PODCAST: When cell phones are locked up at college


This originally aired on The Bell’s Miseducation podcast on June 12.

When I was in seventh quality, something improved in my university. The administration at the Bronx Academy of Letters was utilizing a peculiar new plan known as “Yondr.” Have not heard of it? Neither experienced I.

Yondr is a organization that helps make lockable pouches for smartphones to build “phone-free spaces for artists, educators, companies, and people.” The thought is that it aids with college student learning by eliminating distractions from the classroom.

“We experienced identified that learners possessing mobile phones was interfering with college student learning.” — Amy Schless, principal of Bronx Academy of Letters

As you might expect, pupils had some issues about the new policy, numerous of which I was thinking myself: Is the Yondr phone coverage underestimating student maturity? How is the coverage influencing scholar-instructor associations?

To get some responses, I chat to lecturers, my principal, pupils who have expertise with Yondr and even associates from the business. Listen to this episode to for an within appear at the effects of restrictive mobile phone guidelines on universities like mine.

Zainab Kuta reported this tale for The Bell’s Miseducation podcast as a junior at the Bronx Academy of Letters.



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