Forget sexting; all the cool kids do this

[PeterB]

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...rts/591064

... I had noticed this happening to me once at an airport, until I set AirDrop to private. I thought it was just a fluke or something, little did I realize that it was apparently intentional?

I find it kind of incredible that they don't seem to care about privacy issues... and it would have never occurred to me that they could also be using it for things like cheating on exams. (As an instructor, I always ask students to surrender their phones, but of course I have to also watch them for the possibility that they either didn't give up their phone or brought a second one.)

[freeradical]

People are always trying to find a way to cheat on exams.

Most of the Hewlett Packard RPN (Reverse Polish Notation) graphing calculators are forbidden for use on professional exams because they have an infrared communications port.

[Ombligo]

Phone use has gotten completely out of control in schools. I wish we had the resolve that France has - it banned all phones from its schools as a criminal offense. Until we do something similar, we are just fooling ourselves.

[N-OS X-tasy!]

Ombligo wrote:
Phone use has gotten completely out of control in schools. I wish we had the resolve that France has - it banned all phones from its schools as a criminal offense. Until we do something similar, we are just fooling ourselves.

Hear, hear!

[PeterB]

Ombligo wrote:
Phone use has gotten completely out of control in schools. I wish we had the resolve that France has - it banned all phones from its schools as a criminal offense. Until we do something similar, we are just fooling ourselves.

As an instructor, this is something I have to deal with on a fairly daily basis. The views range from completely banning the phones, to actually actively getting the students to use them in class.

I fall somewhere in the middle, but closer to the former than the latter ... in my experience, the temptation is really just too great for students to be doing things on their devices other than paying attention and learning. Also there is a lot of good data out there to prove that getting the students' attention away from their devices really does improve performance (duh!).

Also, I've observed firsthand that phone addiction is a very real thing -- if I were somehow able to get them to part with their phones for an hour, they would become VERY anxious and not know what to do with themselves.

As with most edu issues, the problems start at home. Apparently the average age for a child in the U.S. to receive their first phone is now 10. If parents complain that students can't have phones, and the children themselves complain, and the schools just give in, not surprisingly, that sets a precedent that lasts long through college and probably also the workplace.

[SteveO]

Phones are today's Soma.

[Rolando]

Ombligo wrote:
Phone use has gotten completely out of control in schools. I wish we had the resolve that France has - it banned all phones from its schools as a criminal offense. Until we do something similar, we are just fooling ourselves.

The fact that a phone has been used by kids to say goodbye to their parents due to mass shootings tells me that would be putting the cart far in front of the horse.

[Filliam H. Muffman]

PeterB wrote: Also, I've observed firsthand that phone addiction is a very real thing -- if I were somehow able to get them to part with their phones for an hour, they would become VERY anxious and not know what to do with themselves.

One of the worst modern examples of bad parenting to let your kids get to this point. Most tech leaders that have kids severely limit their access.

[PeterB]

Filliam H. Muffman wrote:
[quote=PeterB]Also, I've observed firsthand that phone addiction is a very real thing -- if I were somehow able to get them to part with their phones for an hour, they would become VERY anxious and not know what to do with themselves.

One of the worst modern examples of bad parenting to let your kids get to this point. Most tech leaders that have kids severely limit their access.
Then I would say we have a very serious problem with bad parenting ... most, if not all, of my students fall into this category. https://bigthink.com/surprising-science/...tion-study

[Filliam H. Muffman]

PeterB wrote:
[quote=Filliam H. Muffman]
[quote=PeterB]Also, I've observed firsthand that phone addiction is a very real thing -- if I were somehow able to get them to part with their phones for an hour, they would become VERY anxious and not know what to do with themselves.

One of the worst modern examples of bad parenting to let your kids get to this point. Most tech leaders that have kids severely limit their access.
Then I would say we have a very serious problem with bad parenting ... most, if not all, of my students fall into this category. https://bigthink.com/surprising-science/...tion-study
Hard to say at the moment if they are going to be a lost generation, or computer implants will herald a new stage in our evolution. In the 90's there was a Twilight Zone where 99.99% of the population had implants and couldn't even read paper books. Society was almost destroyed when the implants were taken over by a virus, but the few people without them allowed it to restart.