Alexandra S. Levine is a journalist covering technology's impact on society, mainly writing investigations and features about social media, children's safety online and AI. She joined Forbes in 2022.
“The best way to teach young people how to navigate the digital world is to give them six, eight hou...“The best way to teach young people how to navigate the digital world is to give them six, eight hours a day without it, so they can understand the difference,” says Yondr founder Graham Dugoni .Back-to-school looks different this year as districts across America institute new programs banning smartphones, enabled by lockable pouches from 10-year-old company Yondr .
“A lot of people perceive the issue of phones in schools or phones in society and all the things attached to it as a genie that's impossible to put back in the bottle,” Dugoni toldThe volume of schools, districts and states restricting or banning students’ phones is surging as social media’s unanticipated consequences and potential harms, particularly to children’s mental health, are nowthis summer showing that a majority of high school teachers in the U.S.
Yondr began exploding in schools after the 2020 pandemic. “As students came back into the classroom and realized what eight to 10 hours a day on the screen , and parents saw firsthand what their kid was experiencing, I think there was a radical shift, and people started to realize that maybe, especially in an educational setting, the smartphone was not necessarily a tool that was beneficial to learning; it was more of a distraction and a crutch,” Dugoni told.
“If you're going to try to change the culture in a school, it's not so simple as just shipping product; you're unwinding a lot of learned behavior for young people, so you have to get the buy-in of the entire community,” he said. Parents opposing plans to eliminate smartphones in schools are mainly worried about safety and not being able to reach their children during emergencies like an active shooter. But safety and security experts and administrators have“Our safety protocols, which are informed by our law enforcement partners, are that our classrooms are to be behind a locked door, silent, dark and barricaded,” said Tim Clark, a spokesperson for the Richardson Independent School District in Texas.
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