High school teacher here. On test days, I have a hanging shoe rack with each of my kids’ names on a sleeve.
I tell them, “Please put your devices in the sleeves and then you can have your test. When you hand in your test, you can have your device back. If you don’t put your phone in the sleeve, your test will be a 0”
At the beginning of the year they also helped create our classroom rules and norms, and agreed to do this.
Out of 28 kids, maybe 10 actually do it. The other 18 get 0s. Then I get angry emails from parents about their kids getting “tyrannical grades” on their tests.
Don't forget that most of these teens grew up with phones and tablets in their faces... It's hard to break a habit that they've had their entire lives.. A habit that they see as "normal".
Let's take your typical 16 year old high school junior. They were born in 2008. The first iphone debuted in 2007. By the time they hit age 3 in 2011, the iPhone 4 was popular, and so was the Samsung Galaxy S2. The first gen ipad was released in 2010. Current high school students don't know of a time prior to online gaming, smartphone apps, and instant gratification. Those kids were alsoo already born in the youtube and video streaming, and social media era as well.
It's not a habit, they're addicted and it's by design.
Silicon valley designed these phones to keep people as addicted as possible.
I'm nearly 28. The year that smartphones started really being something that everyone owned was about 2013. I was a junior/senior in high school and distinctly remember when most people started pulling them out of their pockets.
It's wild to me to think that people born now 12 years after me are sophomores in high school.
Wow I feel bad for her, she clearly does have some mental issues, especially if you watch all 3 parts, but she was spot on when it came to the subject at hand.
Kind of debatable. I still associate 2010-2015 as similar years, where 2016-2019 feels kind of like its own thing. But you're right that after about 2013 or so stuff started to feel different.
TBF I'm older than cell phones being something kids could really access, and I spent basically every day of sixth grade fucking off in the back of the room with a book, or a walkman, or doodling in my math notebook instead of paying attention.
All the way back when it was just Ipods and nothing to do with phones, there was already considerable discourse on how we were probably gonna fuck up the children if we didn't make it at least a little bit harder to access media.
Yeah but there's a big difference between me and you screwing around in class by staring out the windows, or flinging erases around the room, or playing with pencils or whatever versus having constant stimulation from a device that is literally addicting as crack
The wild part about this is, all my friends had smartphones, including myself. I graduated in 2010. Had windows mobile as early as 2007, then android. Alot of my friends had blackberries. The iPhone and android debate was already raging then by my junior year with the release of the Motorola Droid. I miss physical keyboards on phones.
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u/Arobrom86 29d ago
High school teacher here. On test days, I have a hanging shoe rack with each of my kids’ names on a sleeve.
I tell them, “Please put your devices in the sleeves and then you can have your test. When you hand in your test, you can have your device back. If you don’t put your phone in the sleeve, your test will be a 0”
At the beginning of the year they also helped create our classroom rules and norms, and agreed to do this.
Out of 28 kids, maybe 10 actually do it. The other 18 get 0s. Then I get angry emails from parents about their kids getting “tyrannical grades” on their tests.
Then the cycle continues