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Ep 9. The tweet that roared with Tom Bennett

Chalk & Talk

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Cell Phones in Schools

I don't like working in groups for some of the reasons you mentioned. I also think that when students are first learning things and they're in groups, and now you have people teaching each other who they're not experts,. And so it just doesn't make good sense. Mobile phones have got almost no place whatsoever in a classroom or a school. If I were to design something which would impede learning as much as possible, it would look like a cell phone. When enacted means that you never see a phone again.

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