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Faculty members at one small college think a formal policy restricting personal technology use in the classroom will cut down on distractions and improve learning. 
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"Providing faculty with the option to limit or disable Wi-Fi during class sessions acknowledges the distractions that attend the technology and asserts the value of student engagement."
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In K-12 and college classrooms across the country, some educators are enacting at least partial device bans, some are advocating for teaching-style changes (fewer lectures, for example) and still others are seeking help from the technology itself. There’s little consensus, except that the peril of digital distraction neither starts nor ends in school, and learning to tame our tech obsession is a new and vital life skill.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
What do you think? Ban or No Ban?
Tilly's curator insight,
November 12, 2018 4:28 PM
Inquiry Session 4: Technology
This article looked at both sides of the tech-in-classroom debate. While there is evidence supporting both sides, the overall sentiment of the article was advocating for a compromise. That could be a "techbreak", an adjustment in teaching styles, or a more responsible and guided use of technology in the classroom.
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It turns out that with the right app, social-media devices in the classroom help students learn — especially when the subject is sex.
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Colleges are integrating mobile technology into campus life, meaning limits on students' use of such devices could become harder to enforce.
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We asked readers to share their policies on the use of cell phones and other electronic devices in class. About 50 readers did so, and the polices run the gamut--from banning to embracing to ignoring--and everything in between.
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Course policies play an important role in creating the classroom climate—a role we underscore by carefully going over those policies when we first meet students. It’s useful to look at the policies as a whole and ask what kind of climate they collectively create.
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