There’s a familiar scene in many homes. A student sits at a desk with a laptop open, books stacked nearby, tabs multiplying quietly at the top of the screen. One tab holds an online lecture, another a ...

States including Michigan and Colorado are restricting the ways students can use digital devices in school. Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images The scale of the issue is significant. According to a 2023 ...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — In California, a high school teacher complains that students watch Netflix on their phones during class. In Maryland, a chemistry teacher says students use gambling apps to place ...

Ask middle and high school STEM teachers what the biggest barrier is to students learning in their classes, and there’s a good chance the answer will be social media and online gaming. Teachers ranked ...

Michigan is banning smartphones during class time in public schools, starting this fall ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The new school year begins for Henry County students on Thursday, and this year, school officials are focusing on distraction-free ...

A bill has been introduced in the Georgia House that would extend the current cellphone ban in schools to high schools. Here's what we know.

Abduljaleel Shittu, a professor of Information Technology at Fountain University, Osogbo, Osun State, has expressed concern over the distracting influence of Information Communication Technology (ICT) ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) The scale of the issue is significant. According to a 2023 report from Common Sense ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Kui Xie, University of Missouri-Columbia and Florence Martin, North Carolina State ...