• EamonnMR@lemmy.sdf.org
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    1 year ago

    If students hide their phones instead of being distracted by them, isn’t that mission accomplished?

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      1 year ago

      As previous student who was in school when cell phones blew up in usage, I wasn’t not preoccupied by my phone because I had to keep it hidden. I was preoccupied with keeping it hidden so I could keep using it. Texting with T9 without looking was a breeze. The only thing that slowed my usage was the fact I only had like 500 texts a month allotted to me.

      Making the kids hide it won’t make them less distracted. They just become distracted by hiding the phone. I feel like you’d almost have to just ban phones entirely, which today is pretty impractical.

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      1 year ago

      Not really, they’re still using them. Just not as obviously. They’d be even more distracted trying to hide it and focus on everything at the same time.