{"id":50898,"date":"2020-01-30T12:46:37","date_gmt":"2020-01-30T20:46:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/world.edu\/?p=50898"},"modified":"2020-01-30T12:46:37","modified_gmt":"2020-01-30T20:46:37","slug":"teachers-less-likely-to-take-phones-away-from-white-privileged-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/world.edu\/teachers-less-likely-to-take-phones-away-from-white-privileged-children\/","title":{"rendered":"Teachers less likely to take phones away from white, privileged children"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"
\nFor many children today, before they even start school they are already digitally literate. They know how to use a phone, make videos and take photographs. This is to be welcomed given\u00a0government research<\/a>\u00a0has found that 82% of all advertised openings require some level of digital skills.<\/p>\n

But our\u00a0new research<\/a>\u00a0with schools in the US and France shows that teachers perceive the benefits and harms of tech use for students differently depending on the student\u2019s race, social class and disability status.<\/p>\n

We found that teachers are more likely to see technology use by marginalised students as \u201cmessing around\u201d and unhelpful to learning, but when it comes to their more privileged peers, teachers are more likely to see the benefits.<\/p>\n

Tech at school<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Our research looked at the day-to-day uses of technology in two countries and 12 schools. We investigated tech use in three US middle schools with different student demographics. We also collaborated with a French education service provider for blind children and nine of the primary, middle and high schools it works with in France.<\/p>\n

In the US, in a predominantly white, private school, we found that educational technologies were not only welcomed, but nearly all uses of technology by students (including video games) were treated by the school as potentially useful for education. Social media, often vilified elsewhere, was seen as just another part of a college application: used to showcase dedication in areas such as sports or photography.<\/p>\n

But in other middle schools \u2013 including one with mostly working-class students of Latin American origin or descent and another that had mostly middle-class, Asian American students \u2013 social media was perceived as irrelevant and, at times, even threatening to learning. Teachers at these schools felt students had enough to do learning the basics of programming and office software.<\/p>\n

Excluding disabled students<\/strong><\/h4>\n

France recently became the first country to impose a so-called\u00a0\u201cban\u201d on smartphones at school<\/a>. The new law enables schools\u00a0to write their own smartphone policies<\/a>. This includes allowing smartphones for learning purposes or in certain areas of schools and banning them in others.<\/p>\n

In France, we found that legitimate phone use in the classroom was in many instances now also forbidden. And visually impaired middle- and high-school students, who increasingly rely on their smartphones to be able to participate in school life and learning activities, found themselves unable to do so.<\/p>\n

This adds to existing forms of discrimination, such as the widespread practice to sit these students apart from their peers, because of concerns that using a computer may\u00a0impair the learning of nearby students<\/a>.<\/p>\n

And in this sense, our findings show that if strategies to discipline smartphone use in schools are not carefully considered and implemented, they may simply reproduce inequality or even create new divides. This is why it\u2019s important this phenomenon is looked at more broadly, in a larger number of schools and countries.<\/p>\n

Widening tech access<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Libraries and museums, often show how tech can be\u00a0playfully and responsibly embedded in young people\u2019s lives<\/a>. Indeed, Catherine Cormier, programme manager at The Mix at\u00a0San Francisco Public Library<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 a free space and digital media lab for teens to \u201cconnect, explore, learn and hang out<\/a>\u201d \u2013 explains how equal access to technological resources for all teens can help to bridge the social divide in tech:<\/p>\n

Teens have little confidence that they can do something adults will find worthwhile with technologies. We try to meet them where they are \u2013 often [with] video games. Mostly I try to establish boundaries [or structures rather than] barriers \u2013 as rigid barriers always exclude kids who need us.<\/em><\/p>\n

This is important because more and more jobs require applicants to have\u00a0digital skills<\/a>. Indeed, a\u00a0study by the charity Nesta<\/a>\u00a0found that not all digital skills will be equally valuable in the future and the most beneficial ones will involve creativity \u2013 such as animation skills, multimedia production and design in engineering.<\/p>\n

So instead of forbidding technology use, all young people should be supported in their explorations. And this begins with showing interest and providing space for students\u2019 current digital practices, be they video games, social media, video calls or vlogging.<\/p>\n

Author Bio: <\/strong>Emeline Brul\u00e9 is a Lecturer in Product Design at the University of Sussex and Matt Rafalow is a Sociologist and Visiting Scholar at the University of California, Berkeley<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For many children today, before they even start school they are already digitally literate. They know how to use a phone, make videos and take photographs. This is to be welcomed given\u00a0government research\u00a0has found that 82% of all advertised openings require some level of digital skills. But our\u00a0new research\u00a0with schools in the US and France […]\n… learn more→<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":50899,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15645],"tags":[350689],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-50898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","tag-digital-literacy"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nTeachers less likely to take phones away from white, privileged children - World leading higher education information and services<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/world.edu\/teachers-less-likely-to-take-phones-away-from-white-privileged-children\/\" class=\"yoast-seo-meta-tag\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" class=\"yoast-seo-meta-tag\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" class=\"yoast-seo-meta-tag\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Teachers less likely to take phones away from white, privileged children - World leading higher education information and services\" class=\"yoast-seo-meta-tag\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"For many children today, before they even start school they are already digitally literate. They know how to use a phone, make videos and take photographs. This is to be welcomed given\u00a0government research\u00a0has found that 82% of all advertised openings require some level of digital skills. But our\u00a0new research\u00a0with schools in the US and France […]\" class=\"yoast-seo-meta-tag\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/world.edu\/teachers-less-likely-to-take-phones-away-from-white-privileged-children\/\" class=\"yoast-seo-meta-tag\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"World leading higher education information and services\" class=\"yoast-seo-meta-tag\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-01-30T20:46:37+00:00\" class=\"yoast-seo-meta-tag\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/world.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Students-with-phones.jpg\" class=\"yoast-seo-meta-tag\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"680\" class=\"yoast-seo-meta-tag\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"454\" class=\"yoast-seo-meta-tag\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" class=\"yoast-seo-meta-tag\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Kevin\" class=\"yoast-seo-meta-tag\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" class=\"yoast-seo-meta-tag\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Kevin\" class=\"yoast-seo-meta-tag\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" class=\"yoast-seo-meta-tag\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"4 minutes\" class=\"yoast-seo-meta-tag\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/world.edu\\\/teachers-less-likely-to-take-phones-away-from-white-privileged-children\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/world.edu\\\/teachers-less-likely-to-take-phones-away-from-white-privileged-children\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Kevin\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/world.edu\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/42c1c1d5ff7ffbdf0bd50ed94c6ae6ee\"},\"headline\":\"Teachers less likely to take phones away from white, privileged children\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-01-30T20:46:37+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/world.edu\\\/teachers-less-likely-to-take-phones-away-from-white-privileged-children\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":729,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/world.edu\\\/teachers-less-likely-to-take-phones-away-from-white-privileged-children\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/world.edu\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2020\\\/01\\\/Students-with-phones.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"digital literacy\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Education\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/world.edu\\\/teachers-less-likely-to-take-phones-away-from-white-privileged-children\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/world.edu\\\/teachers-less-likely-to-take-phones-away-from-white-privileged-children\\\/\",\"name\":\"Teachers less likely to take phones away from white, privileged children - World leading higher education information and services\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/world.edu\\\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/world.edu\\\/teachers-less-likely-to-take-phones-away-from-white-privileged-children\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/world.edu\\\/teachers-less-likely-to-take-phones-away-from-white-privileged-children\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/world.edu\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2020\\\/01\\\/Students-with-phones.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-01-30T20:46:37+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/world.edu\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/42c1c1d5ff7ffbdf0bd50ed94c6ae6ee\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/world.edu\\\/teachers-less-likely-to-take-phones-away-from-white-privileged-children\\\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/world.edu\\\/teachers-less-likely-to-take-phones-away-from-white-privileged-children\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/world.edu\\\/teachers-less-likely-to-take-phones-away-from-white-privileged-children\\\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/world.edu\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2020\\\/01\\\/Students-with-phones.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/world.edu\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2020\\\/01\\\/Students-with-phones.jpg\",\"width\":680,\"height\":454},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/world.edu\\\/teachers-less-likely-to-take-phones-away-from-white-privileged-children\\\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/world.edu\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Teachers less likely to take phones away from white, privileged children\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/world.edu\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/world.edu\\\/\",\"name\":\"World leading higher education information and services\",\"description\":\"Global Higher Education Jobs, University jobs, Lecturer & tenure jobs.\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/world.edu\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/world.edu\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/42c1c1d5ff7ffbdf0bd50ed94c6ae6ee\",\"name\":\"Kevin\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/1e8d491a5f9b9bf3db67c9e46abbba7bb06b26b458bd5025c55e0a4b9b60ea8a?s=96&d=mm&r=g8ba4c352a279c450aa9435d770c1ebf4\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/1e8d491a5f9b9bf3db67c9e46abbba7bb06b26b458bd5025c55e0a4b9b60ea8a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/1e8d491a5f9b9bf3db67c9e46abbba7bb06b26b458bd5025c55e0a4b9b60ea8a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Kevin\"},\"description\":\"Kevin is founder of the world.edu project. The past 28 years have been involved in publishing to the education sector in print and the internet. Kevin has a degree in Education and has a many years experience in developing companies and projects.\",\"sameAs\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/world.edu\"],\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/world.edu\\\/author\\\/kevin\\\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Teachers less likely to take phones away from white, privileged children - World leading higher education information and services","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/world.edu\/teachers-less-likely-to-take-phones-away-from-white-privileged-children\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Teachers less likely to take phones away from white, privileged children - World leading higher education information and services","og_description":"For many children today, before they even start school they are already digitally literate. They know how to use a phone, make videos and take photographs. This is to be welcomed given\u00a0government research\u00a0has found that 82% of all advertised openings require some level of digital skills. But our\u00a0new research\u00a0with schools in the US and France […]","og_url":"https:\/\/world.edu\/teachers-less-likely-to-take-phones-away-from-white-privileged-children\/","og_site_name":"World leading higher education information and services","article_published_time":"2020-01-30T20:46:37+00:00","og_image":[{"width":680,"height":454,"url":"https:\/\/world.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Students-with-phones.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Kevin","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Kevin","Est. reading time":"4 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/world.edu\/teachers-less-likely-to-take-phones-away-from-white-privileged-children\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/world.edu\/teachers-less-likely-to-take-phones-away-from-white-privileged-children\/"},"author":{"name":"Kevin","@id":"https:\/\/world.edu\/#\/schema\/person\/42c1c1d5ff7ffbdf0bd50ed94c6ae6ee"},"headline":"Teachers less likely to take phones away from white, privileged children","datePublished":"2020-01-30T20:46:37+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/world.edu\/teachers-less-likely-to-take-phones-away-from-white-privileged-children\/"},"wordCount":729,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/world.edu\/teachers-less-likely-to-take-phones-away-from-white-privileged-children\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/world.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Students-with-phones.jpg","keywords":["digital literacy"],"articleSection":["Education"],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/world.edu\/teachers-less-likely-to-take-phones-away-from-white-privileged-children\/","url":"https:\/\/world.edu\/teachers-less-likely-to-take-phones-away-from-white-privileged-children\/","name":"Teachers less likely to take phones away from white, privileged children - World leading higher education information and services","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/world.edu\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/world.edu\/teachers-less-likely-to-take-phones-away-from-white-privileged-children\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/world.edu\/teachers-less-likely-to-take-phones-away-from-white-privileged-children\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/world.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Students-with-phones.jpg","datePublished":"2020-01-30T20:46:37+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/world.edu\/#\/schema\/person\/42c1c1d5ff7ffbdf0bd50ed94c6ae6ee"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/world.edu\/teachers-less-likely-to-take-phones-away-from-white-privileged-children\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/world.edu\/teachers-less-likely-to-take-phones-away-from-white-privileged-children\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/world.edu\/teachers-less-likely-to-take-phones-away-from-white-privileged-children\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/world.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Students-with-phones.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/world.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Students-with-phones.jpg","width":680,"height":454},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/world.edu\/teachers-less-likely-to-take-phones-away-from-white-privileged-children\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/world.edu\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Teachers less likely to take phones away from white, privileged children"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/world.edu\/#website","url":"https:\/\/world.edu\/","name":"World leading higher education information and services","description":"Global Higher Education Jobs, University jobs, Lecturer & tenure jobs.","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/world.edu\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/world.edu\/#\/schema\/person\/42c1c1d5ff7ffbdf0bd50ed94c6ae6ee","name":"Kevin","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/1e8d491a5f9b9bf3db67c9e46abbba7bb06b26b458bd5025c55e0a4b9b60ea8a?s=96&d=mm&r=g8ba4c352a279c450aa9435d770c1ebf4","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/1e8d491a5f9b9bf3db67c9e46abbba7bb06b26b458bd5025c55e0a4b9b60ea8a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/1e8d491a5f9b9bf3db67c9e46abbba7bb06b26b458bd5025c55e0a4b9b60ea8a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Kevin"},"description":"Kevin is founder of the world.edu project. The past 28 years have been involved in publishing to the education sector in print and the internet. Kevin has a degree in Education and has a many years experience in developing companies and projects.","sameAs":["https:\/\/world.edu"],"url":"https:\/\/world.edu\/author\/kevin\/"}]}},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/world.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/world.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/world.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/world.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/world.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/world.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50898\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/world.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/world.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/world.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/world.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50898"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/world.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=50898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}