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Background Information:

How does the presence of mobile phones in schools impact student achievement?

From this week on (10th September 2018) students who attend Middle School in France will not be able to use a mobile phone whilst at school.

A new law has been introduced, banning mobile phones, which President Emmanuel Macron said would help detox teenagers from their screens.

This is an ongoing debate in many countries. Some advocate for a complete ban, while others promote the use of mobile phones as a teaching tool in classrooms.

So, the question is: Should schools allow the use of mobile phones?

Questions to consider when researching:

-What are the advantages of a student having a mobile phone at school? Disadvantages?

-How does it impact on the student inside the classroom vs. outside the classroom?

-How could mobile phones enhance learning?

-How could mobile phones negatively impact on learning?

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Mobile phone bans ‘improve school exam results’

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Mobile phone bans ‘improve school exam results’

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Published: May 18th 2015

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BANNING mobile phones in schools has resulted in pupils receiving an extra week's education across the year, researchers say.

A study published by the London School of Economics surveyed schools in four English cities -Birmingham, Leicester, London and Manchester - and found exam scores improved by as much as six per cent in schools that imposed strict bans on mobile phones, the BBC reports.

"We found the impact of banning phones for these students equivalent to an additional hour a week in school, or to increasing the school year by five days," the study's authors wrote on the academic blog, The Conversation.

Researchers Richard Murphy, from the University of Texas, and Louis-Philippe Beland, from Louisiana State University, say the phones cause distractions, reduce productivity and are detrimental to learning.

Low-income and low-achieving students showed the greatest improvement in their grades as a result of the policies.

In March, New York mayor Bill De Blasio lifted a 10-year ban on phones on school premises saying it would reduce inequality, but the researchers disagree.

"The results suggest that low achieving students are more likely to be distracted by the presence of mobile phones while high achievers can focus in the classroom regardless of the mobile phone policy," the study says.

"Schools could significantly reduce the education gap by prohibiting mobile phone use, and so by allowing phones, New York may unintentionally increase the inequalities of outcomes."

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BANNING mobile phones in schools has resulted in pupils receiving an extra week's education across the year, researchers say. A study published by the London School of Economics surveyed schools in four English cities -Birmingham, Leicester, London and Manchester - and found exam scores improved by as much as six per cent in schools that imposed strict bans on mobile phones, the BBC reports.

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Debate rages over when to give kids a smartphone

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Debate rages over when to give kids a smartphone

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Published: April 23rd 2015

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PRIMARY schools are increasingly banning smartphones as junior tech addicts as young as five pack them in their bags.

As debate rages about what age children should be given gadgets like mobiles and tablets, schools are noticing even their youngest pupils bringing in phones.

Victorian Principals Association president Gabrielle Leigh said policies differed among schools but many were prohibiting smartphones outright.

"Some schools say no phones should come into primary schools,'' she said.

"It can cause a number of issues, including security problems if they leave them in their bags, and a distraction. There have been preps with phones.''

Other schools were asking students to hand them in at the start of the day and collect them when they left.

But she said some primary schools were using smartphones as learning tools in the upper year levels.

"There can be advantages in using them for teaching students different learning concepts, as long as they are not distracting,'' she said.

Child psychologist Dr Michael Carr-Gregg said five was too young for children to have a mobile phone, but he thought eight was appropriate.

He said research has discovered about 35 per cent of 8-11-year-olds had mobile phones.

"The bottom line is what we need to be doing is making sure the phones are used appropriately," he said.

"Many of the younger children will have them for security reasons, say if mum doesn't turn up, or is running late.

"But there's no question that they shouldn't be owning their own phone at five.

"You'd better make sure it's a 'dumb' phone not a smartphone and is not linked to the internet.''

Laura Marchese bought a "dumb" phone for her 10-year-old son to carry when he walks home from school.

The mother of three said she did not want her children to own a smartphone yet.

"He has an iPad which he uses in class but that's in his bag," she said.

"I don't want him to have the world at his fingertips; a phone is in your pocket and he's more likely to get it out and use it all the time."

At St Albans East primary, pupils are required to leave their phone with the teacher or at the school office, where they are locked away.

"Not many students bring in phones, maybe two to three per class in the upper levels,'' said principal Anne-Marie Kliman.

"It's often when kids are at the age where their parents let them walk to and from school, and give them a phone.''

The Education Department said it was up to individual schools to devise their own policies using department guidelines.
elissa.doherty@news.com.au

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PRIMARY schools are increasingly banning smartphones as junior tech addicts as young as five pack them in their bags. As debate rages about what age children should be given gadgets like mobiles and tablets, schools are noticing even their youngest pupils bringing in phones.

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Banning mobile phones from schools boosts student performance in high stakes tests, according to a study published by the London School of Economics (LSE).

Researchers Louis-Philippe Beland and Richard Murphy say low-achieving and low-income students gain the most, suggesting they are more likely to be distracted in the classroom by the technology.

The study showed no significant impact on the test scores of high achievers.

The researchers surveyed 91 schools in four English cities and found that, after they had banned mobile phones, test scores for students aged 16 rose by 6.4 per cent. The economists say that's equivalent to an additional hour a week in school, or to increasing the school year by five days.

However, the researchers also sound a note of caution, adding that their findings don't discount the possibility that the gadgets could be a useful learning tool if their use is properly structured.

'Our findings suggest that the presence of mobile phones in schools should not be ignored,' the academics write in an LSE discussion paper Ill Communication: Technology, Distraction & Student Performance, published this month.

Beland, an Associate Professor at Louisiana State University, and Murphy, an Assistant Professor at the University of Texas and Associate at the Centre for Economic Performance at LSE, collected data from schools in Birmingham, Leicester, London and Manchester in 2013. All the schools had introduced a ban on mobile phones, either by not allowing them on the premises or requiring them to be handed in at the start of the day.

Survey responses were combined with student achievement data from the UK Government's National Pupil Database, dating back to 2001, to 'create a history of student performance in schools'.

'Despite the extensive use of mobile phones by students and the heated debate over how to treat them, the impact of mobile phones on high school student performance has not yet been academically studied,' the authors note in discussing the motivation for their study.

'Mobile phones can be a source of great disruption in workplaces and classrooms, as they provide individuals with access to texting, games, social media and the internet. Given these features, mobile phones have the potential to reduce the attention students pay to classes and can therefore be detrimental to learning.'

Although they didn't know which students owned mobile phones they say statistics suggesting more than 90 per cent of teens in England owned one of the gadgets during the period of their study meant any school ban would likely affect the vast majority of students. 'Even if a student does not own a phone themselves their presence in the classroom may cause distraction,' they add.

'We find that following a ban on phone use, student test scores improve by 6.41% ... our results indicate that there are no significant gains in student performance if a ban is not widely complied with,' Beland and Murphy write in the LSE paper.

'We find that mobile phone bans have very different effects on different types of students. Banning mobile phones improves outcomes for the low-achieving students [14.23%] the most and has no significant impact on high achievers.

'The results suggest that low-achieving students are more likely to be distracted by the presence of mobile phones, while high achievers can focus in the classroom regardless of whether phones are present.'

Beland and Murphy say, given the results, banning mobiles could be a cheap way for schools to reduce educational inequality.
References
Beland, L.P. & Murphy, R. (2015). CEP Discussion Paper No 1350: Ill Communication: Technology, Distraction & Student Performance. Centre for Economic Performance, London School of Economics and Political Science. Retrieved from http://cep.lse.ac.uk/pubs/download/dp1350.pdf (390KB)
Click on the link to read a follow-up article on this topic from Roger Broadie and Mal Lee, on creating a school culture that supports the inclusion and use of mobile phones in classrooms.
Does your school have a mobile phone policy? What was the aim of the policy? Has it had an impact on student learning?

Are you a class teacher who uses mobile phones as a learning tool? Has the technology had a positive impact on student learning?

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Banning mobile phones from schools boosts student performance in high stakes tests, according to a study published by the London School of Economics (LSE). Researchers Louis-Philippe Beland and Richard Murphy say low-achieving and low-income students gain the most, suggesting they are more likely to be distracted in the classroom by the technology.

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Should Mobile Phones Be Banned in Schools? | Good Morning Britain

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Should Students Be Barred From Taking Cellphones to School?

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Published: November 4th 2014

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New York City will be ending its longstanding ban on cellphones in public schools. For years the city argued that cellphones had no place in schools, and that they disrupted student learning. Many parents countered that cellphones were a vital link to their children.

Should students be allowed to take cellphones to school?

In the article "With School Ban Nearing End, New York City Works on How and When to Allow Cellphones," Motoko Rich and Kate Taylor write:

As New York prepares to lift its longstanding ban on cellphones carried by students in schools, it joins an increasing number of cities, including Chicago and Miami, where school leaders are yielding to the ubiquity of mobile phones and the futility of trying to keep them out of the classroom.

In an era when many parents want constant access to their children and students live in a digital social milieu, banning cellphones from schools is increasingly seen as counterproductive. And teachers are experimenting with technology and finding that the miniature computers many students carry in their pockets can be valuable classroom tools.

Schools are trying out various policies, with some permitting students to use their phones only during breaks or at lunch. Others are encouraging students to bring cellphones to school, where teachers invite them to conduct web searches or view educational videos. Even in districts with bans in place, educators realize they cannot stop students from using their phones.

"I don't think it's going to be very long before it becomes very standard" for schools to allow all students to carry cellphones, said Daniel A. Domenech, executive director of the American Association of School Administrators. "I think the horse is pretty much out of the barn in general."

In New York, after years of tolerating a "don't ask, don't tell" policy in some schools while practicing strict enforcement in others, the Education Department is working out the details of how and when to allow phones in schools.

Students: Read the entire article, then tell us ...

- Should students be allowed to take cellphones to school? Or should cellphones be banned in schools, as New York City has officially done for several years?

- What is your school's policy regarding cellphones? Do you take a phone to school? Has your cellphone helped or hurt your learning?

- Do you think cellphones are a distraction in school? Do students look at their phones instead of paying attention in class? Do you ever see students using phones to cheat? Do phones foster unhealthy social drama, or even bullying, in school?

- On the other hand, do students ever use their phones as a learning tool in school? For example, to do research, as a calculator, video camera or notetaking device?

- Is it important that parents and students can communicate with each other via celllphone during the school day? Why?

Students 13 and older are invited to comment below. Please use only your first name. For privacy policy reasons, we will not publish student comments that include a last name.

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New York City will be ending its longstanding ban on cellphones in public schools. For years the city argued that cellphones had no place in schools, and that they disrupted student learning. Many parents countered that cellphones were a vital link to their children. Should students be allowed to take cellphones to school?

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Phone Ban at School: French Children Forced to Hang Up

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French children who are going back to school Monday after summer vacation will have to do so without their mobile phones.

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We asked five experts: should mobile phones be banned in schools?

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NSW Minister for Education Rob Stokes has ordered a review into phone use in schools. He said the review would look at the risks and rewards of social media. The review will ultimately decide whether to ban mobile phones in NSW schools.

Finnish education expert Pasi Sahlberg also recently said he believed mobile phone-related distraction is a main reason for Australia sliding down in PISA rankings.

Parents and teachers have similar concerns about cyberbullying and safety, as well as technology distracting from schoolwork. But do the benefits of having phones in classrooms (such as contact with parents, access to mental health text lines, and learning opportunities) outweigh the risks?

We asked five experts if schools should ban mobile phones in classrooms.

Four out of five experts said no
Here are their detailed responses: If you have a "yes or no" education question you'd like posed to Five Experts, email your suggestion to: sophie.heizer@theconversation.edu.au Disclosures: Matthew Kearney receives funding from the ARC and Erasmus+.

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View all partners NSW Minister for Education Rob Stokes has ordered a review into phone use in schools. He said the review would look at the risks and rewards of social media. The review will ultimately decide whether to ban mobile phones in NSW schools.

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No - they help independent study

"You'll have someone's eye out with that" used to be the refrain of teachers in my day. In malevolent hands, a pencil, a rubber, even a piece of paper could become a lethal weapon in class, and that's before we got on to compasses and Bunsen burners.

A mobile is the same: a potentially potent tool for learning but strangely feared in a school pupil's hand, where it is assumed to wreak havoc with concentration, unleash cyber bullying and surreptitiously video up teachers' skirts.

But isn't it also madness when schools that cannot afford modern IT facilities ignore the powerful computers in every pupils' pocket?

I was amazed when I visited my old school recently: having remarked how sorry I felt for teachers in the mobile era, several teachers immediately declared how useful they were in class. There's even an acronym for it: BYOD, or Bring Your Own Device. As one teacher has argued in the Guardian, this is the future: students using their trusted devices rather than a machine they leave in school at the end of each day.

Jo Debens, a geography teacher at Priory School, Portsmouth, a comprehensive with a mixed intake, was dashing out to take 30 pupils orienteering when we spoke: her students were testing whether it was easier to use an OS map or a mobile phone's mapping services.

Earlier this year, the school drew up a "mobile device policy" in consultation with students. Mobile phones are allowed in school and used in class at the teacher's discretion, with a clear system of sanctions applied for misuse. Since the policy was introduced, only 1.4% of negative behavioural incidents have been connected with mobiles.

Pupils record homework tasks on their phone's calendar (why do they forget homework diaries but never their textbooks?) and in Debens's geography classes they use the camera function to record things and report back to class. They also use mobile internet for independent research.

"We're always being told as teachers that we should give pupils differentiated learning and personalise it. Now they can," says Debens of using mobiles. "Like anything, it's only useful in the hands of the user. They are not the be-all and end-all. We would have death by Wikipedia if all people were doing was cutting and pasting from them."

"I was very anti phones," admits Nasim Jahangir, a business and economics teacher at Wyggeston and Queen Elizabeth I College, Leicester. Several years ago, however, she incorporated smartphones into lessons as she "learned to teach in a different way" - with an emphasis on independent study. She admits it is probably easier to ensure his A-level classes use phones constructively but she thinks it has improved behaviour. "The whole atmosphere in the class has changed," she says, becoming less adversarial, with students policing themselves over inappropriate phone use.

What about pupils who cannot afford a smartphone? And what about children running up big bills doing school work on their phones? Jahangir ensures his tweeting and mobile phone work is accessible to all on the school's intranet. Debens says her school provides Wi-Fi and portable dongles with Wi-Fi so pupils are not paying for their own study. "We have people who come to school without a coat or without having had any breakfast," she says, "but they always have a phone." Patrick Barkham

Yes - they cause disruption and distress

Mobiles are the curse of the modern age - in restaurants, on trains and, most of all, in schools. Pupils are texting when they should be working; they use social networking sites to bully fellow pupils; and they post pictures of their teachers on YouTube. Ian Fenn, head of Burnage Media Arts College in Manchester, had had enough. "Mobiles rather crept up on education and in our experience it was a nightmare," he says. Fenn has banned pupils from making calls or sending texts on school premises and, according to the Daily Mail, the results in terms of improved behaviour and reduced cyberbullying have been dramatic.

Mobiles in schools is one of many issues over which the Mail obsesses, but that doesn't mean a ban is wrong. Indeed, in May an online poll in the Guardian produced a three-to-one vote in favour of a ban. The poll was prompted by a statement by Sir Michael Wilshaw, the new chief inspector of schools and head of Ofsted, that mobiles in schools were disruptive. When he was head of Mossbourne Academy in Hackney, east London, he banned them and said the decision produced immediate benefits.

Ofsted has supported Fenn's decision, but it admits , despite Wilshaw's views, it has no powers itself to impose a ban. "The issue is for schools to manage," says a spokeswoman. There is, in effect, a policy vacuum, with each school being left to decide best practice.

"We introduced a complete ban on mobile phones two years ago because of the disruption they were causing," says a spokeswoman for Cockshut Hill Technology College in Yardley, east Birmingham, "and it has improved behaviour. If pupils want to bring them in because of parents' fears for their safety getting to and from school, we provide lockers where they can be kept. But if we see them in school, we confiscate them. If they're confiscated three times, parents have to come and sign for them." The legality of similar schemes elsewhere has been challenged, but the spokeswoman insists parents and pupils have accepted the policy and that it has produced a much better learning environment.

Teachers union the NASUWT supports a classroom ban. In a recent survey, 46% of its members identified mobiles as a cause of disruption and indiscipline, and the union is particularly worried by pupils taking photographs in lessons and posting material on YouTube and social networking sites. NASUWT general secretary Chris Keates has said such material causes teachers "untold distress and trauma".

A recent report by the Scottish government concluded that mobiles were a "frequent and distracting influence", with cyberbullying especially prevalent. "Mobile phones in the classroom can be disruptive," says a spokesman for teachers union the Educational Institute of Scotland (EIS), "and their use should be the subject of an explicit school policy. While we understand parents might want their children to have mobiles with them because of concerns about safety, we don't see any reason for them to be in classrooms. An outright ban is very difficult and wouldn't gain parental support, but they need to be turned off during teaching time."

The EIS says that sometimes the rules are fuzzy, which is where arguments over confiscation occur. But the spokesman adds that the rash of "happy slapping" incidents a couple of years ago forced local authorities to confront the issue, and gradually a consensus is emerging. That consensus is that classrooms are for teaching not texting, and if the rules are clear parents will accept temporary confiscation. Stephen Moss

This article was amended on 28 November 2012. One of the teachers was mistakenly referred to as he rather than she.

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"You'll have someone's eye out with that" used to be the refrain of teachers in my day. In malevolent hands, a pencil, a rubber, even a piece of paper could become a lethal weapon in class, and that's before we got on to compasses and Bunsen burners.

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The Guardian view on mobile phones: schools are better without them

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Published: June 23rd 2018

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When a minister in this government stumbles on a policy that is both popular and good, it's newsworthy. Matt Hancock, the digital minister, has suggested that schools ban the use of mobile phones by their pupils. Amanda Spielman, the head of Ofsted, agrees. In France, the Macron government has put forward legislation that will ban the use of phones in all primary and middle schools. This removes the matter from the discretion of headteachers. Those who have already purged their playgrounds of screens report few problems. The measure seems entirely straightforward and sensible.

There are three kinds of damage that mobile phones can do in the playground and schools are right to tackle them. The most obvious may be the least serious: some games and apps are so overwhelmingly attractive when they first appear that unhappy children can be entirely swept away in them. Fortnite is the latest craze of this sort. Before that there were birds, variously angry and flappy. All these crazes evaporate in time and are replaced by others. The market is just too rewarding for those who get it right. On the whole, though, these problems are self-regulating. The second problem, which is not of course confined to school hours, is that social networks make bullying and cliquishness easier and perhaps more attractive. They make grownups behave like petulant teenagers and real teenagers have fewer defences against their own worst impulses. Schools are right to try to defend themselves and their pupils against such influences.

The most serious, though, is that the constant interruption and the state of twitchy half-attention promoted by the mobile phone tends to degrade the capacity for sustained attention, which schools need to teach. There is evidence, mentioned by Mr Hancock, that the mere presence of a phone makes it harder to concentrate, even when it is concealed in a bag or container. The expectation of distraction is its own distraction. This isn't just a matter of listening in lessons. Outside the classroom children are constantly learning - and teaching - important social lessons and they need to do this with their real companions rather than imaginary ones. Real communities are made from people who might not have chosen one another and schools should teach children how to live in them. Paying the tribute of attention to the people around us is part of that.

Yet there are practical difficulties with the idea of a national ban on the French model. It would not be reasonable to expect children not to bring their phones to school at all, when so much social life and practical interaction with parents is coordinated with them. If the phones are stored at school that raises security questions about where they are kept. What would be the sanctions for repeat offenders? These are questions for individual schools and headteachers to decide. If Mr Hancock and Ms Spielman are serious, they should be lobbying for financial support for the schools that must carry out their policy.
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The Guardian view on mobile phones: schools are better without them | Editorial

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When a minister in this government stumbles on a policy that is both popular and good, it's newsworthy. Matt Hancock, the digital minister, has suggested that schools ban the use of mobile phones by their pupils. Amanda Spielman, the head of Ofsted, agrees.

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What do five experts think about mobile phones in schools?

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Published: June 28th 2018

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The New South Wales education minister has ordered a review into mobile phone use in schools. Rob Stokes said the review would look at the risks and rewards of social media and would ultimately decide whether to ban them in NSW schools.

A Finnish education expert, Pasi Sahlberg, also recently said he believed mobile phone-related distraction was a main reason for Australia sliding down in Pisa rankings.

Parents and teachers have similar concerns about cyberbullying and safety, as well as technology distracting from schoolwork. But do the benefits of having phones in classrooms - such as contact with parents, access to mental health text lines, and learning opportunities - outweigh the risks?

We asked five experts if schools should ban mobile phones in classrooms.

Danielle Einstein, psychologist: yes

First, mobile phones are too easily used at the expense of face-to-face communication. Teenagers can message, avoiding a more challenging conversation. Second, smartphone apps and messages prompt dopamine release, creating addiction. Third, the mere presence of one's phone consumes attention even when it's not being checked. It's been shown we have reduced working memory capacity and fluid intelligence when our phone is upside down and silent on our desk compared with when it is in another room.

Finally, the introduction of smartphones has led to a decline in people's ability to cope with uncertainty. Research shows being uncomfortable with uncertainty is associated with students feeling distracted and tense during Naplan and other tests. The more uncomfortable young people are with uncertainty, the higher the number of co-occurring psychological problems they report experiencing. Smartphone use is associated with the current epidemic of anxiety and depression.

Matthew Kearney, teacher educator: no

First, regardless of any ban, students will continue to learn with their phones off-campus, later in life in their tertiary education, and in their professional and workplace learning. Second, if students want to investigate, collect data, receive personalised and immediate feedback, record media, create, compose or communicate with peers in and beyond the classroom, using mobile apps is ideal.

Also, if they want to learn at a place, time and pace of their choosing, for example on excursions, or work on projects with friends in more informal spaces like home, on a train or in Facebook groups, mobile devices are needed.

Joanne Orlando, technology and learning: no

We should not ban mobile phones in schools because it's important to educate children to live well in the era in which they are growing up. A good education for students today is knowing how to use technology to learn, communicate and work with ideas. There is significant research ( including my own) that shows selective, quality and empowering uses of technology provides new learning opportunities and the ability for students to develop skills they will need for their careers. The ability to copy work off the blackboard into an exercise book is not a skill today's employers are looking for.

Banning students from using smartphones is a 1950s response to a 2018 state of play. Mobile phone use is a complex social activity and taking phones away will likely lead to underground and hidden use by teens. This will exacerbate issues (such as cyberbullying) this call to ban phones is trying to address.

Damian Maher, ICT educator: no

Mobile phones serve many important functions. Digital literacy is a critical aspect of young people's schooling and research shows mobile phones can play a role in supporting such learning. It's important students learn with these devices so they can effectively participate in the workforce.

The phones provide a link between students and their parents, which has an important role to play in ensuring their safety. Evidence indicates parents want this type of access.

Teachers have an important role to teach students to be safe online.

In relation to health, research shows medical apps are important to support the health of young people, such as managing diabetes, and apps need to be accessed during schools hours. Rather than suggesting bans, we should be discussing ways to support young people to use their phones.

Susan Sawyer, paediatrician: no

Mobile phones are ubiquitous for secondary school students. Beyond the 3Rs, an important aspect of their learning is about safely negotiating online environments. This means all schools need to develop policies around the use of mobile phones during school hours. Given the dynamic nature of the mobile world, regularly engaging students and parents in reviewing and revising these policies is an important part of everyone's learning.

A particular benefit of mobile phones is they can provide access to therapeutic interventions for distressed young people while they are at school. Telephone support lines have long provided crisis support but are more commonly used outside school hours. The emergence of crisis text lines means adolescents can access text messaging support in real time, an approach that many find more accessible than telephone support, let alone face-to-face support, even with trained professionals at schools.

1. Damian Maher Senior lecturer in education, use of ICT and social media, University of Technology Sydney

2. Danielle Einstein Clinical psychologist, honorary associate, University of Sydney, and psychology department, Macquarie University

3. Joanne Orlando researcher, technology and learning, Western Sydney University

4. Matthew Kearney Associate Prof, teacher education program, University of Technology Sydney

5. Susan M Sawyer Prof of adolescent health, University of Melbourne, and director, Royal Children's hospital centre for adolescent health, University of Melbourne

This article was originally published on the Conversation. Read the original here https://theconversation.com/we-asked-five-experts-should-mobile-phones-be-banned-in-schools-98708

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'It's pretty easy to talk instead': pupils react to French phone ban

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Students and teachers on the new law aimed at detoxing teenagers from their screens