Mounting frustration over student attentiveness led administrators at San Mateo High School to institute a new policy: Students are now required to keep their devices in a magnetically sealed pouch during school hours.
It wasn’t enough to just tell students at San Mateo High School to put their phones away during class, now, officials at the California school have told them to lock them away.
"We could walk into a variety of classrooms, and kids would be on their cellphones anywhere from 5 seconds, checking a text, to 30 to 45 minutes at a time," Adam Gelb, assistant principal of San Mateo High School, told."You're here to learn. You are here to work with your teachers and students, and we started getting away from that because of these devices and how addictive they can be.
Some technology experts feel the new policy is a step in the right direction and will curb distraction in the classroom. “The ability to be free of distraction and concentrate on things is increasingly valuable, so it’s a good general function of our schools to be a place where our students get trained to keeping their concentration on one thing at a time,” he added."Last year, a lot of people spent lunches looking at the phone, not talking with each other, but this year, there is nothing else to do but talk," said Michael Picchi, a San Mateo High School student.
A no-cellphone policy improves the educational experience, said Arnold Glass, a professor of psychology at Rutgers University, who lead the study. “Cellphones have negative consequences on learning, and if you’re there to learn, it defeats the purpose of showing up if you’re on a phone.”
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