What is your school’s stance on pupil mobile phone use?
Phones are black holes for the real estate of our attention: banning them in schools is a no-brainer (Tom Bennett, 2021)
The debate
Mobile (smart) phone usage in schools has become one of the circuitous and binary debates within education. Critics call for bans where phones have no place in school life and even debate whether they should be in the possession of school age children. Proponents of smart phone use highlight their benefits for learning; heralding the new age of 21st Century learning which cannot be halted no matter how much critics push against the vanguard of progress.
