Cellphone bans in middle and high schools across the U.S. are raising questions about how effective locking away students' devices on the heels of a pandemic—when classroom instruction was all but virtual—will be.
district in Alabama, students must now lock away their phones in magnetically sealed pouches prior to the start of the school day.
Alper suggests that bans by themselves won't necessarily lead to more engaged learning unless accompanied by measures to educate students on their technology use. It's precisely the unfettered nature of online distraction—the tech user's propensity for misusing the devices—that has led to the popularization of"digital citizenship" and social media literacy as concepts that should be integrated in schools.
It's not immediately clear how many of the districts that have proposed bans also provide courses or training on technology use—they are too numerous to count. But Alper also points out that blanket bans run the risk of depriving students of tools that may be necessary to their learning.
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