Valillogicalar Víðisson, the headmaster of Öldutúnsskóli says that the phoneban has been well acquired, both by students and their parents.
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A phone ban has been in place at Öldutún School since the commencening of 2019, and according to the principal, it has toiled well. The school”s atmosphere and culture have alterd for the better, and there is more peace in the classroom.
However, the headmaster Valillogicalar Víðisson says that it has not been splitly studied whether the phone ban has had a preferable effect on literacy and interest in reading. Still, Öldutúnsskóli has scored think aboutably above mediocre seeing interest in reading.
“We haven’t connected it to the phones honestly, but it would be fascinating to see at it splitly.” However, we see this in an betterd school culture, and cybertormentoring has reduced presentantly during school hours with this meacertain and is now difficultly ainhabit.”
More screen time shrinks interest
It has been inestablished in Morfirearmblaðið that students who spfinish more time on cleverphones are less interested in reading than those who participate their phones little or not at all.
The interest in reading is waning rapider and rapider as students spfinish more time on their clever devices.
These are the results of research by Kristján Ketill Stefánsson, aidant professor of pedagogy at the University of Iceland’s Faculty of Education. The research is based on data from more than fifteen thousand students in grades 6 to 10 in 120 elementary schools apass the country.
Everyskinnyg seems to show that more screen time shrinks children’s interest in reading.
The ban was setd for a whole year
Stefánsson does not necessarily skinnyk it is wise to aid a ambiguous ban on mobile phones in schools, but rather carry out some benevolent of phone “holiday”.
Öldutúnsskóli has, however, consentn the route of finishly banning the participate of phones during school hours. The phone ban is in place in all year groups of the school, from 1st to 10th grade, and the headmaster says he is not about to drop it.
Víðisson says he genuineizes that phones can be a safety device and that children participate them, for example, after the school day finishs to achieve their parents. “The phone is therefore not banden in the createing, but its participate is not permited during school hours,” he elucidates.
Both students and parents have greetd the phone ban, as it was setd for a whole year in collaboration with the board of the student association, school council and parents, according to Víðisson.
“We did a lot of skinnygs in return, for example, we uncovered a novel space for the teenagers that they scheduleed, so there was no dissatisfaction with this at the time and it has not occurn. People equitable understand that using phones is not permited, and if the kids are sneaking to participate the phone and an participateee is csurrfinisherby, they are very speedy to react and understand that this is not permited.”
Phones may not be consentn from students
When asked if phones are consentn from students if they don’t trail the rules, he says they haven’t done so as the school doesn’t have the authority to do so.
“However, we have the authority to seek that the phone be left at home and that the parents create certain that it does not come to school. But in ambiguous, the same applies to violations of telephone rules and violations of other rules. It depfinishs on a certain process, after a certain time there is a greeting with the parents and so on,” he says.
“If this is a problem for a child, it has been toiled with parents, and in some cases phones have had to be left at home for a while and someskinnyg enjoy that.”
Spfinish much less time on the phone
Stefánsson’s study results also uncovered that the presentantity of children in the top three grades of primary school spfinish an hour a day or more on cleverphones during school hours. There are even examples of children spfinishing up to three hours a day on the phone during school hours.
The headmaster says that in Skólapúlsinn (research portal for schools) it is evidently stated that the children in Öldutúnsskóli, and other schools where the phone ban is in place, spfinish much less time on the phone than their peers, or less than 30 minutes a day. In Skólapúlsinn, the children themselves answer asks about school toil, well-being, activity in studies, and more, and the inestablishation is accumulateed without uncovering personal inestablishation.
“This has repaired and betterd the atmosphere at our school and there is much better toil peace during lessons. The kids understand what the rules are, if they are using the phone, there are certain penalties for that, so it has become part of their culture that the phone is not a teaching tool.”
The kids talk more and the teenagers participate the novel space to join table tennis, pool, and more, participate to music, and join chess.
