Re:Unesco calls for global ban on smartphones in schools
by kwanbix on Wednesday July 26, 2023 @08:57AM
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Because these things are addictive? You can say the same for drugs, alcohol, and most people that consume those are adults, how can you expect kids to do what adults can't? You see 90% of people in the buses, trains looking their phones like idiots (including me). It is very difficult because it creates addiction.
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Re:Unesco calls for global ban on smartphones in schools
by randomdata on Wednesday July 26, 2023 @09:39AM
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> You see 90% of people in the buses, trains looking their phones like idiots (including me).
Isn't that just making the best of a bad situation? I am guilty myself, but at the same time I forget that I even have a device when not subject to such drudgery. Addiction usually implies a greater compulsion.
Which, too, explains why this ban is only targeted at schools and not in general like drugs. While there are some skillful teachers, most aren't worth your time. As such, the phones come out as a distraction. In my pre-smartphone youth we were doodling in our notebooks, or what have you, instead, but the motivation was the same.
Re:Unesco calls for global ban on smartphones in schools
by kjkjadksj on Wednesday July 26, 2023 @01:21PM
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You werent doodling in your book while walking in public or mid pee in the urinal. You weren’t doodling to the point you have chronic neck pain and a screwed up posture. You weren’t getting mad or depressed at what you were doodling either.