| Cellphones in classrooms pose challenges for Quebec high schools |
| Posted by: Susan Einhorn |
| Twenty-eight out of 30 Grade 11 students in Quebec schools admit to using a cellphone in class, despite the prohibitions against them. The other two are probably lying. That’s one of the startling results of Thierry Karsenti’s two years of research that Montreal schools should keep in mind as they grapple with how to deal with today’s tobacco: the ubiquitous smartphone. Used in high schools for everything from plagiarizing, selling drugs and bullying to texting and sexting and generally failing classes, Karsenti says fully 50 per cent of high school students have smartphones, while another 35 per cent have regular cellphones. And they’re not turning them off. “It’s a big, big challenge for schools, teachers and parents who don’t know how to deal with them, and no one’s really doing anything about it,” said Karsenti, who holds the Canada Research Chair in Information and Communication Technologies in Education at the Université de Montréal. “And then you have cellphone companies offering unlimited texting for almost nothing. That doesn’t help.” |
| Source: Montreal Gazette (Canada) | Published: September 27th, 2013 |
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