#smartphoneban — Public Fediverse posts
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Student #ReadingAbility Spikes After Removing Tech From Class
"Remove all the #distractions and we can get our kids back."
By Frank Landymore
Published Jun 15, 2026"Would you believe it: a teacher and her students say their reading ability soared after banning tech in the classroom.
"Maureen Mulvaney, an AP Literature and English teacher at Washburn High School in Minneapolis, started the low tech experiment last year after becoming frustrated with plagiarism, distracted students, and plunging literacy rates.
"And so, with the enthusiastic support of parents, she banned phones and laptops, requiring all coursework to be done with pencil and paper. The turnaround was quick and resounding, and despite some initial resistance from students, they quickly fell in love with the old, analog ways of doing things.
"In September, before the experiment started, just 46 percent of Mulvaney’s students said they felt confident about their reading ability. By February, that share shot up to 95 percent.
" 'We’re having a lot of trouble in education and I think what my kids told us was that there is a solution and the solution is to go #LowTech. Go back to the old ways of doing things,' Mulvaney told local TV news station KARE 11. 'Remove all the distractions and we can get our kids back.'
"Mulvaney let her students ease into a tech free environment. First, they started with just ten minutes of silent reading and writing by hand. Still, the first day was 'rough,' she wrote in an essay in The Minnesota Star Tribune. Most students quit after just half a page of longhand composition.
" 'I told the kids this is like lifting weights,' she told KARE 11. 'You don’t go in and you don’t start with 80 pounds.' "
Read more:
https://futurism.com/future-society/students-reading-improves-no-tech-class#LudditeClub #NoTech #NoPhones #NoAI #Reading #Writing #Humans
#Smartphones are #DumbingUsDown #SolarPunkSunday #Handwriting #NeoLuddites #SmartphoneBan #Longhand -
Oxford Hills students look back at a full year under a cellphone ban
Story by Jacob Murphy
April 14, 2026Excerpt: " 'It's gotten easier. You get used to it. It's just like a new habit,' said Joseph Bobrowski, a sophomore at the school.
"Inside a world history class, students are working on a group project based on the Industrial Revolution. There were no phones in sight, which would have been unusual to see a year ago.
" 'Everyone would be on their phones, be it texting, gaming, but now there's a lot of people actually talking and laughing,' said Caelynn St. Laurent, a sophomore.
" 'It's kind of reminiscent of pre-cellphone, in terms of kids interacting with each other and just being kids, which is great,' said school principal Paul Bickford.
"It follows the logic of a new report from the National Bureau of Economic Research. The report tracks schools that use lockable pouches for phones, a system that was implemented at Portland High School."
#SmartphoneBan #LetKidsBeKids #BellToBell #TeenMentalHealth #MainePol #CellPhoneBans #PutThePhoneDown #SmartPhoneAddiction #TooMuchScreenTime #TechAddiction #LetKidsBeKids
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A shame that all the questions thrown to the Conservative spokesperson on #R4today about a #SmartphoneBan were on the technical aspects of the policy, and not “How much investment would you put into real-world youth services and leisure services to ensure young people had non-virtual spaces to mix and socialise?”.
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Govt Proposes Smartphone Ban For Students Under 16 #mobilephones #smartphoneban #socialmedia
https://www.lowyat.net/2025/370297/govt-proposes-smartphone-ban-for-students-under-16/
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How Los Angeles banned smartphones in schools (Lock and Code S06E10) https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/podcast/2025/05/how-los-angeles-banned-smartphones-in-schools-lock-and-code-s06e10 #smartphoneban #lockandcode #Podcast #podcast #school
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Silicon Valley has known this for years and not only didn't care, actively promoted it. Look at the state of America now for an example of where we are heading. If only we had a PM who would actually stand up to America....
#UKPOL #UKPolitics #Smartphones #SiliconValley #SmartphoneBan
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🚀 #Finland bravely ventures where parents fear to tread: banning smartphones in #schools to finally stop Generation Z from TikToking their way through algebra! 📱🤦♂️ Meanwhile, Finnish students start studying the ancient art of... paying attention. 😂 #BackToTheStoneAge
https://yle.fi/a/74-20158886 #SmartphoneBan #GenerationZ #PayingAttention #TikTok #HackerNews #ngated -
Oh yeah, they're really going to fuck this up, aren't they?~
Don't listen to children, don't listen to parents, just ban something and bend to Big Money, just as always.
No wonder the Youth is nihilistic.....#AdolescenceNetflix #TechBros #Labour #UKPOL #UKpolitics #SmartphoneBan
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Trouble is when you're "making sure that our children are educated about things like misogyny, healthy relationships" is the Parents relationships might be exposed as unhealthy, and those parents don't want that so they'll be crying out for Smartphones to be banned instead.
#UKPOL #UKpolitics #Empathy #Wokeness #Misogyny #SmartphoneBan
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A 🧵 #1
I have permission to post this here. Unlike where this was originally shared, I think people will understand and connect with the message."This discussion around the new cell phone ban is proof to me that the people of this province don't care about learning. I haven't seen anyone else call this what is an admission from the government that are schools aren't working.
#onted #onpoli #education #school #children #technology #technologyban #phoneban #smartphone #smartphoneban
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Fighting the #smartphone ‘invasion’: the #French village that voted to ban scrolling in public
#SeinePort is introducing restrictions on #phone use in streets, shops and parks – but young people say there’s little else to do
#smartphoneban #France #TDBNews
