Comment by est

Comment by est 8 hours ago

If phones were totally banned for kids, where would the kid get to know the world?

TVs? Newspapers? Magazines?

Well those are on-way, with limited feedbacks. What's the better alternative except phones?

For those of us who grew up before 2000, we somehow managed. I think younger people today will as well.

ojame 7 hours ago

Also it's important to note the topic is during school hours. There's a wealth of knowledge to learn at school, and there's also a wealth to learn outside of school. Knowledge about the world can, and will, happen in both. Many hours outside of school to 'grow your knowledge' through your phone.

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lmm 5 hours ago

> For those of us who grew up before 2000, we somehow managed
You had TV, newspapers and magazines - and perhaps more importantly, public libraries. The current generation doesn't, not if you take away their phones.

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card_zero 4 hours ago

No we didn't. I never learned how to write games for 8-bit computers in assembler, like commercial games. No source of information would tell me about anything other than BASIC. There was no way to find out.

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- kelnos 3 hours ago
  
  Not sure how having a smartphone in class would have allowed you to do that, though. And regardless, if you're in a physics or language class, you should be focusing on those those topics, not learning how to write computer games.
  My high school did offer a computer science class in the 90s, and students who took it got to use the school's computer lab. If your school didn't have something like that, that's a shame, but that doesn't suggest that you should have been able to ignore the presented curriculum and do whatever you wanted.
  
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