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Deb Gardner

Revisiting Cell Phone Bans in Schools -- THE Journal - 0 views

  • Twenty-four percent of K-12 schools ban cell phones altogether, and 62 percent allow phones on school grounds but ban them in the classroom, according to the most recent national data available. But it's about time for those schools to rethink those bans,
  • We have to decide if we are going to continue to ban cell phones, and we have to weigh the balance between pros and cons.
  • He described one example of a teacher using Poll Everywhere in a social studies classroom. As students enter the classroom, the teacher has posted a question on the whiteboard asking students what they believe to be the most important cause of the Civil War.
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  • research has demonstrated that using texting to provide students and parents with regular information about classwork leads to higher assignment completion rates.
  • QR codes are also making mobile phones more attractive as educational tools.
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  • The cell phone bans are in place, Bellarmine's Thomas said, because of legitimate concerns about cheating, texting, sexting, and cyberbullying. Thomas argued that the mobile phones themselves are not causing these problems. They are moral and ethical in nature, not technical. "These are new forms of old behaviors. Banning will not be the solution," he said. "We have to educate students about proper way to use the tools."
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