Studies of the Valnessan Society “Take another step” in organizing mobile devices In educational centers. When a year of Blocking the use of a mobile phone in schools and institutes with public funds (With the exception of educational activities and for health reasons), the Ministry of Education wants to determine “Greater Reducing” is used Of digital devices in general, which also includes laptops and tablets, focus on the condition of centers that use books or materials in digital support and include them Take them home to do the homework.
This regulations refer to 20 minutes Sources from the department that he directed Jose Antonio RoviraIt will be collected in an arrangement in which the General Directorate of Innovation and the educational inclusion is already, and in amending the coexistence decree. Expectations are that in April, a proposal is transferred to the sector’s schedule to submit it to the unions.
The Ministry’s initiative spoke days after the Madrid community announced that it is next year The homework will be canceled in digital coordination and the application of new restrictions In the use of mobile devices, computer and tablet computer in schools. Thus, it will prohibit the individual use of these devices and will be established Hours of joint use within the classroom Depending on the age of each student and supervised by the teacher.
The General Directorate of Education and Innovation has maintained contacts in this regard With two parents’ associations: The unemployed and mobile phones, and a working group with representatives of the Valness of the Public, Coordinated and private School has carried out with the aim of “listening and evaluating” the contributions of the entire educational community.
Impact on students
In the Valnaian community, the context evaluation that took place between late 2023 and early 2024 showed the data “to consider” about the use of ICT technologies (ICT) and the use of mobile devices among students. One of its main conclusions is The fun use of mobile phones is more than three hours a day. Specifically, in the third row, 8 % claims to spend more than three hours a day using devices, a number to 18 % in 6 and 23 % in ESO fourth. In 2nd Basic FP, the percentage is 35 % and in 2nd 18 % of the baccalaureate.
Of adolescents without mobile devices, one of its founders, Bao RubioHe confirms that there is an “open conversation” with the ministry in which they call “a more clear organization of the screens inside and outside the separation. We do not want to force us to buy and transfer devices to the houseHe says. His position should not be “against screens,” but “regular, to have a healthy meaning and do what science says. Therefore, the administration is required to give priority to children and indicates studies that indicate that Performance both in reading and writing paper “It is superior to the screen.”
Rubio argues that the shots are changing regarding leap The first for new technologies in educational centers. “The decisions were not taken based on studies to believe them, so let’s put this matter and put the attention of children and their development first,” he insists. “This was the wild West.”He adds.
In their opinion, parents realize “not everything great” for the effect of the screens on The development of the brain, in mental health, in mind or the ability to focus From students. In addition, request to create systems that control access to the Internet. “We do not intend to eliminate screens, much lower, but this does not mean that everything should be digital,” he said.
