As a teacher....I have no issues with this.
Iowa Gov. Reynolds to pitch barring students from having cellphones in classrooms
At least eight states have such bans, which proponents say prevent students from being distracted during school instruction time and also help address concerns about students’ mental health.www.thegazette.com
I generally quit fighting that war. I'll tell a kid a few times to get off the phone but I'm done trying to prevent a kid from failing because of the phone. I step in enough times to be able to say I tried but if a kid is going to fail because of the phone than they need to fail because of their phone. Sometimes its the only way they learn their lesson.
That will be the next big education debate of the future. How much do people really need to “know” or memorize versus a shift towards being taught to be able to effectively find the correct answers, to the correct questions, in the correct context, using artificial intelligence and other technologies.
Maybe he may have learned more if his phone wasn’t distracting him in school.
Asking the age-old question of education in the Information Age..is it more important to know how to reach the correct answer or find the correct answer? This question has been the focus of discussion regarding modern education for 50 years or more.
So like I originally said. You admit that it is a good thing but you still had to throw the governor under the bus.
Oh well yeah. I guess it's possible a random anonymous dude on a message board who read a couple paragraphs could know us better than a father who has been with his son every step of the way for 18 years.
It was a response to northerns whining, which you conveniently left out. It's not that she's a Republican. It's that she and her party have enacted several policies detrimental to teachers in this state. Not the least of which is neutering collective bargaining. Or giving public tax money to wealthy private schools. Those are just facts.
Sooo you're stalking some of your students and their families to the point you know where they live and what they put it for yard signs. Awesome. Do the world a favor and find another profession.
Do you “need to reach him” at allOh well yeah. I guess it's possible a random anonymous dude on a message board who read a couple paragraphs could know us better than a father who has been with his son every step of the way for 18 years.
AI will be an essential tool in the workplace and it is unlikely that anyone in school right now will do their job without the extensive help of AI entities. However, AI has no place in schools from k-10th grades. In my professional opinion, you have to prove you have mastered skills and topics on your own before you can start using shortcuts for them. Because it's one thing to know how to do things, but what never gets talked about are the reasons we learn to perform certain tasks, and it's not so that we will know how to find the volume of a cone on the off chance the opportunity pops up when we are 35. The process of learning how to perform those tasks trains our brains to learn how to systematically approach a problem and solve it. I tell my students that Geometry isn't a math class. Geometry is a class that teaches you how to make a valid and reasoned argument. They just use geometry facts as a context to teach it.
Because I see the truth in this situation? Kim was “upstaged” by the DMPS here and she HATES that particular school district for professional reasons (they openly opposed much of her education agenda)…Kim has never been afraid of stealing other folks ideas and claiming credit for them…. This is another case in point, DooBi. Sorry for the dose of reality here. Kim, like Trump has learned that if you speak the same bullshit, loud enough and long enough, folks will become tone deaf and acquiesce over time.
IA… the fact is that the governor STOLE the idea from the DMPS…and the union that she hates the most! This was not the Governor’s idea until last week when initial reports about the program as run at Hoover Hugh came back from parents as overwhelmingly positive! Kim is no dummy…. She knows which way the wind blows…. Now she is claiming it as her idea?!Bullshit…there is a truth out there to be told.
It is NOT a state issue…it is a district issue. I thought Kim and GOP were “small government” folks? So, except for schools, bedrooms and pregnancies, they are all for “ small unobtrusive government?…. Until the next issue?
I know my old high school already started doing this this year. So they would probably keep doing it even if they were exempt.
The "slippery slope" remains undefeated over history
How lame is this critique? That a politician took a good idea from somewhere and implemented it? That is something that we criticize now? I thought that would be something we would want our leaders to do.
Doubling down on political induced stupidity. Very nice. You do realize there are 328 school districts in iowa right?
Yep…and each one is different from the next. What ever happened to “ local control” you dipshit? A couple of years ago “local control” was a mainstay of Iowa Republicanism. Now, not so much. Apparently. Why a “state law” banning phones? Are independent districts incapable of making their own decisions? Will the rule apply to private schools?
Again, it is a local control issue…let the individual school boards bake their rules he at work for their district. No place for government interference.
I'm told that it should be up to the states about whether to abort cell phones in schools.
No, it really should not. It is a district decision. “One size fits all” legislation is fraught with local problems. But then Kim and Iowa GOP are pretty tone deaf most of the time.
Triple down. Very impressive. Really stupid but impressive none the less.
In what way is cell phone usage a local control issue? I can see it as a state issue for sure. Now, I don't want them "banned" per say....but simply some kind of control during the classroom time. Yes, I know some schools already do it, our district does.....but lets give every kid the chance to learn without that distraction during class. What could be so bad about this?
Then change the “open enrollment” rules..that would be a legislative responsibility…but let the independent districts make their own rules about cell phones, specific curriculum content and stuff like that! Maybe we should have the Governor and Legislature ban tatoos too, because we all know those kids are bad.
