Thanks so much to the more than 2,000 of you who responded to our survey about cell phone policies in schools and parent preferences. CNN.com just featured our results for middle schools in an Op-Ed I wrote. Elementary and high school results will come later.
I am so glad to give you these important results below and to ask for your help moving forward.
The main finding is alarming. The majority of middle schools (55%) allow students to carry a cell phone on them all day. That means only 45% of middle schools require students put their phones away for the day, such as keeping them in lockers. Public schools are more likely than private schools to allow students to have their phones all day.
And as I explain in the Op-Ed, science and experience show that allowing middle schoolers to carry phones all day can negatively impact their academic success and emotional well-being.
The second key finding—and this gives us hope—is that over 80% of parents of middle schoolers do not want their kids to use their phones during the school day.
Parents want what the science supports—when it comes to creating optimal learning environments, policies that take cell phones out of reach of middle schoolers is ideal.
We believe so much in the importance of this that we have decided to dedicate time and energy to:
We have been compiling data, examples of specific “away for the day” policies, videos, and many other tools—and we need your help!
For this week’s TTT we would love you to do any or all of these:
We will be rolling out tools soon and will be eager to have your involvement all along the way. If you want the full middle school report, please email me at delaney@screenagersmovie.com.
I feel so grateful that so many of us want to decrease distractions and help our nation’s students.
With much appreciation,
Delaney and the whole Screenagers team
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Thanks so much to the more than 2,000 of you who responded to our survey about cell phone policies in schools and parent preferences. CNN.com just featured our results for middle schools in an Op-Ed I wrote. Elementary and high school results will come later.
I am so glad to give you these important results below and to ask for your help moving forward.
The main finding is alarming. The majority of middle schools (55%) allow students to carry a cell phone on them all day. That means only 45% of middle schools require students put their phones away for the day, such as keeping them in lockers. Public schools are more likely than private schools to allow students to have their phones all day.
And as I explain in the Op-Ed, science and experience show that allowing middle schoolers to carry phones all day can negatively impact their academic success and emotional well-being.
The second key finding—and this gives us hope—is that over 80% of parents of middle schoolers do not want their kids to use their phones during the school day.
Parents want what the science supports—when it comes to creating optimal learning environments, policies that take cell phones out of reach of middle schoolers is ideal.
We believe so much in the importance of this that we have decided to dedicate time and energy to:
We have been compiling data, examples of specific “away for the day” policies, videos, and many other tools—and we need your help!
For this week’s TTT we would love you to do any or all of these:
We will be rolling out tools soon and will be eager to have your involvement all along the way. If you want the full middle school report, please email me at delaney@screenagersmovie.com.
I feel so grateful that so many of us want to decrease distractions and help our nation’s students.
With much appreciation,
Delaney and the whole Screenagers team
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Thanks so much to the more than 2,000 of you who responded to our survey about cell phone policies in schools and parent preferences. CNN.com just featured our results for middle schools in an Op-Ed I wrote. Elementary and high school results will come later.
I am so glad to give you these important results below and to ask for your help moving forward.
The main finding is alarming. The majority of middle schools (55%) allow students to carry a cell phone on them all day. That means only 45% of middle schools require students put their phones away for the day, such as keeping them in lockers. Public schools are more likely than private schools to allow students to have their phones all day.
And as I explain in the Op-Ed, science and experience show that allowing middle schoolers to carry phones all day can negatively impact their academic success and emotional well-being.
The second key finding—and this gives us hope—is that over 80% of parents of middle schoolers do not want their kids to use their phones during the school day.
Parents want what the science supports—when it comes to creating optimal learning environments, policies that take cell phones out of reach of middle schoolers is ideal.
We believe so much in the importance of this that we have decided to dedicate time and energy to:
We have been compiling data, examples of specific “away for the day” policies, videos, and many other tools—and we need your help!
For this week’s TTT we would love you to do any or all of these:
We will be rolling out tools soon and will be eager to have your involvement all along the way. If you want the full middle school report, please email me at delaney@screenagersmovie.com.
I feel so grateful that so many of us want to decrease distractions and help our nation’s students.
With much appreciation,
Delaney and the whole Screenagers team
Here is a video from the Screenagers YouTube Channel that talks more about this subject
This year, millions of students are experiencing a major shift: school days without phones, smartwatches, or other personal devices. Today we explore the wins, hurdles, and solutions helping schools succeed. We also share our resources that you can use to support technology policy changes in your schools.
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I recently sat down with middle school principal Zach at his school in Washington State. We talked about the challenges Zach and his team faced in his early years as principal when students used phones during school, and how he brought about a powerful transformation by having phones and smartwatches put away in locked pouches for the whole school day. In today’s blog, to raise awareness of the challenges, I share five real examples from Zach of the troubling ways students use phones at school to be unkind.
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It is with great pleasure that I share with you today a piece that Lisa Tabb and I did for Jonathan Haidt's (Author of The Anxious Generation) and researcher Zack Rausch's Substack blog — After Babel. In it, we discuss the rise in use of smartwatches in elementary schools and the problems they pose. There is a real cost to arming (pun intended) our kids with these devices and sending them to school. Now is the time to stop and fully address this topic and ensure that schools become smartwatch and phone-free.
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