{"id":20427,"date":"2025-10-13T05:37:33","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T03:37:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/13\/two-years-after-school-phone-bans-were-implemented-in-australia-what-has-changed\/"},"modified":"2025-10-13T05:37:33","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T03:37:33","slug":"two-years-after-school-phone-bans-were-implemented-in-australia-what-has-changed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/13\/two-years-after-school-phone-bans-were-implemented-in-australia-what-has-changed\/","title":{"rendered":"Two years after school phone bans were implemented in Australia, what has changed?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Phone bans are now well-established in many Australian primary and secondary schools. Have they made a difference?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Get our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/email-newsletters?CMP=cvau_sfl\">breaking news email<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/app.adjust.com\/w4u7jx3\">free app<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/series\/full-story?CMP=cvau_sfl\">daily news podcast<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>When Australian Christian College, a high school in the Melbourne outer suburb of Casey, implemented a phone ban on its campus, there were multiple reasons for the crackdown. Peer conflicts between students were escalating online, students were struggling to focus and teachers observed \u201cnotification-driven code-switching\u201d in their students.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen a phone is within reach, a student\u2019s mind is only ever half in the room,\u201d the school\u2019s principal, Caleb Peterson, says. \u201cWe wanted their whole attention back.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/2025\/oct\/13\/two-years-after-school-phone-bans-were-implemented-in-australia-whats-changed-the-impacts-were-clear\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/be645ca6e8e93a30ae127cf53605261789e1b768\/339_0_4027_3222\/master\/4027.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=f629b178a2b7eca512c6eb2eacc010d8\" title=\"Two years after school phone bans were implemented in Australia, what has changed?\" \/>Phone bans are now well-established in many Australian primary and secondary schools. Have they made a difference?<br \/>\nGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast<br \/>\nWhen Australian Christian College, a high school in the Melbourne outer suburb of Casey, implemented a phone ban on its campus, there were multiple reasons for the crackdown. Peer conflicts between students were escalating online, students were struggling to focus and teachers observed \u201cnotification-driven code-switching\u201d in their students.<br \/>\n\u201cWhen a phone is within reach, a student\u2019s mind is only ever half in the room,\u201d the school\u2019s principal, Caleb Peterson, says. \u201cWe wanted their whole attention back.\u201d Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Phone bans are now well-established in many Australian primary and secondary schools. Have they made a difference? Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast When Australian Christian College, a high school in the Melbourne outer suburb of Casey, implemented a phone ban on its campus, there were multiple reasons for the &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/13\/two-years-after-school-phone-bans-were-implemented-in-australia-what-has-changed\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Two years after school phone bans were implemented in Australia, what has changed?<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":20428,"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\/20427"}],"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=20427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20427\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}