How much technology is too much technology? Educationists and experts say that it is when a kindergarten or primary school student starts asking their teachers to give them mobile phones to play.
Many schools across the city have observed that in the two years since the pandemic, technological dependency or preference among children have increased drastically. A pre-school staffer recently noted on social media that students were often playing with their pencil kits or dusters in classrooms pretending that they were their phones.
While most schools have a strict, no phone/gadget policy at school, they said that not much could be done when the parents themselves start using phones as ways to pacify their children. “There have been a few cases where younger children have asked for a particular gadget. We discourage the use of any kind of gadgets in schools. Even the LED panels in classrooms are completely operated by the teachers,” said Sunil Fernandes S. J., principal, St. Joseph’s Boys High School.
