cellphones

As tablets and laptops have become common classroom tools, schools continue to wrestle with another device: the cell phone.

The nation’s 250th anniversary this summer invited us to reflect on how much has changed and to look ahead at the choices shaping our future. That forward-looking perspective feels especially important as emerging technologies are rapidly reshaping h...

New findings from the first national study of school cell phone policies finds that as bell-to-bell phone bans expand across the country, many educators report noticeable changes in how students interact with one another and decreased phone usage in ...

Competing initiatives to promote AI literacy, at the same time as efforts to limit student screen time, can co-exist, according to Brian Jacob.

RESEARCH TO WATCH WHAT’S THE STUDY: A multidisciplinary team of University of Michigan researchers has received a grant from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to conduct interviews and surveys to understand how school cell phone policies acr...

Governor Gretchen Whitmer’s call for new cell phone restrictions in schools led Michigan legislators to reintroduce House Bill 4141.  In a new opinion piece for Bridge Michigan, Ford School Professor Brian Jacob and Justin E Heinze, associate profess...