Teacher's Class Experiment Shows Just How Much Phones Distract Kids

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Kids get a LOT of notifications.

earlier in March. Since then, his post has been shared more than 134,000 times.

"This was one class, one period. Every one of these tally marks is an interruption in a student's education," Becigneul wrote in the post.The Ontario government will this week announce itsSome schools already have similar policies, but the province will issue a directive to all public schools for the 2019-20 school year. It would prohibit cellphone use during instructional time."When the school day starts, the phones go off," one senior government source said.

is linked to lower grades in a 2017 study published in the journal Educational Psychology. In that study, college students were permitted to use electronic devices, including cell phones, during half of the lectures in a course. Using the devices in class affected the students' long-term retention of the lecture, and their subsequent unit and final exam scores, researchers noted.in high-stakes exams, according to a 2015 London School of Economics and Political Science paper.

More posts about similar experiments have been popping up, including one shared by a public school Facebook page in Hillsborough County, Fla."Parents PLEASE find a way to block students' access to these disruptions during the school day," the post said.

 

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Kids don't need phones in class, unless there is a built in function like searching for information or education videos. But only for class purposes. No parent needs constant contact with their kid in what is for that kid, their workplace. If it's important call the bloody office

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