No smartphones in schools? hotel Nowacka underestimates the problem
date:15 April 2025 Editor: Anna
Minister of Education Barbara Nowacka believes that in Polish education she does not request a strategy solution to the problem of smartphones in schools. In her assessment, it is adequate to have the limitations that schools, parents and students decide together. At the same time, the statutory ban on smartphones in schools has already introduced 15 EU countries.
Experts have been beating the alarm for years due to the fresh kind of addiction that even a fewer years of age notices. Smartphones act on the child's brain like hard drugs, depending on pleasant stimuli and injections, including dopamine, a hormone liable for the sense of fulfillment and reward. The strength of stimuli combined with the inactive undeveloped decision center in the child's head makes children peculiarly susceptible to digital content.
A kid exposed to long-term contact with a smartphone (short movie rolls in social media, app games, sexual and pornographic content) has crucial deficiencies in concentration, can no longer focus on 1 task (short attention span), has problems with remembering and logical thinking. He responds to deficiency of smartphones with aggression, and frequently with self-inflicted injuries. In utmost cases, there may be irreversible harm to brain cognitive mechanisms.
Simon Holovnia on Radio Zet said that as president he would ban smartphones in schools. The words of Deputy talker of the Sejm were commented by Barbara Nowack, the MEN chief. She stressed that schools, parents and students jointly decide on specified restrictions and that "this model works".
According to the diary of Law Gazette, the Ministry of Education does not presently carry out legislative work on the ban on smartphones at school, but the press office reports that the ministry "currently monitors and analyses" solutions utilized in another EU countries.
The Digital Poland Foundation recalls that most EU countries already have central regulations on the usage of smartphones in educational institutions. 15 Community countries have already introduced full restrictions on the usage of smartphones in schools, 5 are working on regulations, and eight, including Poland, leave the decision to schools.
Source: PCh24.pl
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