Telefonverbote an Schulen: Warum Schweizer Lehrer skeptisch sind
https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/education/phone-bans-in-schools-why-swiss-teachers-are-sceptical/91358723?utm_source=multiple&utm_medium=website&utm_campaign=bundle-front1_en&utm_content=o&utm_term=wpblock_teaser-bundle
Von Heavy-Mycologist-204
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I heard the opposite from our local teachers. Swissinfo article, without any substance, hits again
Pure clickbait. Experiences with phone bans so far have been positive.
They’re sceptical about the way of bans – not sceptical of removing phones out of classrooms. The whole debate about to ban ot not to ban is terrible and one is starting to get sure that this kind of articles are supported by platforms. Throw some doubt, any doubt on diminishing the profit of profiteers of attention economy and win time. Time is attention is money.
We are living in attention economy. Are adults really so off that they weigh the use of a device for paying, mfa and checking the bus (5 min per day) against hours of short form addictive entertainment (5 to 8 hours per day)?
They have a walk to use the phone – are you kidding us? Have a stroll around a random sek in the lunch time. A few weeks ago I accidentally saw it, next to a supermarket. Every single bench was taken by boys playing. They arent talking, they’re all playing. About twenty of them, all in same sitting position, silence, phone. The food is sort of pick and put in the mouth like Pringles or Haribo because even a sandwich needs more valuable attention.
Dream on people. This will have consequences.
We should make a list of such authors of articles that are trying to sway debates or trivialise this crisis we are in.
So, „the Swiss umbrella organisation for teachers“ is one amongst many teachers organisations. This one doesn’t even has sections in non German speaking areas.
And then, they are able to quite juste two teachers, one of which is very moderate in her comments.
So at most, „some teachers are sceptical“.
Why because teachers are also banned from phones? 🤣 /s
My students don’t spend ages on the toilet anymore and I have no more arguments about „he/she took a photo/video of me, they have to delete it“.
This is such a nothingburger of an article, it’s shocking.
I don’t get why ban the phones at school.
If a parent is against it, then he should just not send his kids to school with a smartphone.
Use of smartphone during class was already forbidden 15 years ago when I was at school and it worked pretty well, you would get a note to bring to your parents to sign.
Having a good attention span is going to become a rare skill if we don’t set some limitations for kids and technology. We had Gameboys and GigaPets and other handheld electronics we were not allowed to have at school and if we brought them they were confiscated and returned at the end of the school day. It should be the same with phones. Another generation from now I feel like these addictive apps and algorithms will be treated like cigarettes in most of the developed world and there will be more restrictions. Also, children should have the right to engage in school without fear of being photographed and recorded. I would be so anxious and paranoid if I had to deal with that as a child.