More than one in three students in the 6th and 8th grades experience being distracted by smartphones or computers in class.
This is shown by figures from the so-called primary school panel, which was set up by the Ministry of Children and Education, and according to the minister in the area, Mattias Tesfaye (S), these are “truly alarming figures”.
– The school should not be an extension of the teenage room, he says in a press release from the ministry.
He encourages people to leave the computer in their bags and to lock their mobiles in both lessons and recess.
– And the internet should be limited by a firewall that shuts down online games, shopping, TikTok and everything else that distracts and prevents immersion, he says in the press release.
Tesfaye points out that the ministry issued new screen regulations to schools before the summer holidays. And they have largely followed them. 84 percent of schools respond that they have introduced guidelines for the use of smartphones.
Nevertheless, the students are thus disturbed.
Tesfaye also states that he has asked for another investigation into the digital disturbances. It must be completed at the end of the current school year.
The primary school panel consists of 237 primary schools which take part in a survey in which managers, teachers, pedagogues and pupils at selected public schools and independent primary schools answer a series of questions.
In the current study, they also answered how often digital devices are used for task solving. Here, 43 percent of the students answer that they use digital devices in class for more than three hours during a normal school day.
In addition, almost half of the teachers feel that the selection of analogue teaching aids is not sufficient.
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Source: www.kristeligt-dagblad.dk
