Mobile in schools? Science makes it clear | Education
When we talk about technology at school, you need to start asking the questions well to avoid crazy answers. Today’s irritation is that in politics and educational debate, ages, technologies and benefits are mixed in a cocktail, where the most important thing is. If we go well or bad. Approved or suspense. Therefore, it is necessary to “rebuild” the question, order and start. The subject of ages: mature moments are different from age, similar to text goals. The same thing happens to technologies: in the hardware (tablet, laptop, digital board, a Smartphone) Like in the software (personalized learning app, evaluation tool, learning platform). Not to mention the purposes: Some technologies facilitate communication, some remove (or add), some other teaching processes are already taking place and others replace them. The variable list is long. Everyone chooses themselves.
In this way, I want to fix a very clear question, but still without this fruit of this irritation. It’s simple: do you need to ban phones and Smartphones In schools? Almost everyone did so (except Iskadi, it gives autonomy to the centers), but the level of the ban is not the same everywhere. According to PISA 2022 data, 67.5% of the directors of the 15 -year -old students are not allowed in their education center. However, without the previous discussion that combines what we know from the goals of education and the perspective of scientific research, it is difficult to move forward.
For example, the expansion of Smartphones And it seems to worsen the mental health and educational results of the Internet students in universities Article Published in the most prestigious magazine in Economics. When IDES with Personal Rights with Personal Rights, the subject of the minor is in a crucial age, when interfering with adult age. And in it, worth asking: we know what’s about Smartphones In schools? Let’s look at the end of the high school, here, according to Ine, there is a personal phone for almost all adolescents (without specifying whether it is Smartphone Or not).
To this day, there are four causal studies and quantitative data that answer the question. In England, a Study He analyzed the ban on telephones in 91 schools in four cities and had a positive impact of the learning prohibition that was concentrated among students of worse educational performance. Sweden study Single In their discussion, in their discussion, in their discussion, the writers have said that the Nordic countries in digital education and the use of their own phones are more prepared to control students themselves. They conclude that studies should show similar results in culturally close countries (such as Denmark and Norway).
However, it is not so. He is Study In Norway, it has been wide and highly over a thousand high school with students between the ages of 12 and 16. In 2016, the unexpected decision was made in a unexpected decision, which allows schools to see the impact in the short and medium season that the NTIC is unable to change changes. There are five dimensions that have shown a positive effect on the ban. First: 60% of psychologists visits and decrease in 29% of symptoms and treatment of mental health diseases (concentrated exclusively on girls). Second: The case of cases Threatening. Third: Improvement in math results (especially in girls, due to the excessive intensity of use), with the high probability of maintaining higher high school in the academic lane. Fourth: a big impact to the lowest social -economic levels. Fifth: The limit of the ban is higher (telephone control at the entrance instead of leaving the phones in silence mode), highlighting the old Spanish proverb “The eyes that are not seen, the heart that does not feel“The results of a wide study are very powerful in all studies available to this day. And not in any country.
Fourth Study Available in Spain, and guidelines for banning mobile phones in mandatory stages between 2014 and 2015 in the secondary of the secondary in Galicia and Castilla Law bed. In Galicia for improvement of learning results, this study finds positive, high and significant impact, as well as a significant fall between 10% and 20% cases Threatening In two autonomous circles.
To make decisions we need more studies, more evidence and more security; To some extent, the decisions we have already taken. We can expect some more study to be confirmed: there are more interaction with different results (and non -cassal) studies, but we know that educational and social research is the cause of the phenomenon. We can continue to discuss this and continue to turn around. But then we are distracted without focusing on relevant questions about the use of technologies and other equipment in classrooms, trying to answer research and have not yet achieved: and many governments have already decided to blindly in the devices of classrooms through theoretical impulses, which are happening, which are happening From irrational technology to conservative apocalypse with technology.
Let’s start by setting up other discussion and prohibit aggressively Smartphones In ESO, the case may be the case, with controls at the doors of the Institutes. Norway’s study stated laboratory experiments in which the phone presence near, even quietly, its use at the end of class shooting andFamous Phomo (“lost fear”). Let us go to the next screen that plays an important role in digital education and education improvement. To the inside and always equipment for teaching purposes. SmartphonesOn the other hand, good.
