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Sobering article on kids tuned out of education, lost in their cell phones:
"A Teacher Did All He Could to Keep Kids Off Phones. He’s Quitting in Frustration.
Mitchell Rutherford faced a crisis of confidence as smartphones took over his Arizona high school classroom and students lost the motivation to learn"
He seems like he's going above and beyond to motivate students. He blames the situation on pervasive cell phone use bordering on addiction, resulting in high school kids who just don't care and spend their days watching Tik Tok videos.
This is sobering.
Not just High School students
Nowadays most kids in Elementary schools have smartphones, even kindergarten ...
TikTok is now teaching them.
And a comment above is correct - it's consumed people of all ages. I've stopped going to shows/concerts because I can't tolerate seeing an ocean of glowing screens in front of me, ruining the performance. I can't go to my monthly book club meeting without everyone whipping out their phones and playing show & tell. I'm done.
Smartphones have made me anti-social and isolated, not because I use one, but because I don't.
You could start a no-cell-phones social group! I'll join it!
At my kids’ high school, many of the teachers have a system where the students get an extra point on their class grade for leaving their phone in their backpack, and get a point deducted every time they take out their phone (unless specifically instructed to, of course). It winds up being more effective and less distracting than previous attempts to outright ban phones in school.
At my kids’ high school, many of the teachers have a system where the students get an extra point on their class grade for leaving their phone in their backpack, and get a point deducted every time they take out their phone (unless specifically instructed to, of course). It winds up being more effective and less distracting than previous attempts to outright ban phones in school.
Why offer 'rewards' to curb an addiction? Just confiscate the damn phones - no ifs, ands or buts - because it's the right thing to do. The parents of these addicts should be doing the disciplining themselves anyway without this burden being placed on teachers.
Oh wait, my bad ...the parents are likely phone addicts also . . .
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