{"id":69874,"date":"2018-04-04T12:19:24","date_gmt":"2018-04-04T16:19:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=69874"},"modified":"2018-04-04T07:29:23","modified_gmt":"2018-04-04T11:29:23","slug":"wbur-chris-madson-buzz-beep-chirp-phones-are-an-epidemic-in-our-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=69874","title":{"rendered":"(WBUR) Chris Madson&#8211;Buzz, Beep, Chirp: Phones Are An Epidemic In Our Schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently I asked a hardworking, though often distracted, high school student named Amina how many text messages she received that day during school.<\/p>\n<p>Her answer? 106.<\/p>\n<p>Each text received a response. Two-hundred and twelve tiny messages read and felt, or composed and sent. Links clicked; short videos watched. The perfect song found. Snapchat streaks edited and shared.<\/p>\n<p>Assuming 10 to 15 seconds are lost with each text, Amina skips school for about 45 minutes \u2014 roughly the equivalent of one class period \u2014 each day without ever leaving her seat.<\/p>\n<p>Amina is in the majority. And the numbers are shocking.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wbur.org\/cognoscenti\/2018\/04\/03\/cell-phones-schools-chris-madson\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&quot;Throughout each class I teach, phones are nearly continuously beeping, flashing and vibrating.&quot; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/cy0YrLQlNd\">https:\/\/t.co\/cy0YrLQlNd<\/a>  cc: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jean_twenge?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@jean_twenge<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Cognoscenti (@cogwbur) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cogwbur\/status\/981261054004092929?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 3, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently I asked a hardworking, though often distracted, high school student named Amina how many text messages she received that day during school. Her answer? 106. Each text received a response. Two-hundred and twelve tiny messages read and felt, or<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=69874\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175,101,111,168,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropology","category-children","category-education","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-science-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69874"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69876,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69874\/revisions\/69876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}