Classroom cellphone bans should help improve learning environments in schools, a child development expert says.
Keeping the devices out of classrooms would help focus attention, improve problem-solving and -- by allowing kids to occasionally lapse into boredom -- spur creativity, says Jon Piacentini, a child and adolescent psychologist at UCLA Health.
What's more, U.S. children ages 8 to 12 spend about six hours a day on screens, sometimes while in class, the NIH said. Students who can't concentrate “do not have the ability to take multiple perspectives or see problems from multiple approaches,” Piacentini said.
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