{"id":12965,"date":"2024-01-17T11:37:55","date_gmt":"2024-01-17T10:37:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/17\/what-happens-when-a-school-bans-smartphones-a-complete-transformation\/"},"modified":"2024-01-17T11:37:55","modified_gmt":"2024-01-17T10:37:55","slug":"what-happens-when-a-school-bans-smartphones-a-complete-transformation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/17\/what-happens-when-a-school-bans-smartphones-a-complete-transformation\/","title":{"rendered":"What happens when a school bans smartphones? A complete transformation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Teachers say mobile phones make their lives a living hell \u2013 so one Massachusetts school barred them <\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/lifeandstyle\/2023\/dec\/14\/sign-up-to-reclaim-your-brain-our-free-email-to-help-you-scroll-less-and-live-more\">Sign up to our free coaching newsletter to help you spend less time on your phone<\/a><\/p>\n<p>When the weather is nice, the Buxton boarding school moves lunch outside. Students, faculty and guests grab their food from the kitchen, and eat together under a white tent that overlooks western Massachusetts\u2019 Berkshire mountains.<\/p>\n<p>As the close of the school year neared last June, talk turned to final assignments (the English class was finishing Moby-Dick) and end-of-year fun (there was a trip planned to a local lake). It was, in most ways, a typical teenage afternoon \u2013 except that no one was on their phones.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/lifeandstyle\/2024\/jan\/17\/cellphone-smartphone-bans-schools\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/4bb779fc4cc4d76c4a528ed91a4051735508b45e\/0_400_6000_3600\/master\/6000.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=9486f42468de737383c3c1706a8cf7d4\" title=\"What happens when a school bans smartphones? A complete transformation\" \/>Teachers say mobile phones make their lives a living hell \u2013 so one Massachusetts school barred them<br \/>\n\u2022 Sign up to our free coaching newsletter to help you spend less time on your phone<br \/>\nWhen the weather is nice, the Buxton boarding school moves lunch outside. Students, faculty and guests grab their food from the kitchen, and eat together under a white tent that overlooks western Massachusetts\u2019 Berkshire mountains.<br \/>\nAs the close of the school year neared last June, talk turned to final assignments (the English class was finishing Moby-Dick) and end-of-year fun (there was a trip planned to a local lake). It was, in most ways, a typical teenage afternoon \u2013 except that no one was on their phones. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Teachers say mobile phones make their lives a living hell \u2013 so one Massachusetts school barred them \u2022 Sign up to our free coaching newsletter to help you spend less time on your phone When the weather is nice, the Buxton boarding school moves lunch outside. Students, faculty and guests grab their food from the &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/17\/what-happens-when-a-school-bans-smartphones-a-complete-transformation\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What happens when a school bans smartphones? A complete transformation<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":12966,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12965"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12965\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}