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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

In classrooms children shouldn't remove their phones from their pockets at all, they are there to focus on the class. If we removed our phones from our pockets, they would be confiscated until the end of class, and rightly so.

School is for paying attention and learning, not for going into your own little world on your phone (which we're all guilty of).

Also, the only time you need to use a computer at school is during IT lessons, or study/research sessions. School is the time that we learn and perfect our handwriting abilities, and our abilities to read through books, make notes based on what the teacher is saying, or writing on the blackboard, etc. It is not appropriate to pull out a laptop and use that instead, because that won't teach the child these important hand skills.

I'm talking about primary school and secondary school, and mostly college too. Once the student is 18 and begins university, there's nothing stopping them from using computers or phones, it's up to them to regulate their own attention and such.

I think that's all pretty reasonable and fair.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why do you need to learn handwriting skills? I personally write everything to notes on my phone or laptop in real life and the only place where I need to hand-write long pieces of text is in school. Writing on a blackboard skills must be a joke. School should teach you to make notes based on what the teacher is saying (the skill here is being able to find the useful information and being able to store it), but the method of writing it should be the method you are gonna use irl. For me and most people in my age I believe, it's writing it on phone or a laptop. Tbf phones in school bring various problems, but I don't think lack of writing skills is among them.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Well, at University, we learned that students retain more of what they're learning, when writing. Our brains are not fully adapted yet to process typed input as well as written.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

yeah, too many school authorities do act taht way. For a approach going more in the opposite direction, see, for example: https://piped.video/watch?v=dk60sYrU2RU (maybe skip to aa minute in. presented, the idea, in that case, by sugata mitra. The Talk is not new, but still relevant I'd think, and relates to the post here. ) 💻🖥️

For anotger, similar, but also different example, see https://piped.video/watch?v=WNuv0_MLrKg this one specifically mentions phones early on, too.

So if you believe in, or are open to the idea, that the approach in in the main meme post isn't the best, then the stories in the piped videos might be of some intrest to you.

tdlr: 🎶you can use your phone if yiu want to, yiu can leave your technophobe schoolmaster behind,... 🎶🎧

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