- Around eight in ten secondary leaders (83 percent) and teachers (79 percent) report prohibiting phone use at school has improved their students’ ability to focus on schoolwork
- The increased ability to focus in class appears to have contributed to learning, with around six in ten secondary teachers (61 percent) and leaders (58 percent) reporting student achievement has improved.
- Over three-quarters of secondary teachers (77 percent) and leaders (78 percent) also say restricting cell phone use has improved student behaviour in the classroom.
- Over two-thirds (69 percent) of secondary leaders say that bullying has decreased.
- Almost seven in ten (69 percent) leaders in secondary schools in low socio-economic communities said achievement improved, compared to four in ten (42 percent) in high socio-economic communities
David Farrar runs Curia Market Research, a specialist opinion polling and research agency, and the popular Kiwiblog where this article was sourced. He previously worked in the Parliament for eight years, serving two National Party Prime Ministers and three Opposition Leaders
4 comments:
The question to ask - " Is a how many of the students, who have cell phones 'ignore' the ban"??
Most of this evidence is suspect as it relies on what respondents opined rather than on hard data. What we find all too often in such research is that responses are subject to confirmation bias i.e. referring to selected instances that appear to support the respondents' prior expectations.
I have to agree with Barend, but that doesn't mean I think it is a bad idea to ban them.
There is plenty of more rigorous research showing the harm for children with over-exposed to screens. Observation reveals to us their addictive nature.
Interestingly, workers at Silicon Valley send their children to screen -free schools. Sweden has banned all screens at primary schools.
Progressive education loves technological innovations but mostly research reveals there is little to no improvement in achievement with any new technology.
However at secondary level phones are also calculators and clocks. Children should learn their tables at primary school and phones should not be used for basic arithmetic answers.
Anyone with an ounce of common sense realizes that cell' phones' are deliberately designed to be addictive and children are the worse affected, The ban is working so why do we constantly have to justify it?
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