Mobile Learning

A blanket ban on mobile phones in NSW public high schools will be rolled out from Monday, but the nation’s peak mental health research organisation has raised concern about the decision.

Phones can be addictive and distracting, and take a toll on teen mental health. Some schools are pushing back.

The eSafety commissioner will release a toolkit to help schools have difficult but age-appropriate conversations with school-aged children, and have them often.

NSW is about to follow other states like South Australia and Victoria in banning phones in public high schools.

So what's happening in other schools who've already prohibited the devices?

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.