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What happens when a school bans smartphones? A complete transformation | US education | The Guardian (www.theguardian.com)

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What happens when a school bans smartphones? A complete transformation | US education | The Guardian::Teachers say mobile phones make their lives a living hell – so one Massachusetts school barred them

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[–] super_user_do@feddit.it 53 points 10 months ago (4 children)

Today my computer science teacher asked a friend of mine to show his screentime statistics as a joke. Bro literally spent an average of +11h A DAY on his phone...

[–] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 36 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Smartphones and apps are scientifically designed to be addictive. The same techniques that make people spend hours at slot machines goes into modern games.

[–] lolcatnip@reddthat.com 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Are you saying the app I'm using to browse Lemmy is scientifically designed to be addictive?

[–] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 4 points 10 months ago

I used to work in public health. One of the things they teach is that only the addict can decide if they are addicted. No one improves until they admit that they are powerless to stop on their own.

https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/323468

[–] ABCDE@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I'm paranoid about checking mine... Plus my Deck and computer (for work). It's probably more than your mate.

[–] dustyData@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

I configure mine to show it to me weekly. It helps me keep tabs on a low social media diet. I've been reading, playing music and watching movies more frequently thanks to that.

[–] Pika@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

I was curious so I looked at mine, it isn't accurate, it says 10 hours 22 minutes average, but it says 7 of that is gaming, there's no way i spend 7 hours of gaming, maybe an hour max a day because the only game I play is ants fallen kingdom which doesn't require much active tike, just enough time to do dailies so 45 mins? , I'm on social media a hell of a lot more then gaming but my social is only at roughly 2 hours. I don't think you can rely on it lol

[–] pythonoob@programming.dev 2 points 10 months ago

Uh huh...

[–] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 10 months ago

Jesus. I’m at just above two hours for my weekly average. It used to be 8-10 hours daily when I had a job where I had to leave my house, go into an office, and not do any work. Now that I do the same thing but from home, I don’t need to use my phone as much.