Being against mobile ban is not a popular stance. 'How can you be too anything, which is harmful? Mobile phones are obviously rubbish, especially for our children. '
Last Thursday I attended DR2s Deadline in a debate with Imran Rashid and Lise Aammitzbøll la Cour on mobile prohibitions and mobile phone free school. the starting point was the chronic by Imran Rashid and Anette Prehn which appeared the same day in Politiken.
People's reactions are mildly been mixed, but I expected nothing less. It was inter alia. commented, I was unrealistic and did not understand, what happens in practice. For some reason it went many ears past, I am a practitioner who lives what I am speaking about.
The topic of mobile ban must and nuance
Well – in a debate, which arouses so many emotions it is surely difficult to hear the whole. Someone must inherently be in the firing line with your mobile phone, and I imagine like. The topic of mobile ban should and must be nuanced. The mobile phone is made public eye and wish to sacrifice on the scaffold in search of 'the eternal reason'. Consensus has been, the mobile phone is the perpetrator.
I would agree, if it were to give a gizmo blame. A dead, mechanically made things. Mobile can not – or will be – guilty of anything, it requires awareness. It requires continuing, what a piece of technology has not.
That it can be added 'personality' and ‘handling’ through software and applications, which adapts to the human user's needs and wants, do not live. It does not consciously or provides the ability to continue well, creating habits and vices.
Therefore neither can nor will I be against mobile phones and any other kind of 'smart technology'.
We acquire a dead gizmo guilt
It is man, that should be the focus here, for it is we who are the only ones with 'guilt', continue and the ability actions. Either as users or producers.
I'm generally hesitant, using the term 'Convenience' In this context. It is not useful, as it often ends in reproaches and prohibition. just the, that flourish at this time.
We must get away from this approach and focus on human interaction with technology. We must realize and recognize the fact, that we have not used the technology just appropriate because we have not known, how this should be done.
we adults – the so-called digital tenants – has taken it to us at lightning speed, at least privately. Nobody could follow, so in the digital and technological developments slipstream happened it, as always happens in uncontrolled / incomprehensible environments. We have in good faith tried to adapt, and now we are faced with the consequences. The train goes too fast, and we have the choice to stop completely at, smash rails or slow down quietly. None of us knew how we would manage train, So what do we?
Mobile Prohibition is a short term strategy
I advokerer for, that we use the method to slow down, for historically flash solutions rarely made any easier. With each ban has come backlash which was not particularly worthwhile or practical. In my view, it is' wetting for, keeping warm 'solution, which provides immediate effect but do not make a difference in length. What do we learn the children by taking the phone away in learning situations, and only give them the return to fun and games?
The short answer is, we simply reinforce the existing trend. We teach them, making mobile toys over, to give them the tools, it also offers. Should we create livsduelige children, which can manage the world they live in and equip them for the future, we must meet them here and now.
Of course we have mobile breaks
I firmly believe, the children to have breaks from your phone. Many of them! It should not be under their pillow at night or bimle in your pocket in teaching. It is not to create insulation in play situations, used to call parents by conflicts in the school or institution.
Children should basically not equipped with smartphones before they are old enough to understand its value, and mobile phones are not necessary for our young children. Going forward, we should all take the responsibility of our children, and let them be channeled quietly into the mobile world.
It starts with the adults
Here and now we must jointly take responsibility and teach them to use gizmo, as they already have. Parents, Educators, teachers and politicians. It starts with us, dear medvoksne, and claims we do not opportunity, I think, that we fail another generation of children. We need to start with the digital upbringing, and it can only go slowly.
Our young people have been left to themselves, and it's clean 'Lord of the Flies' online. We owe it to them to participate, even though we own actions and lack thereof has laid the foundation for their lives already. What we can do for young people is, giving them responsibility, democratic understanding and use our voksenhjerners capacity and experience, to advise and guide.
It is not easy but we must not stop
I myself have been in the classroom. I've even been on the institution floors. I have mentored and taught colleagues and parents, so I know the frustrations and problems relating to their own body.
There is nothing easy about it here, but that should not stop us from doing it! Prohibition may stop the current battle, but the fight does not stop. The time for conscious, digital upbringing has come, and the first step is to take responsibility. Not just here and now but today and every day thereafter.
Links in the text:
- Deadline https://www.dr.dk/tv/se/deadline/deadline-tv/deadline-2017-09-28?queryhash=!%2F00%3A10%3A04
- Feature in politics http://politiken.dk/debat/kroniken/art6132968/Forbyd-mobiltelefoner-i-danske-skoler-ellers-%C3%B8del%C3%A6gger-vi-b%C3%B8rnene
- Alphabølgen podcast episode 3 http://alphabolgen.dk/2017/08/31/bring-your-own-device-alphaboelgen-episode-3-31-8-17/
- Artikel om universe and Fessors Mobiltelefon https://edulab.dk/files/fessornytfebruar/#/14/
- Artikel på Medium for KUBO https://blog.kubo-robot.com/why-eating-virtual-sand-and-being-able-to-learn-from-it-requires-you-the-adult-ba85ee0693fb
- Article in Fessors universe of digital education https://edulab.dk/files/fessornytdecember/#/20/
- Artikel på Medium for KUBO https://blog.kubo-robot.com/give-the-kids-the-gift-of-digital-literacy-990fb12a59ff
"Mobile can not - or will be - guilty of anything, it requires awareness. It requires continuing, what a piece of technology do not have. "
But the creators of both hardware and software have the intent. No smartphone without software full of digital temptations and other social activities away from the school ground. I find it hard to understand the reasoning and your point here?
"I firmly believe, the children to have breaks from your phone. Many of them! It should not be under their pillow at night or bimle in your pocket in teaching. It is not to create insulation in play situations, used to call parents by conflicts in the school or institution. "
So who should handle the above does not happen and how?
"Children should basically not equipped with smartphones before they are old enough to understand its value, and mobile phones are not necessary for our young children. Going forward, we should all take the responsibility of our children, and let them be channeled quietly into the mobile world. "
So what happens when half of parents of children in 3. class give their children cell phones? Who controls them from being channeled quietly into? When should all have a telephone ?
The debate runs the not for children in primary schools do not have to learn to create and make things with technology. On the contrary. But as I understand it, it's about school and teachers could control and decide when it is best to involve technology. I find it hard to understand the reasoning for why the individual student's private smartphone beneficial in the classroom? But if it benefits, are those who do not have a mobile phone so bad asked? If yes, it requires in this case that all students must have a? When to it, cf.. they must sluiced quietly into? Who should govern this? Parents or teachers?
Hi Jakob
Thank you for your comment.
In order to make stop motion, take your first point up can itself find the answer in the section below.
"That it can be added 'personality' and 'action' through software and applications, which adapts to the human user's needs and wants, do not live. It does not consciously or provides the ability to continue well, creating habits and vices. "
"It is man, that should be the focus here, for it is we who are the only ones with 'guilt', continue and the ability actions. Either as users or producers. "
The mobile phone is something, as we fill up with man-made things, and it is the producers we must be critical of. It is them, creating content and distributing it, as we fill the shell with technology.
There is largely lacking in critical thinking and thinking, When it comes to our consumption of apps. A topic, I did not take up here, when there is huge. We must obviously be critical and to better, to opt out. With we, I mean of course the adults, which then continue it for the kids.
The first step towards an improved situation, that we engage us and put us into the apps before our children installs them. And so at all sure, to have attitudes and rules on notifications and the like.
It starts in the homes, and continues in schools and institutions.
Unlike at home, neither teachers or educators to individually handle children's content on the mobile phone. It is definitely not their task.
On the other hand, I think, that individual teachers and educators must choose, how they want to involve mobile phones. Parents must be consulted, but ultimately it is the professionals, which has primary responsibility in each day.
I have no answer to, what to do, When parents choose to give their children expensive technology from earliest childhood. Education is one of the roads, but freedom of choice is indeed a human right in our part of the world.
Fact is, that they do, and that is what we must build on.
Precisely why I think, it is part of our common cultural responsibility, to teach children to use their own cell phone for the common good. That we in plenary using the available technology, so children get good and productive habits with mobile phone.
Every time we choose only to equate it with entertainment and toys, we maintain the trends.
Problematikken med Bring your own device er reel og stor. In my podcast with Uffe Lyngdal Sørensen - Alpha wave - we take the angle up (http://alphabolgen.dk/2017/08/31/bring-your-own-device-alphaboelgen-episode-3-31-8-17/).
There IS no easy solutions here, and I can certainly understand why the ban seems so attractive. Sea 'mobile hotels' in class, let them be in most situations but remember to include them also. It's just important, that we take the position here, and do not go in prohibition 'fashion'. It is not favorable and stimulating.
To reject categorically the technology should possess a design agenda itself, is now fairly bombastic and overrules the postfænomenomogiske approach to technology analysis. It is a læshåndet vissevasning of a rather large branch of scientific work with technology. Fair if the standpoint, but the formulation is emerging as Pere ignorant than a positioning :-/
Referring to Pretskys outdated (and National Romantic) pop idea of 'digital natives’ is a whole rant of misperceptions worthy top.
Technology can usefully be analyzed as having an agenda pgr different affordances (potential trade opportunities) which proposes a device for the user. For the individual it is less relevant when the options were designed and more relevant to 'gizmo’ k holds them interaction.
Whether you can change children's perceptions of a mobile phone from -primært toys for primary tool I'm curious to hear more about, but I granted skeptical from the start.
Ifht 'digital natives’ versus' all immigrants’ then attach the weighting of the two terms up to xenophobia primarily, but is also byggeg on a loose loosely based.
Aarhus University has made some depressing studies on the subject which I clearly recommend.
Hello Monica
Now keep in mind, you write to a practitioner. I do not know what 'postfænomenomogiske approach' or 'pere ignorant' is, and are generally not particularly strong in science jargon. For the same reason allying myself with researchers and scientists, which can translate it into layman's terms. However, it must be said, I have the full support of my approach and content in this article include. Mikala Hansbøl from Metropol.
The concept of 'digital newcomers' used, because it is a good metaphor for, how far most have accessed the technological development. I am well aware of issues with the concept of 'digital natives', and therefore I use it. Read more about my attitude to the concept here https://blog.kubo-robot.com/give-the-kids-the-gift-of-digital-literacy-990fb12a59ff.
I am fully aware of, that behind all design lies intentions and intentions. That is spent hours, months and years, to get it developed to the stage, where it is now. This time is used by people, who created it, and it's also people who attach value and acts accordingly.
The technology remains a must - a 'vessel' - as we put things in. My great appeal with the way the debate currently. runs around the mobile phone is enes, that no one has focused on who, what and why. For instance,. the headmaster not know why she's doing mobile ban. Only afterwards should they try to find the parameters, to assess whether it is successful or not.
We only speak for and against. No nuances. No talk about critical thinking, digital literacy and education. There taken responsibility by, to forbid, and there is a problematic access. Say the least.
I do not know, how much we have time to go for our young and sometimes older children, but I will absolutely do my best, the opportunity is there. Bomba Croatian or ej.