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Three cheers for UK teachers: banning smartphones in schools is “out of touch”
The UK’s has that , that the question has been properly managed by schools and colleges for many years, accommodating different needs flexibly.
The UK thus separates itself from France’s sad approach to the ban, , framing smartphone use more pragmatically, whether allowing children to keep in contact with their family, to integrating smartphone use into information gathering and learning dynamics, depending on each teacher’s preferences.
The French approach is disturbingly simple: managing children’s use of their smartphones requires a flexible approach, so even if knowing how get the most from one is a fundamental skill today, let’s just pretend we’re still in the 19th century. Basically, the French government’s option can be summed up as “.” As a result, our so-called “digital natives” who some thought were technological geniuses, actually have no idea how to make the best use of their capabilities, do not know how to attach a file to an mail, but can navigate a social network, and are, in reality, “digital…
