,” Huang said.\"They actually noticed a lot of benefits. They were more engaged in class and socially.” For himself, Huang found it stressful that he couldn’t access his phone during the day because he needed to communicate with his baseball coach. He discovered that he could open the pouch on his own if he brought a strong magnet. There's even a \u003ca href=\"https://www.reddit.com/r/teenagers/comments/972r7v/yondr_pouches_anyway_to_get_around_them/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Reddit thread\u003c/a> about how to circumvent the system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before running the pilot, San Mateo High assistant principal Adam Gelb visited nearby San Lorenzo High School where cellphones have been off limits for three years already. He was impressed by what he saw there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was a different sound on campus; it sounded alive,” Gelb said. “There were students interacting with one another. There were students playing cards, engaged in rap battles, dance battles.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some students at San Mateo High understand why the Yondr pouches might be helpful to maintain focus during class, but are opposed to losing phone access during lunch and other breaks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Adults think it’s taking us away from the physical world, which is our human connection,” said sophomore Michiaki Sato. “I think the truth is that the technology is making us a new reality. We have a life on earth and we have a life on our phones.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Arienne Adamcikova teaches Spanish at San Mateo High. She piloted the Yondr pouch in her classroom and recommended that the whole school adopt its usage after experiencing how it changed the dynamic. She says taking phones out of the equation improved her relationship with students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was immediately beneficial,” Adamcikova said. “I no longer had to be this warden going around saying you need to turn that in either to my desk or the office.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But students say they do homework on their phones and access digital assignments during lunch. And while they agree that they and their peers are on their phones a lot at lunch, they don’t see anything wrong with that, pointing out that sometimes they need a break from interacting with people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel like students should have the freedom to choose if they want to be on their phone or they don’t,\" said sophomore Clarissa Chen. “There are some people who don’t want to talk to people and they don't want to just sit there and not have anything to do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students also talked about the anxiety they feel when they can’t check their phones. They know their friends are posting things and texting them and they’re worried they’ll be left out of the conversation. Their teachers understand that to a certain extent, but they’re hopeful that after a short adjustment period this new policy will lead to a better learning environment where students interact with one another more directly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think culturally we’re all going through this connective need to constantly click and check social media and what’s going on online,” Adamcikova said. “I think that we’re trying to push back as a whole school and create a new culture. A culture where if everybody is in it together, then we’re all engaged together.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, whenever adults ban something kids find a way around the rule. Just look at the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/31705/why-l-a-students-hacked-into-ipads-district-is-locking-us-out\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">iPad rollout in Los Angeles\u003c/a> and how easily kids circumvented the pre-installed internet filters. San Mateo High kids admitted as much. They’re already scheming ways to get around the new system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The idea of having Yondr is supposed to have a connection between teachers and students,” Sato said, “but now that students are going to be sneaky, it’s actually going to open up a bigger gap between administration and students.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says some students are already planning to bring “dummy” phones to put in the Yondr pouches, and everyone already knows the magnet trick, a flaw that Yondr says it has fixed in their newest version. Some parents are also concerned that if students don’t have access to their phones during the day it will be difficult to contact them in an emergency. Assistant Principal Adam Gelb says the school is putting in place new procedures to train parents to call the office in an emergency, instead of directly contacting their child in class.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I feel like we could do a lot better things with our funding,\" maintained sophomore Clarissa Chen. She feels the whole student body is being punished because a few kids don't have self control around phone use.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Phones are potent learning tools, but they've also become big distractions in many classrooms. Now, some schools are taking steps to reduce their temptation by banning their use during the entire school day.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1576870610,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":20,"wordCount":1015},"headData":{"title":"Frustrated With The Distractions Phones Cause, Some Schools Ban Them | KQED","description":"Phones are potent learning tools, but they've also become big distractions in many classrooms. 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Not only do teachers worry that their students aren’t learning because they’re distracted, but many also complain that constantly policing phone use damages their relationships with students. The issue has gotten to a point where some schools are banning phones during the school day, forcing kids to lock them up in little pouches every morning and unlocking them when the day is over.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Mateo High School plans to use a company called \u003ca href=\"https://www.overyondr.com/howitworks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Yondr\u003c/a>, which makes an opaque pouch for phones that is locked and unlocked with a magnet. The school piloted Yondr two ways, trying both an all day version with a group of students, as well as class specific pilots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was their testing subject,” said Edward Huang, a sophomore at San Mateo High on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101870858/high-school-locks-up-cell-phones-hoping-for-more-attentive-less-isolated-students\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">KQED's Forum program\u003c/a>. He would come to school early, put his phone in a Yondr pouch, go through the school day, and then return to the office to get his phone back at the end of the day. He also attended staff meetings where teachers and students gave feedback on the pilots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of students never noticed the difference,” Huang said.\"They actually noticed a lot of benefits. They were more engaged in class and socially.” For himself, Huang found it stressful that he couldn’t access his phone during the day because he needed to communicate with his baseball coach. He discovered that he could open the pouch on his own if he brought a strong magnet. There's even a \u003ca href=\"https://www.reddit.com/r/teenagers/comments/972r7v/yondr_pouches_anyway_to_get_around_them/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Reddit thread\u003c/a> about how to circumvent the system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before running the pilot, San Mateo High assistant principal Adam Gelb visited nearby San Lorenzo High School where cellphones have been off limits for three years already. He was impressed by what he saw there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was a different sound on campus; it sounded alive,” Gelb said. “There were students interacting with one another. There were students playing cards, engaged in rap battles, dance battles.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some students at San Mateo High understand why the Yondr pouches might be helpful to maintain focus during class, but are opposed to losing phone access during lunch and other breaks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Adults think it’s taking us away from the physical world, which is our human connection,” said sophomore Michiaki Sato. “I think the truth is that the technology is making us a new reality. We have a life on earth and we have a life on our phones.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Arienne Adamcikova teaches Spanish at San Mateo High. She piloted the Yondr pouch in her classroom and recommended that the whole school adopt its usage after experiencing how it changed the dynamic. She says taking phones out of the equation improved her relationship with students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was immediately beneficial,” Adamcikova said. “I no longer had to be this warden going around saying you need to turn that in either to my desk or the office.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But students say they do homework on their phones and access digital assignments during lunch. And while they agree that they and their peers are on their phones a lot at lunch, they don’t see anything wrong with that, pointing out that sometimes they need a break from interacting with people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel like students should have the freedom to choose if they want to be on their phone or they don’t,\" said sophomore Clarissa Chen. “There are some people who don’t want to talk to people and they don't want to just sit there and not have anything to do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students also talked about the anxiety they feel when they can’t check their phones. They know their friends are posting things and texting them and they’re worried they’ll be left out of the conversation. Their teachers understand that to a certain extent, but they’re hopeful that after a short adjustment period this new policy will lead to a better learning environment where students interact with one another more directly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think culturally we’re all going through this connective need to constantly click and check social media and what’s going on online,” Adamcikova said. “I think that we’re trying to push back as a whole school and create a new culture. A culture where if everybody is in it together, then we’re all engaged together.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, whenever adults ban something kids find a way around the rule. Just look at the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/31705/why-l-a-students-hacked-into-ipads-district-is-locking-us-out\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">iPad rollout in Los Angeles\u003c/a> and how easily kids circumvented the pre-installed internet filters. San Mateo High kids admitted as much. They’re already scheming ways to get around the new system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The idea of having Yondr is supposed to have a connection between teachers and students,” Sato said, “but now that students are going to be sneaky, it’s actually going to open up a bigger gap between administration and students.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says some students are already planning to bring “dummy” phones to put in the Yondr pouches, and everyone already knows the magnet trick, a flaw that Yondr says it has fixed in their newest version. Some parents are also concerned that if students don’t have access to their phones during the day it will be difficult to contact them in an emergency. Assistant Principal Adam Gelb says the school is putting in place new procedures to train parents to call the office in an emergency, instead of directly contacting their child in class.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I feel like we could do a lot better things with our funding,\" maintained sophomore Clarissa Chen. She feels the whole student body is being punished because a few kids don't have self control around phone use.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/mindshift/53905/frustrated-with-the-distractions-phones-cause-some-schools-ban-them","authors":["234"],"categories":["mindshift_192"],"tags":["mindshift_685","mindshift_20784","mindshift_1040","mindshift_21116","mindshift_21275"],"featImg":"mindshift_53907","label":"mindshift"},"mindshift_53910":{"type":"posts","id":"mindshift_53910","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"mindshift","id":"53910","score":null,"sort":[1561962106000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"at-your-wits-end-with-a-screen-obsessed-kid-read-this","title":"At Your Wits' End With A Screen-Obsessed Kid? Read This","publishDate":1561962106,"format":"standard","headTitle":"MindShift | KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"mindshift"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>This story is based on an episode of NPR's \u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/lifekit\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Life Kit\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>.\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Geoff and Ellie live in a suburban Chicago neighborhood that looks familiar from movies like \u003cem>Pretty in Pink\u003c/em> and \u003cem>Ferris Bueller's Day Off\u003c/em> — both filmed in the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They have three kids — Nathan, 5, Benji, 11, and Abby, 14 — and they're worried that all three are too into their screens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>An all-too-common experienc\u003c/strong>e\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ninety-eight percent of families with children now have smartphones. Young children Nathan's age consume over two hours of media per day on average, tweens take in about six hours, and teens use their devices for nine hours a day, according to the nonprofit Common Sense Media.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Technology overuse ranked as the No. 1 fear of parents of teenagers in a national survey last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As we sit in the family room, Ellie tell us how it feels to have a houseful of tiny electronic devices that travel with her kids into their bedrooms, to the table, in the car — everywhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're the first generation of parents that has to do this monitoring,\" Ellie says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Case in point: Nathan, her 5-year-old, is tugging at her sleeve:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Mommy, Mommy. MOMMY, CAN I PLAY ON YOUR IPAD? CAN I NOW?! PLEASE! PLEASE! \u003cem>PLEASE!\u003c/em>\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The problem with time-based rules\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How did Geoff and Ellie get here? They are not hands-off parents, nor are they lacking in rules. In the kitchen, Ellie has posted color-coded schedules for all three kids, which show when each child is allowed to use screens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the kids don't listen. They fight back and complain. And sometimes, with dad working full time, mom part time, and three kids with three different schools and three different schedules, the rules fall through the cracks. \"Give them an inch, and they'll take a mile and you're in trouble,\" Ellie says. \"It's exhausting.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At one point, all three kids are sitting in separate corners on the sectional couch in the family room, each on his or her own device. Nathan, the little one, is playing on his iPad, totally hidden under a blanket — head and all. As I talk with Abby, Benji looks up and comments, \"This is the most I've heard my sister say in a while.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ellie puts it this way: \"I lost my daughter when I gave her the cell phone.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I've brought an expert to observe and to give Geoff and Ellie some tips. Devorah Heitner has a Ph.D. in media, technology and society from Northwestern University and is author of the book \u003cem>Screenwise\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Heitner says she hears this kind of thing all the time. \"I think all parents are like, 'Can you just tell me how many minutes?' Or I'll go speak at schools, and people will say, 'Can you just tell me the device I can use to fix the problem?' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This misconception comes in part from the media, she says, and from companies — Apple, Google, Amazon — that advertise parental controls and settings as a magic solution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Heitner and other experts do say to draw a bright line — and be a little authoritarian if you have to — over two times of day: bedtime and mealtime. Research says that more than two hours a day of screen time for young children doubles the risk of childhood obesity. Staring at screens can interfere with sleep, not only because of blue light but because of the emotional excitement of media content and the feeling of urgency about responding to messages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in general, Heitner advises that families like this one need to switch from monitoring to mentoring. Policing their kids' device use isn't working. They need to understand why their kids are using devices and what their kids get out of those devices so they can help the kids shift their habits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The relationship between teens, screens and mental health is complex and multidirectional\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The real lightning bolt of wisdom on this comes from the oldest child, Abby.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Abby, who has braces and a short crop of curly hair, is snuggled in a hoodie. She starts our conversation speaking softly, but when asked what she wishes grown-ups knew about the phone, she speaks right up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Taking it away won't eliminate problems, 'cause it's not the sole reason that they existed in the first place.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Abby's mom has sent her articles about research linking teen depression and suicide to screen use. A 2017 article in \u003cem>The Atlantic \u003c/em>magazine — \"\u003ca href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/09/has-the-smartphone-destroyed-a-generation/534198/\">Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation?\u003c/a>\" — drew a link between negative trends in teens' mental health and the rise of smartphones and social media.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Abby has a point: The relationship between screens and kids' mental and emotional health may not be so simple.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"[People always say] the iPhones are the only reason kids are depressed and can't sleep and have all of these problems — not stress from school, from other people, from other things happening,\" Abby says. \"It's never the only reason.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More recently, a paper from Oxford University analyzed the same data featured in that \u003cem>Atlantic\u003c/em> article — more than 350,000 participants in three huge surveys — and arrived at a different conclusion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The negative relationship between teens' mental health and technology use is real — but tiny, the researchers found.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It is extremely, extremely small,\" says Amy Orben, the lead author of that paper and two other related studies. \"A teenager's technology use can only predict less than 1% of variation in well-being. It's so small that it's surpassed by whether a teenager wears glasses to school.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Orben's view, Abby is dead-on. As Heitner says, \"If you hand a happy kid a phone, they're not going to turn into an unhappy, miserable kid.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Heitner does caution, however, that devices can \"turn up the volume\" on existing issues. Children who have special needs or mental health challenges are also more likely to have problems with screens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This goes for Benji, the middle child. He has anxiety, ADHD and emotional disabilities, and he is prone to meltdowns. Heitner says, in cases like his, parents should consult a professional who knows the child, be it a psychiatrist or occupational therapist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there's another side to that dynamic as well. Some children and teenagers who struggle with mental or emotional health may find that zoning out and playing a game helps them regulate their emotions and avoid meltdowns. For this family, for example, letting Benji bring his iPad allowed him to sit through his big sister's eighth-grade graduation, and that's a trade-off the family is willing to make.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And kids can use smartphones to connect with others and therefore feel better too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a national study of teens and young adults, Vicky Rideout, a longtime media-effects researcher, found no significant relationship between the young people's self-reported mental health and how often they used social media.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The young people in the study who \u003cem>were \u003c/em>depressed didn't use social media more often — but they did use it differently, sometimes to feel better. \"One of the things that teens are doing online is searching for information and tools to help promote their well-being,\" Rideout says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This has been Abby's experience. \"When you're really upset, you can use your phone to distract yourself, or contact a friend who can help you, or use it to get your mind off the bad thoughts.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How to strike a balance? To start, try mentoring, not monitoring\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Heitner's work emphasizes a concept that's also put forth by the American Academy of Pediatrics in its \u003ca href=\"https://www.aap.org/en-us/about-the-aap/aap-press-room/Pages/American-Academy-of-Pediatrics-Announces-New-Recommendations-for-Childrens-Media-Use.aspx\">guidelines for parents\u003c/a>: media mentoring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As opposed to monitoring — with charts, schedules and parental controls — mentoring means understanding the media that kids use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Mentoring is knowing the difference between Minecraft and Fortnite. Mentoring is looking at the emotional effects of playing in a competitive mode versus a collaborative mode,\" Heitner says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's understanding that ... what your kids are doing is part of their identity, whether it's through the kinds of people they follow on Tumblr or the kinds of things they share.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Abby, for example, follows YouTubers who talk about important issues — emotions, mental health, body image, self-esteem. It's important that her parents understand what she is looking at so they can talk to her about it, share their own values and offer support if needed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This goes double if your kids encounter stuff that is more questionable — porn, video bloggers with hateful messages or bullying or drama with peers online. Parents can't step in and solve social problems, but they can be sounding boards for advice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Look for the good in your kids' media interests\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Benji, Minecraft is a social space where he plays with other kids and pulls pranks. He says he wishes his parents understood more about his screen use — \"why it's entertaining and why we want to do it. And also, for YouTube, why I watch other people playing games. When you watch sports, you're watching another person playing a game! Why is it so different when you're watching a person play a video game?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Abby points out that as kids get older, having their own private worlds online is kind of the point. \"There's a language that teenagers have formed though memes — it would be hard to explain\" to adults, she says. But Geoff, her dad, jokes with her about it: \"There are things that I understand, even though I'm super old.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Heitner reminds Geoff and Ellie that the distance they feel from their oldest is also a normal part of growing up. Ellie responds, \"That's a really important fact. I didn't think of it that way. I just thought of it as it's the phone's fault.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Work together as a family to make changes.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few days later, Heitner gets on the phone with Geoff and Ellie.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She tells them to get the devices out of sight and out of mind more often. This goes for mom and dad too, she says. Her advice:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Ban devices at mealtime.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Take Abby's phone away at night.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Impose more chores. Even the 5-year-old can put away his own toys, Heitner says. The older kids can do their own laundry and load and unload the dishwasher. Send the 14-year-old into the grocery store with a list. \"It's a source of self-esteem to get things done for the family and to be valued in the family.\"\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Introduce new interests. For Benji, Heitner says, set a goal this summer to try to reduce screen time and add something else in.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Try more screen-free whole-family activities like board games, a trip to the water park, or just a walk after dinner to get ice cream.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Ask Benji to monitor his own mood after he plays video games, say, on a color chart. Heitner says this can help him develop self-regulation skills. Instead of just fighting against the limits his parents set, \"it would be good for him to start to see, OK, an hour is good, but two hours starts to make me a little crazy.\"\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Little changes, big differences\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two weeks later, we checked back in with Geoff and Ellie to see how things were going.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They said that they sat down with all three kids with \"a bribe\" — their favorite Ben & Jerry's ice cream — to talk about making some changes to the screen-time rules.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nathan, the little one, was pretty easy — he's playing more with his toys now and reading books during snack time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Benji has made the most progress. He tells us he has been reading a lot more. He found a book series he loves, Wings of Fire, about dragons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He has advice for parents who want to help their kids cut back on screen time. \"If you have kids who are interested in fantasy games, maybe they'll like fantasy books, or if they're interested in sports games or animals, maybe they'll like realistic fiction.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His parents say his mood is much better. They're amazed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Abby, the oldest, has been the toughest nut to crack. But she has been helping out more around the house and doing more projects like cooking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She made edible cookie dough from a recipe she found online, and the whole family ate it together while watching \u003cem>Ferris Bueller's Day Off\u003c/em> — a bit of sanctioned screen time, because it counts as a whole-family activity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2019 NPR. 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Young children Nathan's age consume over two hours of media per day on average, tweens take in about six hours, and teens use their devices for nine hours a day, according to the nonprofit Common Sense Media.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Technology overuse ranked as the No. 1 fear of parents of teenagers in a national survey last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As we sit in the family room, Ellie tell us how it feels to have a houseful of tiny electronic devices that travel with her kids into their bedrooms, to the table, in the car — everywhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're the first generation of parents that has to do this monitoring,\" Ellie says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Case in point: Nathan, her 5-year-old, is tugging at her sleeve:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Mommy, Mommy. MOMMY, CAN I PLAY ON YOUR IPAD? CAN I NOW?! PLEASE! PLEASE! \u003cem>PLEASE!\u003c/em>\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The problem with time-based rules\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How did Geoff and Ellie get here? They are not hands-off parents, nor are they lacking in rules. In the kitchen, Ellie has posted color-coded schedules for all three kids, which show when each child is allowed to use screens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the kids don't listen. They fight back and complain. And sometimes, with dad working full time, mom part time, and three kids with three different schools and three different schedules, the rules fall through the cracks. \"Give them an inch, and they'll take a mile and you're in trouble,\" Ellie says. \"It's exhausting.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At one point, all three kids are sitting in separate corners on the sectional couch in the family room, each on his or her own device. Nathan, the little one, is playing on his iPad, totally hidden under a blanket — head and all. As I talk with Abby, Benji looks up and comments, \"This is the most I've heard my sister say in a while.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ellie puts it this way: \"I lost my daughter when I gave her the cell phone.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I've brought an expert to observe and to give Geoff and Ellie some tips. Devorah Heitner has a Ph.D. in media, technology and society from Northwestern University and is author of the book \u003cem>Screenwise\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Heitner says she hears this kind of thing all the time. \"I think all parents are like, 'Can you just tell me how many minutes?' Or I'll go speak at schools, and people will say, 'Can you just tell me the device I can use to fix the problem?' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This misconception comes in part from the media, she says, and from companies — Apple, Google, Amazon — that advertise parental controls and settings as a magic solution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Heitner and other experts do say to draw a bright line — and be a little authoritarian if you have to — over two times of day: bedtime and mealtime. Research says that more than two hours a day of screen time for young children doubles the risk of childhood obesity. Staring at screens can interfere with sleep, not only because of blue light but because of the emotional excitement of media content and the feeling of urgency about responding to messages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in general, Heitner advises that families like this one need to switch from monitoring to mentoring. Policing their kids' device use isn't working. They need to understand why their kids are using devices and what their kids get out of those devices so they can help the kids shift their habits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The relationship between teens, screens and mental health is complex and multidirectional\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The real lightning bolt of wisdom on this comes from the oldest child, Abby.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Abby, who has braces and a short crop of curly hair, is snuggled in a hoodie. She starts our conversation speaking softly, but when asked what she wishes grown-ups knew about the phone, she speaks right up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Taking it away won't eliminate problems, 'cause it's not the sole reason that they existed in the first place.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Abby's mom has sent her articles about research linking teen depression and suicide to screen use. A 2017 article in \u003cem>The Atlantic \u003c/em>magazine — \"\u003ca href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/09/has-the-smartphone-destroyed-a-generation/534198/\">Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation?\u003c/a>\" — drew a link between negative trends in teens' mental health and the rise of smartphones and social media.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Abby has a point: The relationship between screens and kids' mental and emotional health may not be so simple.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"[People always say] the iPhones are the only reason kids are depressed and can't sleep and have all of these problems — not stress from school, from other people, from other things happening,\" Abby says. \"It's never the only reason.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More recently, a paper from Oxford University analyzed the same data featured in that \u003cem>Atlantic\u003c/em> article — more than 350,000 participants in three huge surveys — and arrived at a different conclusion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The negative relationship between teens' mental health and technology use is real — but tiny, the researchers found.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It is extremely, extremely small,\" says Amy Orben, the lead author of that paper and two other related studies. \"A teenager's technology use can only predict less than 1% of variation in well-being. It's so small that it's surpassed by whether a teenager wears glasses to school.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Orben's view, Abby is dead-on. As Heitner says, \"If you hand a happy kid a phone, they're not going to turn into an unhappy, miserable kid.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Heitner does caution, however, that devices can \"turn up the volume\" on existing issues. Children who have special needs or mental health challenges are also more likely to have problems with screens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This goes for Benji, the middle child. He has anxiety, ADHD and emotional disabilities, and he is prone to meltdowns. Heitner says, in cases like his, parents should consult a professional who knows the child, be it a psychiatrist or occupational therapist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there's another side to that dynamic as well. Some children and teenagers who struggle with mental or emotional health may find that zoning out and playing a game helps them regulate their emotions and avoid meltdowns. For this family, for example, letting Benji bring his iPad allowed him to sit through his big sister's eighth-grade graduation, and that's a trade-off the family is willing to make.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And kids can use smartphones to connect with others and therefore feel better too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a national study of teens and young adults, Vicky Rideout, a longtime media-effects researcher, found no significant relationship between the young people's self-reported mental health and how often they used social media.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The young people in the study who \u003cem>were \u003c/em>depressed didn't use social media more often — but they did use it differently, sometimes to feel better. \"One of the things that teens are doing online is searching for information and tools to help promote their well-being,\" Rideout says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This has been Abby's experience. \"When you're really upset, you can use your phone to distract yourself, or contact a friend who can help you, or use it to get your mind off the bad thoughts.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How to strike a balance? To start, try mentoring, not monitoring\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Heitner's work emphasizes a concept that's also put forth by the American Academy of Pediatrics in its \u003ca href=\"https://www.aap.org/en-us/about-the-aap/aap-press-room/Pages/American-Academy-of-Pediatrics-Announces-New-Recommendations-for-Childrens-Media-Use.aspx\">guidelines for parents\u003c/a>: media mentoring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As opposed to monitoring — with charts, schedules and parental controls — mentoring means understanding the media that kids use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Mentoring is knowing the difference between Minecraft and Fortnite. Mentoring is looking at the emotional effects of playing in a competitive mode versus a collaborative mode,\" Heitner says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's understanding that ... what your kids are doing is part of their identity, whether it's through the kinds of people they follow on Tumblr or the kinds of things they share.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Abby, for example, follows YouTubers who talk about important issues — emotions, mental health, body image, self-esteem. It's important that her parents understand what she is looking at so they can talk to her about it, share their own values and offer support if needed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This goes double if your kids encounter stuff that is more questionable — porn, video bloggers with hateful messages or bullying or drama with peers online. Parents can't step in and solve social problems, but they can be sounding boards for advice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Look for the good in your kids' media interests\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Benji, Minecraft is a social space where he plays with other kids and pulls pranks. He says he wishes his parents understood more about his screen use — \"why it's entertaining and why we want to do it. And also, for YouTube, why I watch other people playing games. When you watch sports, you're watching another person playing a game! Why is it so different when you're watching a person play a video game?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Abby points out that as kids get older, having their own private worlds online is kind of the point. \"There's a language that teenagers have formed though memes — it would be hard to explain\" to adults, she says. But Geoff, her dad, jokes with her about it: \"There are things that I understand, even though I'm super old.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Heitner reminds Geoff and Ellie that the distance they feel from their oldest is also a normal part of growing up. Ellie responds, \"That's a really important fact. I didn't think of it that way. I just thought of it as it's the phone's fault.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Work together as a family to make changes.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few days later, Heitner gets on the phone with Geoff and Ellie.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She tells them to get the devices out of sight and out of mind more often. This goes for mom and dad too, she says. Her advice:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Ban devices at mealtime.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Take Abby's phone away at night.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Impose more chores. Even the 5-year-old can put away his own toys, Heitner says. The older kids can do their own laundry and load and unload the dishwasher. Send the 14-year-old into the grocery store with a list. \"It's a source of self-esteem to get things done for the family and to be valued in the family.\"\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Introduce new interests. For Benji, Heitner says, set a goal this summer to try to reduce screen time and add something else in.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Try more screen-free whole-family activities like board games, a trip to the water park, or just a walk after dinner to get ice cream.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Ask Benji to monitor his own mood after he plays video games, say, on a color chart. Heitner says this can help him develop self-regulation skills. Instead of just fighting against the limits his parents set, \"it would be good for him to start to see, OK, an hour is good, but two hours starts to make me a little crazy.\"\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Little changes, big differences\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two weeks later, we checked back in with Geoff and Ellie to see how things were going.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They said that they sat down with all three kids with \"a bribe\" — their favorite Ben & Jerry's ice cream — to talk about making some changes to the screen-time rules.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nathan, the little one, was pretty easy — he's playing more with his toys now and reading books during snack time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Benji has made the most progress. He tells us he has been reading a lot more. He found a book series he loves, Wings of Fire, about dragons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He has advice for parents who want to help their kids cut back on screen time. \"If you have kids who are interested in fantasy games, maybe they'll like fantasy books, or if they're interested in sports games or animals, maybe they'll like realistic fiction.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His parents say his mood is much better. They're amazed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Abby, the oldest, has been the toughest nut to crack. But she has been helping out more around the house and doing more projects like cooking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She made edible cookie dough from a recipe she found online, and the whole family ate it together while watching \u003cem>Ferris Bueller's Day Off\u003c/em> — a bit of sanctioned screen time, because it counts as a whole-family activity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2019 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.\u003cimg src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=At+Your+Wits%27+End+With+A+Screen-Obsessed+Kid%3F+Read+This&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/mindshift/53910/at-your-wits-end-with-a-screen-obsessed-kid-read-this","authors":["byline_mindshift_53910"],"categories":["mindshift_192"],"tags":["mindshift_685","mindshift_20784","mindshift_1040","mindshift_20865","mindshift_20568","mindshift_21116","mindshift_20816","mindshift_21159"],"featImg":"mindshift_53911","label":"mindshift"},"mindshift_50048":{"type":"posts","id":"mindshift_50048","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"mindshift","id":"50048","score":null,"sort":[1516869958000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"laptops-and-phones-in-the-classroom-yea-nay-or-a-third-way","title":"Laptops And Phones In The Classroom: Yea, Nay Or A Third Way?","publishDate":1516869958,"format":"standard","headTitle":"MindShift | KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"mindshift"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cem>\"If something on their desk or in their pocket dings, rings or vibrates — they will lose focus.\"\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\"Students are doing so much in class, distraction and disruption isn't really something I worry about.\"\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How should teachers — both K-12 and college — deal with the use of computers and phones by students in class?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the one hand, those sleek little supercomputers promise to connect us to all human knowledge. On the other hand, they are also scientifically designed by some of the world's top geniuses to feel as compelling as oxygen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So where does that leave teachers? Should you ban these devices in the classroom? Let students go whole hog? Or is there a happy medium?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This seemingly simple topic ends up being what one professor and pedagogy expert calls \"a Rorschach test for so much that's going on in education.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recently, the California state teachers' pension fund weighed in — as a large investor in Apple, the makers of the iPhone. In an open letter, along with another activist shareholder, they\u003ca href=\"https://thinkdifferentlyaboutkids.com/\"> called on the company\u003c/a> to study digital distraction among youth and to make it easier to limit young people's use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The letter cited a national survey that found two-thirds of K-12 teachers said the number of students who are negatively distracted by digital technologies in the classroom is growing. Of those teachers surveyed, 75 percent said students' ability to focus on educational tasks has decreased.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Research at the college level backs that up; a small, 2017 study \u003ca href=\"https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/students-are-better-off-without-a-laptop-in-the-classroom/\">at the University of Michigan\u003c/a> found students in an introductory psychology course spent up to a third of class time surfing the web to non-academic sites — even though they knew that the researchers were tracking their computer use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sounds ominous. But the debate over devices in the classroom has many more perspectives. I spoke with four professors, a high school teacher, a psychiatrist and a technologist to get a range of different views.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>No way, no how\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Allia Griffin teaches in the Department of Ethnic Studies at Santa Clara University in California. Her policy is simple: \"Phones/devices must be turned off and not visible during class time.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her reason is simple too: \"Phones are distracting. My experience has been that no matter how invested a student may be in a class discussion or lecture, if something on their desk or in their pocket dings, rings or vibrates — they will lose focus.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And she worries about missed opportunities to socialize face-to-face. \"Beyond being distracting, students also use phones/laptops/devices as objects to hide behind to avoid participating in class or interacting with their peers.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Frequently, Griffin adds, \"I will walk into a classroom on the first day of the quarter and will find 30 students sitting silently in their seats and individually texting or Instagram-ing on their phones. This is a tragic scene. The college classroom is ... a unique space to exchange ideas and thoughts and develop the ability to communicate with a variety of people.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\"Candy\" is unhealthy\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Katherine Welzenbach teaches high school chemistry in Overland Park, Kan. She, too, bans cellphones — and even backpacks, where phones often hide — in her classes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These devices are worse than distracting, she says. They can connect teens to cyberbullying, hate speech, sexting and other \"unhealthy\" experiences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Welzenbach is vocal about her stance, despite what she calls \"shaming\" of teachers like herself who take a hard line. \"Teachers who see cell phones as distractions are often labeled as being 'unengaging.' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She understands the argument that teens need to learn to use the Internet appropriately. But she uses healthy eating as an analogy: Don't give kids unlimited access to \"Halloween candy and Christmas cookies while they are still learning to eat a balanced diet.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Distraction has an upside\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What you're really talking about when you talk about laptop bans, says Jesse Stommel, is student freedom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Ultimately, I see strict laptop policies (and especially blanket bans) as a form of control,\" explains Stommel, who directs the Division of Teaching and Learning Technologies at the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, Va.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And that, he tells NPR, is a bad thing. \"I don't think the attention of students is actually something teachers can or should control.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stommel, who's been engaged in many debates over laptop bans on Twitter, calls the issue \"weirdly divisive\" but also, in the end, \"a red herring.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead of an \"authoritarian approach,\" he suggests a conversation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We can talk to students about attention and have them talk to us about how attention works for them,\" Stommel says. \"This is the kind of metacognitive work that is the stuff of learning.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Distraction, he adds, can actually be a gateway to learning. It can be necessary for \"peak experiences like making connections, having epiphanies, understanding abstract concepts.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There may also be times, he says, that the phone or computer can be an in-class tool. \"We can also ask students to use their devices in ways that help them and the rest of the class, looking up a confusing term, polling their friends on Facebook about a topic we're discussing or taking collaborative notes in an open document.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the other hand, says Stommel, there may be times and places to shut it down, too: \"We can ask students to close their laptops at particular moments, recognizing that it is useful to learn different things, at different times, in different ways.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Embrace diversity\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Catherine Prendergast, a professor of English at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, also believes that blanket bans are a bad idea. But her concern is a little different than Stommel's. She's thinking about students with special needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Federal law, including the Americans with Disabilities Act [ADA], extends to protect students' classrooms,\" she tells NPR. \"If a student needs to use a laptop as an accommodation, they have a right to do so.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But making the student ask to bring a laptop could be seen as an invasion of privacy, Prendergast says. Better to allow them for all: \"The ADA enjoins us to affirmatively seek to remove barriers to education and to make our classrooms more inclusive, not less.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong> Some students need to be device-free\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Victoria Dunckley, a Los Angeles-based psychiatrist and the author of \u003cem>Reset Your Child's Brain,\u003c/em> has a different perspective. She prescribes strict limits on screen time to young people who are suffering from a variety of psychological ills. She says she's encountered \"pushback\" when trying to shield her patients from using devices at schools that have integrated them into the classroom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>If your students are distracted, then improve your teaching \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Derek Bruff is a mathematician and director of the Center for Teaching at Vanderbilt University in Nashville.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says research finds that note-taking by hand can lead to better recall than note-taking by typing on a computer. The reason is that when you write more slowly by hand, you have to think through what you're hearing and put down only the most important bits; touch-typers tend to transcribe what a person is saying without doing much processing of what they're hearing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, Bruff adds, comparing those two scenarios misses a point that's backed up by even more research: Lecturing while someone takes notes is not a very engaging or effective mode of teaching to begin with.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If you're going to spend 80 to 100 percent of your class time lecturing, phones are going to be distracting to students,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What works much better? Getting students to collaborate and debate in small groups, for one thing. He's also seen anecdotally that, \"If you give students something productive and on-topic to do with their devices,\" it reduces idle browsing. He calls this the \"Google jockey\" approach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like Stommel, he believes there is a time and a place for laptops and phones, but also a time and place to exclude them. \"Sometimes you want three students around a piece of paper.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Fight technology with technology\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alanna Harvey is the co-founder and marketing director of Flipd, a phone app that limits the use of your phone. You can set a timer to lock yourself out of all functions except for basic texts and phone calls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not long after launch, they noticed that college students were among their biggest user base, and began aiming the app at educators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Our research and discussions with customers have consistently found that digital distractions are negatively impacting the learning experience for students and educators,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harvey argues that Flipd offers a fresh, not coercive approach. Rather than instituting a ban, the company encourages professors to offer extra credit for installing the app and using it during class.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Highly engaging lesson plans, as Bruff advocates, are all well and good, but they're no match for the latest game or social network, Harvey says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Some of the most engaging professors I know are Flipd customers,\" she says. \"Which I believe suggests that the problem isn't the professor, it may not even be the students, but it's the devices we know that are designed to influence and manipulate our behavior in many ways.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bring policies in line with values\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>John Warner, who teaches English at the College of Charleston in South Carolina, has been on both sides of the device divide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As recently as four years ago he had a policy of \"no laptops in class, except for specific, designated activities,\" and banned cell phones except for emergencies. But after engaging in debates online with Stommel and others, his position shifted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He sees himself as \"more of a catalyst for learning, rather than a conduit of information.\" In order to live up to that value, he in turn needed his students to be what he calls \"self-governing\" over technology.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Warner says it's been working well. He has small writing classes, with about 20 students, and he almost never asks them to simply sit and take notes. \"Students are doing so much in class,\" he says, \"distraction and disruption isn't really something I worry about. They're too busy.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.\u003cimg src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Laptops+And+Phones+In+The+Classroom%3A+Yea%2C+Nay+Or+A+Third+Way%3F&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"We asked teachers, professors, a psychiatrist and a technologist for their thoughts, and we heard a range of opinions on one of the most \"weirdly divisive\" issues in education.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1516869958,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":57,"wordCount":1721},"headData":{"title":"Laptops And Phones In The Classroom: Yea, Nay Or A Third Way? | KQED","description":"We asked teachers, professors, a psychiatrist and a technologist for their thoughts, and we heard a range of opinions on one of the most "weirdly divisive" issues in education.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"Laptops And Phones In The Classroom: Yea, Nay Or A Third Way?","datePublished":"2018-01-25T08:45:58.000Z","dateModified":"2018-01-25T08:45:58.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"disqusIdentifier":"50048 https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/?p=50048","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2018/01/25/laptops-and-phones-in-the-classroom-yea-nay-or-a-third-way/","disqusTitle":"Laptops And Phones In The Classroom: Yea, Nay Or A Third Way?","nprByline":"Anya Kamenetz","nprImageAgency":"Paige Vickers for NPR","nprStoryId":"578437957","nprApiLink":"http://api.npr.org/query?id=578437957&apiKey=MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004","nprHtmlLink":"https://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2018/01/24/578437957/laptops-and-phones-in-the-classroom-yea-nay-or-a-third-way?ft=nprml&f=578437957","nprRetrievedStory":"1","nprPubDate":"Wed, 24 Jan 2018 12:02:00 -0500","nprStoryDate":"Wed, 24 Jan 2018 06:00:00 -0500","nprLastModifiedDate":"Wed, 24 Jan 2018 12:02:36 -0500","path":"/mindshift/50048/laptops-and-phones-in-the-classroom-yea-nay-or-a-third-way","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>\"If something on their desk or in their pocket dings, rings or vibrates — they will lose focus.\"\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\"Students are doing so much in class, distraction and disruption isn't really something I worry about.\"\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How should teachers — both K-12 and college — deal with the use of computers and phones by students in class?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the one hand, those sleek little supercomputers promise to connect us to all human knowledge. On the other hand, they are also scientifically designed by some of the world's top geniuses to feel as compelling as oxygen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So where does that leave teachers? Should you ban these devices in the classroom? Let students go whole hog? Or is there a happy medium?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This seemingly simple topic ends up being what one professor and pedagogy expert calls \"a Rorschach test for so much that's going on in education.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recently, the California state teachers' pension fund weighed in — as a large investor in Apple, the makers of the iPhone. In an open letter, along with another activist shareholder, they\u003ca href=\"https://thinkdifferentlyaboutkids.com/\"> called on the company\u003c/a> to study digital distraction among youth and to make it easier to limit young people's use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The letter cited a national survey that found two-thirds of K-12 teachers said the number of students who are negatively distracted by digital technologies in the classroom is growing. Of those teachers surveyed, 75 percent said students' ability to focus on educational tasks has decreased.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Research at the college level backs that up; a small, 2017 study \u003ca href=\"https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/students-are-better-off-without-a-laptop-in-the-classroom/\">at the University of Michigan\u003c/a> found students in an introductory psychology course spent up to a third of class time surfing the web to non-academic sites — even though they knew that the researchers were tracking their computer use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sounds ominous. But the debate over devices in the classroom has many more perspectives. I spoke with four professors, a high school teacher, a psychiatrist and a technologist to get a range of different views.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>No way, no how\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Allia Griffin teaches in the Department of Ethnic Studies at Santa Clara University in California. Her policy is simple: \"Phones/devices must be turned off and not visible during class time.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her reason is simple too: \"Phones are distracting. My experience has been that no matter how invested a student may be in a class discussion or lecture, if something on their desk or in their pocket dings, rings or vibrates — they will lose focus.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And she worries about missed opportunities to socialize face-to-face. \"Beyond being distracting, students also use phones/laptops/devices as objects to hide behind to avoid participating in class or interacting with their peers.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Frequently, Griffin adds, \"I will walk into a classroom on the first day of the quarter and will find 30 students sitting silently in their seats and individually texting or Instagram-ing on their phones. This is a tragic scene. The college classroom is ... a unique space to exchange ideas and thoughts and develop the ability to communicate with a variety of people.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\"Candy\" is unhealthy\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Katherine Welzenbach teaches high school chemistry in Overland Park, Kan. She, too, bans cellphones — and even backpacks, where phones often hide — in her classes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These devices are worse than distracting, she says. They can connect teens to cyberbullying, hate speech, sexting and other \"unhealthy\" experiences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Welzenbach is vocal about her stance, despite what she calls \"shaming\" of teachers like herself who take a hard line. \"Teachers who see cell phones as distractions are often labeled as being 'unengaging.' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She understands the argument that teens need to learn to use the Internet appropriately. But she uses healthy eating as an analogy: Don't give kids unlimited access to \"Halloween candy and Christmas cookies while they are still learning to eat a balanced diet.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Distraction has an upside\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What you're really talking about when you talk about laptop bans, says Jesse Stommel, is student freedom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Ultimately, I see strict laptop policies (and especially blanket bans) as a form of control,\" explains Stommel, who directs the Division of Teaching and Learning Technologies at the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, Va.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And that, he tells NPR, is a bad thing. \"I don't think the attention of students is actually something teachers can or should control.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stommel, who's been engaged in many debates over laptop bans on Twitter, calls the issue \"weirdly divisive\" but also, in the end, \"a red herring.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead of an \"authoritarian approach,\" he suggests a conversation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We can talk to students about attention and have them talk to us about how attention works for them,\" Stommel says. \"This is the kind of metacognitive work that is the stuff of learning.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Distraction, he adds, can actually be a gateway to learning. It can be necessary for \"peak experiences like making connections, having epiphanies, understanding abstract concepts.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There may also be times, he says, that the phone or computer can be an in-class tool. \"We can also ask students to use their devices in ways that help them and the rest of the class, looking up a confusing term, polling their friends on Facebook about a topic we're discussing or taking collaborative notes in an open document.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the other hand, says Stommel, there may be times and places to shut it down, too: \"We can ask students to close their laptops at particular moments, recognizing that it is useful to learn different things, at different times, in different ways.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Embrace diversity\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Catherine Prendergast, a professor of English at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, also believes that blanket bans are a bad idea. But her concern is a little different than Stommel's. She's thinking about students with special needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Federal law, including the Americans with Disabilities Act [ADA], extends to protect students' classrooms,\" she tells NPR. \"If a student needs to use a laptop as an accommodation, they have a right to do so.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But making the student ask to bring a laptop could be seen as an invasion of privacy, Prendergast says. Better to allow them for all: \"The ADA enjoins us to affirmatively seek to remove barriers to education and to make our classrooms more inclusive, not less.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong> Some students need to be device-free\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Victoria Dunckley, a Los Angeles-based psychiatrist and the author of \u003cem>Reset Your Child's Brain,\u003c/em> has a different perspective. She prescribes strict limits on screen time to young people who are suffering from a variety of psychological ills. She says she's encountered \"pushback\" when trying to shield her patients from using devices at schools that have integrated them into the classroom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>If your students are distracted, then improve your teaching \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Derek Bruff is a mathematician and director of the Center for Teaching at Vanderbilt University in Nashville.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says research finds that note-taking by hand can lead to better recall than note-taking by typing on a computer. The reason is that when you write more slowly by hand, you have to think through what you're hearing and put down only the most important bits; touch-typers tend to transcribe what a person is saying without doing much processing of what they're hearing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, Bruff adds, comparing those two scenarios misses a point that's backed up by even more research: Lecturing while someone takes notes is not a very engaging or effective mode of teaching to begin with.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If you're going to spend 80 to 100 percent of your class time lecturing, phones are going to be distracting to students,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What works much better? Getting students to collaborate and debate in small groups, for one thing. He's also seen anecdotally that, \"If you give students something productive and on-topic to do with their devices,\" it reduces idle browsing. He calls this the \"Google jockey\" approach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like Stommel, he believes there is a time and a place for laptops and phones, but also a time and place to exclude them. \"Sometimes you want three students around a piece of paper.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Fight technology with technology\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alanna Harvey is the co-founder and marketing director of Flipd, a phone app that limits the use of your phone. You can set a timer to lock yourself out of all functions except for basic texts and phone calls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not long after launch, they noticed that college students were among their biggest user base, and began aiming the app at educators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Our research and discussions with customers have consistently found that digital distractions are negatively impacting the learning experience for students and educators,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harvey argues that Flipd offers a fresh, not coercive approach. Rather than instituting a ban, the company encourages professors to offer extra credit for installing the app and using it during class.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Highly engaging lesson plans, as Bruff advocates, are all well and good, but they're no match for the latest game or social network, Harvey says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Some of the most engaging professors I know are Flipd customers,\" she says. \"Which I believe suggests that the problem isn't the professor, it may not even be the students, but it's the devices we know that are designed to influence and manipulate our behavior in many ways.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bring policies in line with values\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>John Warner, who teaches English at the College of Charleston in South Carolina, has been on both sides of the device divide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As recently as four years ago he had a policy of \"no laptops in class, except for specific, designated activities,\" and banned cell phones except for emergencies. But after engaging in debates online with Stommel and others, his position shifted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He sees himself as \"more of a catalyst for learning, rather than a conduit of information.\" In order to live up to that value, he in turn needed his students to be what he calls \"self-governing\" over technology.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Warner says it's been working well. He has small writing classes, with about 20 students, and he almost never asks them to simply sit and take notes. \"Students are doing so much in class,\" he says, \"distraction and disruption isn't really something I worry about. They're too busy.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2018 NPR. 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So what's a parent to do when a child, possibly a very young child, asks for a smartphone?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We hear that smartphones can be addictive, that screen time can \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2016/12/26/505905246/screen-time-reality-check-for-kids-and-parents\">hurt learning\u003c/a>, but can't these minicomputers also teach kids about responsibility and put educational apps at their tiny fingertips?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To learn more, let's look at two families: one where smartphones are allowed for elementary to middle school-aged kids, and one where they are not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sydney Crowe is in sixth grade and has a smartphone. While she admits she mostly uses it for \"playing games and watching television,\" her mom, Patty, says that's not why Sydney got the phone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Patty's main concern was safety. When Syndey was in fourth grade, the bus missed her stop enough times to really worry her parents. Without means to call an adult, she would walk to school near a busy highway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's when Patty gave her daughter a flip phone. But Sydney never charged it — she forgot about it. To her, a flip phone wasn't fun. \"She wasn't using the junky phone,\" says Patty. So when her husband wanted to upgrade his iPhone, they decided to give the old one to Sydney as a hand-me-down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Patty says she rolled her eyes at the idea of her child having a smartphone, but ultimately decided to allow it for one main reason: peace of mind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the other side of the debate, there's Mercy Shannon. She's 9 years old and doesn't have a cellphone. She likes playing house, playing outside and singing on her karaoke machine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mercy's mom, Brooke Shannon, like many other parents of elementary school kids, faced the cellphone decision early on. \"They started asking for a phone in first grade,\" she says about her kids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brooke felt pressure from her children, yes, but also from other parents. So she started an online pledge that she calls \"Wait Until 8th\" to create a community of parents within each school waiting to give their kids smartphones until at least eighth grade — when most children are out of elementary and nearing high school. So far, more than 4,000 families across the country have signed the online pledge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to wanting her kids to have a break from screens, Brooke worries about the effects, specifically, of social media.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Children just don't have the brain development at this age to be able to navigate the tricky social situations that come with social media,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That isn't just a parent concern. Richard Freed, a California-based child psychologist and author of a book on the subject, wanted to research the topic after seeing an increase in the number of children coming to him with anxiety and depression.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His suggestion? Put some ground rules in place. \"I want parents to understand how remarkably powerful and seductive these technologies are,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many agree that there's no magic age to give a kid a smartphone. \u003ca href=\"https://www.commonsensemedia.org/cell-phone-parenting/whats-the-right-age-for-parents-to-get-their-kids-a-cell-phone\">Common Sense Media\u003c/a>, a nonprofit focused on kids and technology, says rather than considering the age of a child, focus on maturity. Some questions to consider are:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Are they responsible with their belongings?\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Will they follow rules around phone use?\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Would having easy access to friends benefit them for social reasons?\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>And do kids need to be in touch for safety reasons? If so, will an old-fashioned flip phone (like the one Sydney never charged) do the trick?\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2017 KUT 90.5. To see more, visit \u003ca href=\"http://kut.org\">KUT 90.5\u003c/a>.\u003cimg src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Deciding+At+What+Age+To+Give+A+Kid+A+Smartphone&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"It's a question most parents will wrestle with at some point — when is the right time to give my child a smartphone? 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So what's a parent to do when a child, possibly a very young child, asks for a smartphone?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We hear that smartphones can be addictive, that screen time can \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2016/12/26/505905246/screen-time-reality-check-for-kids-and-parents\">hurt learning\u003c/a>, but can't these minicomputers also teach kids about responsibility and put educational apps at their tiny fingertips?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To learn more, let's look at two families: one where smartphones are allowed for elementary to middle school-aged kids, and one where they are not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sydney Crowe is in sixth grade and has a smartphone. While she admits she mostly uses it for \"playing games and watching television,\" her mom, Patty, says that's not why Sydney got the phone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Patty's main concern was safety. When Syndey was in fourth grade, the bus missed her stop enough times to really worry her parents. Without means to call an adult, she would walk to school near a busy highway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's when Patty gave her daughter a flip phone. But Sydney never charged it — she forgot about it. To her, a flip phone wasn't fun. \"She wasn't using the junky phone,\" says Patty. So when her husband wanted to upgrade his iPhone, they decided to give the old one to Sydney as a hand-me-down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Patty says she rolled her eyes at the idea of her child having a smartphone, but ultimately decided to allow it for one main reason: peace of mind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the other side of the debate, there's Mercy Shannon. She's 9 years old and doesn't have a cellphone. She likes playing house, playing outside and singing on her karaoke machine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mercy's mom, Brooke Shannon, like many other parents of elementary school kids, faced the cellphone decision early on. \"They started asking for a phone in first grade,\" she says about her kids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brooke felt pressure from her children, yes, but also from other parents. So she started an online pledge that she calls \"Wait Until 8th\" to create a community of parents within each school waiting to give their kids smartphones until at least eighth grade — when most children are out of elementary and nearing high school. So far, more than 4,000 families across the country have signed the online pledge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to wanting her kids to have a break from screens, Brooke worries about the effects, specifically, of social media.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Children just don't have the brain development at this age to be able to navigate the tricky social situations that come with social media,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That isn't just a parent concern. Richard Freed, a California-based child psychologist and author of a book on the subject, wanted to research the topic after seeing an increase in the number of children coming to him with anxiety and depression.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His suggestion? Put some ground rules in place. \"I want parents to understand how remarkably powerful and seductive these technologies are,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many agree that there's no magic age to give a kid a smartphone. \u003ca href=\"https://www.commonsensemedia.org/cell-phone-parenting/whats-the-right-age-for-parents-to-get-their-kids-a-cell-phone\">Common Sense Media\u003c/a>, a nonprofit focused on kids and technology, says rather than considering the age of a child, focus on maturity. Some questions to consider are:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Are they responsible with their belongings?\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Will they follow rules around phone use?\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Would having easy access to friends benefit them for social reasons?\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>And do kids need to be in touch for safety reasons? If so, will an old-fashioned flip phone (like the one Sydney never charged) do the trick?\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2017 KUT 90.5. To see more, visit \u003ca href=\"http://kut.org\">KUT 90.5\u003c/a>.\u003cimg src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Deciding+At+What+Age+To+Give+A+Kid+A+Smartphone&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/mindshift/49742/deciding-at-what-age-to-give-a-kid-a-smartphone","authors":["byline_mindshift_49742"],"categories":["mindshift_192"],"tags":["mindshift_685","mindshift_20525","mindshift_20784","mindshift_1040","mindshift_21116"],"featImg":"mindshift_49743","label":"mindshift"},"mindshift_14760":{"type":"posts","id":"mindshift_14760","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"mindshift","id":"14760","score":null,"sort":[1314292150000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"class-turn-on-your-cell-phones-its-time-to-text","title":"Class, Turn On Your Cell Phones: It's Time to Text","publishDate":1314292150,"format":"aside","headTitle":"MindShift | KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"mindshift"},"content":"\u003cdiv class=\"module image alignleft mceTemp\" style=\"width: 300px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-14817\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2011/08/87549956-300x193.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"193\">\n\u003cp class=\"wp-media-credit\">Getty\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>As we \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2011/08/to-ban-or-not-to-ban-schools-must-decide-cell-phone-policies/\">noted earlier this week\u003c/a>, cell phones are in the hands of the vast majority of adults and whether schools like it or not, they're in the hands of most students. While many schools still see cellphones as a distraction rather than as an educational tool, it's hard to deny that these devices are quickly becoming the primary means by which we communicate, in or out of schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For most teens, it's not the \"phone\" part of a cellphone that they use most. Rather it's text-messaging. A \u003ca href=\"http://pewresearch.org/pubs/1572/teens-cell-phones-text-messages\">Pew survey\u003c/a> from last summer found that one in three teens sends more than 100 text messages a day -- more than 3,000 messages per month. Statistics like this point to all sorts of possibilities for educational opportunities around texting, particularly if you want to tap into the tools that they're already using.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\n\u003cp>Classrooms can use the service to take quick polls and quizzes, filter messages, get news updates, take notes, and organize group study -- all in real time.\u003c/p>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>But text-messaging has other benefits as well. Unlike apps that are only available on certain smartphones or mobile websites that are only accessible on Internet-enabled devices, text-messaging is widely available. This makes it an important and accessible communication tool, one that can meet the needs of schools and communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meeting that need is the goal of \u003ca href=\"http://cel.ly\">Celly, \u003c/a>a startup out of Portland, Oregon. A simple description of the new company: Celly offers SMS-based group messaging. Anyone can create or join a group by visiting the website or by sending a text to C-E-L-L-Y (2-3-5-5-9). And it's free to use (not counting what phone companies charge for messaging).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Classrooms can use the service to take quick polls and quizzes, filter messages, get news updates, take notes, and organize group study -- all in real time.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though it might seem like a simple premise, Celly's messaging tool is actually quite multi-faceted, and the founding team -- Russell Okamoto and Greg Passmore -- aim to \u003ca href=\"http://cel.ly/forschools\">make it work for schools \u003c/a>and civic organizations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the school setting, specifically, considering the privacy and safety issues that arise around any social network, particularly a network used by teachers and students, is a top priority. Messaging via Celly happens without sharing phone numbers, for example, and there are a number of controls that allow group administrators to approve or kick people. Groups -- or as Celly calls them \"cells\" -- all have unique names and can be private or public, the latter being indexed by search engines. The cells can be configured to be open, allowing anyone to send messages; they can be moderated, so that the administrator must approve each message; or they can be alert-only, so that only the cell's administrator can message group members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Messages can be accessed via cellphones (obviously), but also via the Web. Celly also has a polling feature, so that cellphones can be used in lieu of devices like \"clickers\" to poll and quiz students in class. Celly also gives users the ability to @-message themselves for quick note-taking. And with no limits on the number of people that can join a cell, small groups can use it for study groups, classes can use it for discussions, and entire schools can use it for messaging.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cells can also be set up with \"receptors,\" allowing them to track any Web feed and filter messages based on certain hashtags or locations. This means that the cells can be used to organize and aggregate content, and as cells can be connected -- via these receptors -- to other cells, it could be a way for grades, schools, districts, for example, to automate information flow. A classroom's cell could get updates when a certain blog was updated, for example, or an administrator's cell could get updates summarizing activity from all the various cells and groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In other words, Celly can be used to send messages home from school -- reminders about homework assignments, for example -- but it can also be used to monitor local and relevant news and information -- all in real-time, all sent to users' cellphones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Celly is developing Android and iPhone apps, but it's working to make sure that its tool is available to anyone, whether or not they can afford a smartphone. The startup also wants to meet the needs of its users first. Beta testers include a number of Portland area high school teachers, as well as the city's Gang Violence Task Force.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":null,"status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1314377934,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":14,"wordCount":766},"headData":{"title":"Class, Turn On Your Cell Phones: It's Time to Text | KQED","description":"Getty As we noted earlier this week, cell phones are in the hands of the vast majority of adults and whether schools like it or not, they're in the hands of most students. 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While many schools still see cellphones as a distraction rather than as an educational tool, it's hard to deny that these devices are quickly becoming the primary means by which we communicate, in or out of schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For most teens, it's not the \"phone\" part of a cellphone that they use most. Rather it's text-messaging. A \u003ca href=\"http://pewresearch.org/pubs/1572/teens-cell-phones-text-messages\">Pew survey\u003c/a> from last summer found that one in three teens sends more than 100 text messages a day -- more than 3,000 messages per month. Statistics like this point to all sorts of possibilities for educational opportunities around texting, particularly if you want to tap into the tools that they're already using.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\n\u003cp>Classrooms can use the service to take quick polls and quizzes, filter messages, get news updates, take notes, and organize group study -- all in real time.\u003c/p>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>But text-messaging has other benefits as well. Unlike apps that are only available on certain smartphones or mobile websites that are only accessible on Internet-enabled devices, text-messaging is widely available. This makes it an important and accessible communication tool, one that can meet the needs of schools and communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meeting that need is the goal of \u003ca href=\"http://cel.ly\">Celly, \u003c/a>a startup out of Portland, Oregon. A simple description of the new company: Celly offers SMS-based group messaging. Anyone can create or join a group by visiting the website or by sending a text to C-E-L-L-Y (2-3-5-5-9). And it's free to use (not counting what phone companies charge for messaging).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Classrooms can use the service to take quick polls and quizzes, filter messages, get news updates, take notes, and organize group study -- all in real time.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though it might seem like a simple premise, Celly's messaging tool is actually quite multi-faceted, and the founding team -- Russell Okamoto and Greg Passmore -- aim to \u003ca href=\"http://cel.ly/forschools\">make it work for schools \u003c/a>and civic organizations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the school setting, specifically, considering the privacy and safety issues that arise around any social network, particularly a network used by teachers and students, is a top priority. Messaging via Celly happens without sharing phone numbers, for example, and there are a number of controls that allow group administrators to approve or kick people. Groups -- or as Celly calls them \"cells\" -- all have unique names and can be private or public, the latter being indexed by search engines. The cells can be configured to be open, allowing anyone to send messages; they can be moderated, so that the administrator must approve each message; or they can be alert-only, so that only the cell's administrator can message group members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Messages can be accessed via cellphones (obviously), but also via the Web. Celly also has a polling feature, so that cellphones can be used in lieu of devices like \"clickers\" to poll and quiz students in class. Celly also gives users the ability to @-message themselves for quick note-taking. 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Without them, chaos would ensue. But some rules are worth questioning, especially when the consequences negate their very purpose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Teachers are grappling with how to address regulations they consider unnecessary at best and harmful at worst. There's no question that helpful guidelines can and should be put in place surrounding all of these issues, considering the privacy of both teachers and students. It's the outright banning that seems extreme, especially when many of these examples can be used in rich, educational contexts. The metaphor of throwing the baby out with the bathwater is most apropos in these scenarios.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>FACEBOOK\u003c/strong>. As we've been hearing for the past few weeks, Missouri \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2011/08/questioning-facebook-in-school/\">has banned teachers\u003c/a> from using Facebook (and other social media) to communicate with students. A couple of days ago, \u003ca href=\"http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/08/online-student-teacher-communications/\">Wired reported that\u003c/a> \"a union representing 44,000 Missouri public school teachers is challenging a state law that dramatically restricts their online speech with current and former students. The lawsuit targets the legislation as a First Amendment breach.\" Meanwhile, in many cases, teachers have found \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2011/08/50-reasons-to-invite-facebook-into-your-classroom/\">lots of ways to use Facebook in the classroom\u003c/a>.\u003cstrong>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>TWITTER. \u003c/strong>Teachers are\u003ca href=\"http://oldnortheast.patch.com/articles/teachers-banned-from-using-facebook-or-twitter-with-students\"> banned from using Twitter \u003c/a>in schools in Pinellas County, Florida. “I don’t know what information is being transmitted,” said school board attorney Jim Robinson of private communication with students in a \u003ca href=\"http://oldnortheast.patch.com/articles/teachers-banned-from-using-facebook-or-twitter-with-students\">Patch.com article\u003c/a>. But couldn't that be said of any kind of communication, including simple conversation? An article in the \u003ca href=\"http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2009/jun/10/teacher-banned-twitter\">U.K.'s Guardian\u003c/a> reports that teachers have been banned from using Twitter after one teacher's controversial public post. In response, a teacher wrote: \"Wouldn't you love to live in a place where public workers aren't allowed to express personal opinion? You now have the choice of China or Argyll, it seems.\" Meanwhile, teachers continue to find \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2011/07/28-creative-ideas-for-teaching-with-twitter/\">creative ways for using Twitter in school.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/a>\u003cstrong>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>CELL PHONES FOR TEACHERS.\u003c/strong> We've\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2011/08/to-ban-or-not-to-ban-schools-must-decide-cell-phone-policies/#comments\"> written about cell phone bans \u003c/a>and heard from a number of educators who express their frustrations as their individual schools try to figure out how or whether to allow students to use them. But it turns out that some schools are also banning teachers from using their own mobile phones. On\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.scholastic.com/practical_leadership/2010/08/career-questions-cellphones-for-teachers.html\"> Scholastic's Practical Leadership blog, \u003c/a>a teacher wrote in to say that \"to 'set a good example,' our principal has decided that teachers shouldn’t use [cell phones] either.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>YOUTUBE, SKYPE, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC, AND MANY OTHER WEBSITES. \u003c/strong>Schools unilaterally block a long list of sites (read \"\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2011/04/eight-surprising-webites-schools-cant-access/\">Eight Surprising Websites Schools Can't Access\u003c/a>\") under the guise of different federal laws that are meant to protect kids. But even the Department of Education's Karen Cator counters with useful facts that support unblocking many of these educational sites (read \"\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2011/04/straight-from-the-doe-facts-about-blocking-sites-in-schools/\">Straight from the DOE: Dispelling Myths About Blocked Sites.)\u003c/a>\"\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>As technologies evolve, so will school rules that define the best ways of using them. In the meantime, many teachers are flouting policy and taking it upon themselves to decide what's best for their students and for their teaching practice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":null,"status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1314217501,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":5,"wordCount":521},"headData":{"title":"Which Rules Are Worth Circumventing? | KQED","description":"Flickr:Bark Rules are important in any civilized society. Without them, chaos would ensue. But some rules are worth questioning, especially when the consequences negate their very purpose. Teachers are grappling with how to address regulations they consider unnecessary at best and harmful at worst. 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Without them, chaos would ensue. But some rules are worth questioning, especially when the consequences negate their very purpose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Teachers are grappling with how to address regulations they consider unnecessary at best and harmful at worst. There's no question that helpful guidelines can and should be put in place surrounding all of these issues, considering the privacy of both teachers and students. It's the outright banning that seems extreme, especially when many of these examples can be used in rich, educational contexts. The metaphor of throwing the baby out with the bathwater is most apropos in these scenarios.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>FACEBOOK\u003c/strong>. As we've been hearing for the past few weeks, Missouri \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2011/08/questioning-facebook-in-school/\">has banned teachers\u003c/a> from using Facebook (and other social media) to communicate with students. A couple of days ago, \u003ca href=\"http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/08/online-student-teacher-communications/\">Wired reported that\u003c/a> \"a union representing 44,000 Missouri public school teachers is challenging a state law that dramatically restricts their online speech with current and former students. 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An article in the \u003ca href=\"http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2009/jun/10/teacher-banned-twitter\">U.K.'s Guardian\u003c/a> reports that teachers have been banned from using Twitter after one teacher's controversial public post. In response, a teacher wrote: \"Wouldn't you love to live in a place where public workers aren't allowed to express personal opinion? You now have the choice of China or Argyll, it seems.\" Meanwhile, teachers continue to find \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2011/07/28-creative-ideas-for-teaching-with-twitter/\">creative ways for using Twitter in school.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/a>\u003cstrong>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>CELL PHONES FOR TEACHERS.\u003c/strong> We've\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2011/08/to-ban-or-not-to-ban-schools-must-decide-cell-phone-policies/#comments\"> written about cell phone bans \u003c/a>and heard from a number of educators who express their frustrations as their individual schools try to figure out how or whether to allow students to use them. But it turns out that some schools are also banning teachers from using their own mobile phones. On\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.scholastic.com/practical_leadership/2010/08/career-questions-cellphones-for-teachers.html\"> Scholastic's Practical Leadership blog, \u003c/a>a teacher wrote in to say that \"to 'set a good example,' our principal has decided that teachers shouldn’t use [cell phones] either.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>YOUTUBE, SKYPE, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC, AND MANY OTHER WEBSITES. \u003c/strong>Schools unilaterally block a long list of sites (read \"\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2011/04/eight-surprising-webites-schools-cant-access/\">Eight Surprising Websites Schools Can't Access\u003c/a>\") under the guise of different federal laws that are meant to protect kids. But even the Department of Education's Karen Cator counters with useful facts that support unblocking many of these educational sites (read \"\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2011/04/straight-from-the-doe-facts-about-blocking-sites-in-schools/\">Straight from the DOE: Dispelling Myths About Blocked Sites.)\u003c/a>\"\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>As technologies evolve, so will school rules that define the best ways of using them. 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Over half of all adult mobile phone owners had used their phones at least once to get information they needed right away. And more than a quarter said that they had experienced a situation in the previous month in which they had trouble doing something because they did not have their phones at hand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The findings of this Pew research -- the reliance of adults on their cellphones -- stands in sharp contrast to the policies of many schools, where cellphones remained banned or restricted. Students likely have these same needs as adults: to get online and find information they need right away. But often students are banned from using their cell phones in schools, something that students themselves list as \u003ca href=\"http://www.tomorrow.org/speakup/speakup_reports.html\">one of the greatest obstacles\u003c/a> they face in using technology in the classroom.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">Students are \"asked to do research on a desktop computer that absolutely has less processing power than the computer in their pocket.\"\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>For many schools, these are formal rules, written in school policy or in student handbooks. But as phones become like more extended appendages in everyone's lives, schools are rethinking their policies. \u003ca href=\"https://plus.google.com/108741250435676131889/posts/9ovYDdCZzAB\">MindShift asked\u003c/a> teachers how or whether these rules were changing and received some interesting feedback.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Educator Nilda Vargas reported that students can use cell phones to access their online books, while teacher Shekema Silveri replied that although she requires cell phone usage in her class, the school policy against it hasn't changed. \"Most teachers are still afraid of cell phones in the classroom because they know little about how to use them as a tool for learning,\" she wrote on \u003ca href=\"http://www.facebook.com/MindShift.KQED\">MindShift's Facebook page\u003c/a>.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>High school teacher Kim Ibarra said that her school has gone from a \"no cell phones in school at all -- not even in the hallways or at lunch\" policy about four to five years ago, to \"cell phone usage in the classroom \u003cem>if\u003c/em> the teacher has asked for permission ahead of time with an explanation of what will be done and why it is necessary\" about two years ago, to \"cell phones can be used in the classroom if the teacher has students using them for educational purposes\" last year, and back to the more prohibitive \"students may use cell phones in the school only at lunch in a specified area\" -- the policy for this upcoming year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many teachers noted that written policies don't always mirror informal policies, and thatthere's a groundswell of those who recognize that cellphones need not be seen solely as distractions or as ways for students to cheat. More educators are realizing that cell phones can enhance learning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>High school teacher Jamie Williams describes his school's policy regarding cell phones:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"My high school's policy is cell phones should be off and out of sight. If seen, they are taken and the student is written up. Our handbook says students may use phones with teacher permission. I'm a huge tech nerd and make my students use their phones throughout my class. My biggest gripe is that most students have these great smartphones and barely use the device to a tenth of their potential.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Williams teaches art and technology classes. For his art class, he asks students to use photos they've taken on their cell phones as the basis for paintings they'll create. During tests, Williams allows his students to use both their handwritten notes and those they've saved on their phones. In his video class, most students have phones capable of shooting in high definition, and use them for projects. This year, he's hoping to make a large-scale mosaic of student life created solely from cell phone images.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Williams notes that it's difficult for students to have to go from one class where they're expected to make full use of their phones to another in which the phone has to be off and hidden. He also points to the irony that in a lot of these latter classes, students are \"asked to do research on a desktop computer that absolutely has less processing power than the computer in their pocket.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And that's probably one of the most important observations: many students already carry a powerful computing device in their pockets, while oftentimes much of the technology hardware at schools is woefully out-of-date. By allowing cellphones, schools may find they have equipped students with better devices -- with devices that work as calculators, cameras, video cameras, books, and notebooks, for example -- at no or low cost to the school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cellphones are, of course, just one piece of a BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) program, and this \u003ca href=\"http://byod.wikispaces.com/\">wiki\u003c/a> created by Manitoba educator Darren Kuropatwa gives some tips on how to prepare for and take advantage of cell phones and other devices brought into the classroom from home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the biggest obstacle remains the attitudes of those educators and administrators who still frown on the devices and fear their usage, who confiscate them from students, who see them as a distraction rather than a powerful tool for learning. It's clear that schools must come up with an acceptable use policy for cellphones in the classroom. But as more adults indicate that they're \"lost\" without their cellphones, it hardly seems acceptable that we ban students' access to the devices.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":null,"status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1347475848,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":15,"wordCount":915},"headData":{"title":"To Ban or Not to Ban: Schools Weigh Cell Phone Policies | KQED","description":"Flickr:From_Ko Last week, a study by the Pew Internet and American Life Project found that cellphones have become "near ubiquitous": 83% of American adults own one. Over half of all adult mobile phone owners had used their phones at least once to get information they needed right away. 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