Researchers believe that the students, especially younger ones, may have turned to more disruptive behavior when they no longer had access to their phones.
Yeah, no shit? Phones tend to serve as a distraction that kills boredom; disruptive behavior is frequently (maybe usually) the result of boredom.
“One conjecture is that this resembles, to some degree, withdrawal symptoms,” he said. “Students are unhappy and disruptive the moment their phones are taken away.”
They’re understandably bored and then, understandably, try to kill their boredom in other, more disruptive ways. I for one very much prefer students being on their phones (or other devices) to beating each other up, damaging property, or insulting each other in psychologically damaging ways out of boredom! No idea what about this is supposed to resemble withdrawal symptoms.
I drink heavily because I’m bored. When I don’t drink, I become an aggravated asshole, and some people call it withdrawal. My best option in this situation is clearly to drink more, not investigate the deeper reasons for my behaviour, and do nothing to better my own mental and physical state.
Kids weren’t damaging property and starting fight clubs as often as you seem to think before phones came along.
Kids should be learning how to regulate their emotions, but phones are easy.
Alcohol damages the body, phones definitely don’t do that.
I remember being a child and early teenager before anyone I knew had mobile Internet. Many of us engaged in highly disruptive behavior, including behavior harmful to others, when bored.
Yeah, no shit? Phones tend to serve as a distraction that kills boredom; disruptive behavior is frequently (maybe usually) the result of boredom.
They’re understandably bored and then, understandably, try to kill their boredom in other, more disruptive ways. I for one very much prefer students being on their phones (or other devices) to beating each other up, damaging property, or insulting each other in psychologically damaging ways out of boredom! No idea what about this is supposed to resemble withdrawal symptoms.
I drink heavily because I’m bored. When I don’t drink, I become an aggravated asshole, and some people call it withdrawal. My best option in this situation is clearly to drink more, not investigate the deeper reasons for my behaviour, and do nothing to better my own mental and physical state.
Kids weren’t damaging property and starting fight clubs as often as you seem to think before phones came along.
Kids should be learning how to regulate their emotions, but phones are easy.
Alcohol damages the body, phones definitely don’t do that.
I remember being a child and early teenager before anyone I knew had mobile Internet. Many of us engaged in highly disruptive behavior, including behavior harmful to others, when bored.