Claude responded: A new state law banning smartphones during instructional time took effect Jan.A new state law banning smartphones during instructional time took effect Jan. 1 in North Carolina, but a Chapel Hill-Carrboro parent group of more than 300 members says the bigger problem is the school-issued Chromebooks kids bring home. Founder Mary Beth Roche and UNC public health professor Karl Johnson argue district policy is moving too slowly and too narrowly, while a new UNC study shows uneven enforcement of the cellphone ban statewide and growing distraction from school-issued devices.
Making this program a target would be a major political mistake that would help nobody, and far more people would be up in arms than will be seen at the NCAE event on May 1.
We’ve done the easy part: setting the wheels in motion; the true test is what it can deliver and how quickly we get to work on executing reforms.
NC middle schoolers are still widely using smartphones in class despite a state law requiring bans, with enforcement uneven and more than a third of students using workarounds to bypass school filters.
Even if they ban devices during instructional hours, the effect of constant screen time outside of class is ruining students' ability to listen, comprehend, focus, retain information, read books at their own grade level.
Many parents worry about how EdTech is fundamentally shifting their role in their children’s education, crowding out family involvement for yet more screen time.
Instruction built so heavily around screens is not only a financial liability — it’s also taking a toll on students’ learning.
Mysty Blagg’s twins, like most public school students in North Carolina, are falling behind. Academically. Probably socially and emotionally, too. Blagg’s two 7-year-olds, Reagan and Luke, attend school in Wake County, which — in part because of the governor’s lockdowns and union pressure — opted to start the fall semester with full-time remote learning. As...
I spent several days with three students who are, by mandate from the governor and the Mecklenburg County school board, learning at home. Hayden, Stephen, and Caroline are in the third, sixth, and eighth grades, respectively. Their mom, Hillary, who is single, started a new job in September and is working from home. Here’s what...
More money and iPads are coming to K-3 classrooms to bolster literacy instruction, but critics question the methods used to improve reading scores. The Department of Public Instruction will make an additional $400 available to all K-3 classrooms for literacy instruction. The department will also send out more iPads so that every K-3 classroom has...
