Belgium's ban on Smartphones in Schools
Footnotes:
Note: All URLs were last accessed on 19 September 2024.
- Statement: Belgium is banning smartphones in schools like other countries
- Statement: Belgian students will have to hand in their phone for the whole day
- Statement: Schools hope this will reduce distractions, restore human interaction, reduce bullying
- Statement: Telling children they can’t do something only makes them want to do that more
- Reactance Theory, proposed by psychologist Jack Brehm in 1966 (studies: Pennebaker and Sanders (1976) + Jellison and Mills (1969))
- Statement: Children don’t have enough self control to stay away from temptations on the Internet
- Statement: Mobile phones / social media is a whole new way of bullying people (kids)
- Statement: The Norwegian study
- Statement: Cyber-bullying is estimated to impact 20% of Belgian kids in 2022
- Statement: UNESCO has been calling for a ban on smartphones in schools since 2023
- Statement: When you are young, you are influenced by social media so much that you get the wrong opinion of how the world works
- mediaandsociety.org/2023/03/03/how-social-media-creates-a-false-sense-of-reality/
- There is currently a move to ban social media for young kids in Australia right now, so there may also be articles about this in the Australian press.
- Statement: France banned smart phones in schools in 2018
- Statement: The Netherlands and Italy have banned smart phones in schools
- Statement: China has already banned phones in schools for ≳ 10 years
- Misleading – Some schools in Beijing did have policies that limited smartphone usage before the nationwide ban in March 2021 (some of them dating back to 2010), but in general there was not yet a ban on smartphones in schools in China in 2014.
- www.bbc.com/news/technology-55902778
- Note: “Het treineffect” ≠ “The train effect”
- The train effect is something else in English, referring to induced fear in audiences as they watch movies. In Dutch, “het treineffect” refers to a gradual build-up from very small actions to that over a long period of time become bigger things. In English, we could call this the snowball effect, but that implies that it builds up quickly, and gets faster and faster. We should then perhaps translate “het treineffect” as “the slow snowball effect” instead!
- Statement: The trend in the workplace is that people are becoming more mindful of their phone usage
- Nothing could be found to corroborate that the trend in the workplace is that people are becoming more mindful of their phone usage.
- Statement: Most work University students do needs to be done on a phone or a laptop
- Some publications seem to corroborate this statement.
- Some publications seem to disprove the sentiment behind the statement.
- Statement: Kids in the past exchanged ring tones and played basic Nokia phone games
- Statement: It’s possible to follow up your screen (usage) time on your phone
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