Nice review of the evidence for banning phones in schools. This reviews huge studies across numerous countries. The big takeaway: there’s no effect on children’s outcomes. According to the latest evidence, cell phone bans don’t work.
New review time, as I test out the highly affordable Aspera Nitro 2. The pitch is that it can replace older 3G-only phones... but is it worth catching?
So I found myself in a weird predicament. I had some older laptops that I converted to #Debian & #XFce with a bunch of added apps and games. I gave some to my family, and the rest I wanted to give them to kids for school. I asked around. Well, no one seems to want them. No one is using computers anymore in #Greece it seems, they only use #smartphones. They barely browse the web too (just some gov sites). They just use #tiktok and few apps, consoles for games. That's it.
Wieviele Smartphones und Handys habt ihr eigentlich in eurem Leben besessen?
Und wenn ihr diese Frage beantworten koennt: was habt ihr mit denen gemacht, nachdem ihr sie nicht mehr nutzt? Verkauft? Verschenkt oder vielleicht sogar recyclet?
We will have old, otherwise unsupported #computers and #smartphones for visitors to try, as well as some new ones, all running #FreeSoftware.
The oldest, Dell Latitude D600, would have become #eWaste in 2010. If it were human, today it could legally drink alcohol in the USA ... it is that old and, with a little patience, still quite usable!
📲 Hat Euer Smartphone noch eine Zukunft? Der "HandyCheck" von mobilsicher.de hilft Euch mit individuellen Tipps und Anleitungen zu alten und/oder defekten Smartphones.
Infinix makes some great bang-for-buck smartphones, and the Note 40 Pro+ has a fresh new look!
Have we seen this design before though?
Let’s check it out!
Samsung wieder vor Apple als Marktführer bei Smartphones
Der koreanische Hersteller Samsung hat Apple im vergangenen Quartal wieder vom Spitzenplatz im Smartphone-Markt verdrängt. Ein besonders großer Sprung nach vorn gelang Transsion aus China.
I blame TikTok, Facebook reels and any kind of stupid short form reels for the noise pollution in cafe's and trains.
Both my parents seem hopelessly addicted to them and during my Penang vacay it took all my strength not to grab their phones and throw them out of the window because both liked to watch them with phone speakers on - at the same time!!! - while I am just trying to chill in the living room.
Did smartphones destroy a generation? The kids are not all right, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt argues in his new book “The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness.” Vox’s Eric Levitz explores what the evidence says about mobile devices and teen mental health. https://flip.it/0XXXzq #Tech#Technology#Smartphones#Health#MentalHealth
#SocialMedia#Smartphones#MentalHealth: "For teenagers with existing mental health issues who seek comfort or answers online, social media looks custom-built to amplify whatever dark feelings of inadequacy they’re already struggling with, while for bullied children, smartphones enable persecution around the clock. Those two risks alone should be enough to invoke the precautionary principle, and Esther Ghey’s plan – which essentially treats social media like alcohol or tobacco, legal harms that kids must learn to navigate eventually but preferably not before they’re mature enough to cope – does so.
But treating smartphones as the only source of children’s unhappiness is scientifically shaky and politically too convenient, skating as it does over significantly more expensive problems to solve: poverty, parental stress, the shocking under-provision both of children’s mental health services and youth work services offering safe, interesting, alternative ways for kids to spend their time. It’s perhaps not a coincidence that Haidt’s thesis – in which the key role for the state is the relatively cheap one of regulator – has been most eagerly adopted on the political right.
Yet even he stresses that this isn’t just about phones, but over-anxious parenting and the decline of adventurous, unsupervised play for younger children: climbing trees and falling out of them, making dens, roaming the neighbourhood on your bike, and other experiences the National Trust’s research suggests too many children lack." https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/apr/02/kids-time-online-tech-firms-government-play
We've "progressed" in #IT so hard that we've come back to full circle to #timesharing systems. :chuckling_okuu: Replace the "mainframe" with the #cloud and replace the terminals with #smartphones and #chromebooks. :reimu_sigh:
Soon the concept of a true #personalcomputer is going to be an endangered species. :seija_coffee:
A new bill from #SanFrancisco Assembly Member #MattHaney would clearly outline when companies can communicate w/their #employees during off hrs, following other countries that have passed “right to disconnect” #laws.
#AB2751 would require companies to lay out the expected working hrs in #employment contracts….It would also give state #labor authorities the power to investigate & fine companies that show a pattern of barging in on employees’ personal time.
“Work has changed drastically compared to what it was just 10 yrs ago. #Smartphones have blurred the boundaries between #work & #home life. Workers shouldn’t be punished for not being available 24/7 if they’re not being paid for 24hrs of work,” Haney said.