[ethbr1]

> Childhood is where you teach positive behaviors and responsibility. Just chucking phones out the window to avoid the problem teaches nothing.

We specifically engineer acculturation processes to incrementally add responsibility for a reason.

Nobody gives a 2 year old a loaded pistol and then tells them they can't have candy.

IMHO, a smartphone with unregulated addictive apps is too much responsibility for grade-level children during school hours. (Hell, it's too much responsibility for many adults I know)

[the_snooze]

Tech focuses too much on scale and frictionless experiences. That's noise in an educational environment where children are more-or-less mandated to be in. Get rid of smartphones in school. School offices still have voice phones if students and parents need to communicate.

[neal_jones]

Agreed. We’ve pitted developing minds against machine learning - hardly surprising that students are distracted.

(Written on a smart phone while at work)

[mike_d]

I think a much better solution is Apple just geofencing schools in the US and not allowing social media apps to be opened.