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Parents and teachers are realising the damage social media can do to young children, so now we have a strict new code 
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Young people (plus parents and educators) reflect on the potential hazards of smartphones for children.
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Administrators see them as an intensifying distraction — or, worse, a tax on students’ mental health.
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Too often schools and teachers are lumped with solving all of life’s ills. For a phone ban to be effective, parents must share some of the burden.
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Phones can be addictive and distracting, and take a toll on teen mental health. Some schools are pushing back.
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Mobile learning is well established in literature and practice, but under-evolved from a rigorous learning design perspective. Activity theory presents a sophisticated way of mapping and understanding learning design, but for mobile learning this does not always translate into change in practice. The reported research addresses this by coupling a mobile learning specific approach to activity theory with a practice-based framework: the design for transformative mobile learning framework mapped to the pedagogy-andragogy-heutagogy continuum matrix (the DTML-PAH Matrix). Seven case studies are analysed using this approach and presented narratively along with framework informed analysis. Findings include that the DTML-PAH Matrix can be used to provide clearer implications and guidance for mobile learning practice, and that the DTML-PAH Matrix can also be guided by the practice over time. Implications for further research and practice are discussed.
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The events of the last two years have changed classroom education. In particular, transitioning to every student having a laptop in the classroom has created both new opportunities and challenges.
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The effects of mobiles phones and other technology at school is a hotly debated topic in many countries. Some advocate for a complete ban to limit distractions, while others suggest using technology as a teaching tool. Kids in public South Australian primary schools started the school year without being allowed to bring their mobile phones to class, unless they are needed for class activity. All students in public Western Australian Victorian, and Tasmanian schools have a mobile phone ban in place since for all or some of 2020. New South Wales also banned mobile phones in public primary schools, with secondary schools having the option to opt in, since the start of 2020.
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The Education Minister Dan Tehan has said research shows mobile phone bans have a positive effect on academic performance. But this is not necessarily true.
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The eSafety commissioner will release a toolkit to help schools have difficult but age-appropriate conversations with school-aged children, and have them often.
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The question of whether or not to allow students to use smartphones, laptops and other technology in the classroom has been long-debated, and at times
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This paper describes the implementation of a mobile learning teaching resource - StudyTXT – in an introductory accounting decision-making course. The paper explains the philosophy of the course and how the educational rationale underlying the use of StudyTXT might facilitate the attainment of the course objectives. The paper further illustrates how StudyTXT is developed, implemented and used in the course, with references to appropriate literature. A questionnaire-based evaluation of StudyTXT by students reports on their perceptions about the impact of the teaching resource, as well as about the factors that either encouraged students to, or discouraged them from, using StudyTXT. The paper concludes with suggestions for the further utilisation of the resource.
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The research paints a murky picture, but perpetual hand-wringing says plenty about adult biases.
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They impede learning, stunt relationships, and lessen belonging. They should be banned.
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Federal Education Minister Jason Clare says he wants a national approach to mobile phone bans in Australian schools.
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NSW is about to follow other states like South Australia and Victoria in banning phones in public high schools.
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Ongoing student surveys at the University of Central Florida show the evolution and impact of the pandemic on students’ mobile device ownership and us
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Classrooms should not be a free-for-all TikTok fest. But we need to support children to learn how to concentrate and function in a digitally-saturated world.
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There are endless distractions keeping young people glued to their cell phones, but Lock&Stock is incentivizing students fight their digital addiction.
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Near-ubiquitous mobile-device ownership and widespread internet connectivity offer opportunities for mobile learning to take center stage during the c
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New research suggests nearly all Australian smartphone users experience "nomophobia" – or fear of being without their mobile phones - and more than one in eight have severe symptoms associated with illegal or dangerous behaviour.
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The circumstances of the COVID-19 pandemic highlight the opportunities and benefits that mobile technologies can provide to students and instructors as they learn and teach in unusual times.
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At one school in Melbourne's south-east, students have accepted Victoria’s new mobile phone ban but pushback has come from an unexpected quarter: parents.
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