#cellphones — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #cellphones, aggregated by home.social.
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One of #NJ’s largest school districts bans #cellphones in class
By Rob Jennings, Sept 19, 2025
"Students in New Jersey’s second-largest city will be required to put their cellphones away while in class starting Oct. 1.
"The Jersey City school board voted unanimously Thursday night to approve a new policy prohibiting cellphones and other personal communications devices in classrooms. There will be limited exceptions for students with disabilities and health issues."
Archived version:
https://archive.ph/lpEmt#UseYourBrain #SmartphoneAddiction #TechAddiction #MentalHealth #BrainHealth
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More students head back to class without one crucial thing: their phones
Sequoia Carrillo, September 1, 2025
Excerpt: "In Texas, every public and charter school student will be without their phones during the school day this fall. Brigette Whaley, an associate professor of education at West Texas A&M University, expects to see "a more equitable environment" in classrooms with higher student engagement.
"Last year, she tracked the success of a cell phone ban in one west Texas high school by surveying teachers throughout the year. They reported more participation by students, and also said they saw student anxiety plummet – mainly because students weren't afraid of being filmed at any moment and embarrassing themselves.
" 'They could relax in the classroom and participate,' she said. 'And not be so anxious about what other students were doing.'
"The findings in west Texas align with results from many of the states and districts that are heading back to school without phones: Students learn better in a #PhoneFree environment. Getting cell phones out of the classroom is a rare issue with significant bipartisan support, allowing a rapid adoption of policies across red and blue states alike.
"Some 31 states and the District of Columbia now restrict students' use of #CellPhones in schools, according to Education Week."
Read more / listen:
https://www.npr.org/2025/09/01/nx-s1-5495531/more-states-now-ban-cell-phones-in-schools#TechAddiction #SmartPhoneAddiction #ReadABook #TalkToAFriend #TakeNotes #Handwriting #PayAttention #LessDistractions #LessScreenTime
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#GenXers and #boomers discuss the pros and cons of life before #cellphones
https://www.upworthy.com/gen-x-boomers-life-before-cell-phones
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In the #aughts (but probably starting a couple years earlier), we saw the rise of #web2, and the mass adoption of #MySpace, #Facebook, #Twitter. Especially with the rise of #cellphones with built-in cameras and #webbrowser enabled #smartphones, the information really began to flow in two directions with #UserGeneratedContent. I like to think of this as a one-dimensional vector field, where information was flowing in two directions, but still only in one dimension. 5/16
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Global News BC: B.C. school bans cellphones during instructional time https://globalnews.ca/news/9940688/bc-school-ban-cellphones/ #globalnews #britishcolumbia #news #BelmontSecondarySchoolphoneban #BelmontSecondarySchool #Cellphonebanschool #CellphonesInSchool #schoolcellphoneban #Phonesinschools #phonebanschool #CellphoneBan #cellphones #Education #PhoneBan
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Show off your startup at TC Sessions: Mobility 2020 - Remember when “mobility” meant laptops and cell phones? Those were quaint times. Now the category en... more: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/1usrbbiBr0I/ #tcsessions:mobility2020 #entrepreneurship #self-drivingcars #generalpartner #startupcompany #privateequity #reillybrennan #california #cellphones #startups #articles #business #mobility #nutonomy #trucksvc #economy #sanjose #speaker #nauto