Photo caption: Students put their phones in a "phone storage bag" before class.
Image caption: Classroom without mobile phones.
Oriental Network November 19 news: According to the "Youth Daily" report, "the most distant distance in the world is that the teacher is lecturing, and the student is looking at the mobile phone." A ridiculous sentence vividly expressed the embarrassment of the current classroom. The reporter's investigation found that in order to strictly enforce classroom discipline, the war between colleges and universities and mobile phones has become more and more "escalated": mobile phone storage bags, deduction of points for violators, and disconnection of WiFi have been launched. Behind the good intentions is nothing more than the hope of using a "classroom defense war" to close the hearts of students who have become increasingly scattered by mobile phones.
Before the class, put away the mobile phone and put it in the "storage bag"
With the popularity of smart phones, whether in the subway, bus or classroom, everywhere you look, you can see the huge "family" of "low-headed people". For college students, it is not strange to play with their mobile phones in class, miss valuable learning opportunities, and do not respect teachers enough. This scene also made the teacher angry, which led to the recent sociology teacher of Zhejiang Media College smashing the iPhones of three students who did not listen carefully.
Recently, the School of Arts of East China University of Science and Technology has made a new move to equip the classroom with a "mobile phone storage bag", before each class, students put the mobile phone into the storage bag, and then get the mobile phone back after class.
The reporter learned that in fact, this move was launched after this year's National Day holiday. Nowadays, in the classroom of students at the Fengxian Campus of the School of Arts of East China University of Science and Technology, "mobile phone storage bags" have become "standard". Each storage bag has 36 small pockets with the student's name and student number attached to each. Before the class, students need to turn the phone to off or mute mode, put it in their corresponding small pocket, and cannot retrieve the phone until after class.
According to Zheng Dong, deputy secretary of the party general branch of the art college, in recent years, teachers have generally felt that there are more and more "low-headed people" in the process of lecturing, and at a glance, often one-third of the students are looking down at the same time brushing their mobile phones, and even more than a class has not looked up. In addition to the theory classes, many students even have their hands on the experimental classes that require high participation. Since September this year, the faculty of the college has conducted a preliminary investigation on the implementation of this practice, and after the National Day holiday, it was officially implemented in the professional classes of all 14 classes in Fengxian Campus. The college hopes that while storing mobile phones in the classroom, it will also close the hearts of students who are increasingly scattered because of mobile phones.
After two months of trial, students felt focused
It is understood that for this practice, many students were initially quite disgusted, feeling that personal freedom was restricted, and the classroom needed to use this external force to defeat the mobile phone, which was undoubtedly the failure of the classroom itself. However, now, after nearly two months of trial storage of classroom mobile phones, most students have begun to gradually feel the benefits of this kind of classroom cleanliness and concentration that is not disturbed by the outside world.
"There is no interference from fragmented information, and the learning efficiency is much higher." Many students said so. However, some people have also suggested that some people who are used to playing mobile phones simply sleep on their stomachs or do other things, and there are always various reasons for not listening to lectures. In the meantime, some students pointed out that the mobile phone is not just for brushing WeChat and QQ, and using the camera function of the mobile phone to take a PPT first is definitely a good way to learn with half the effort. Now that you don't have a mobile phone, do you have to consider bringing a camera?
Teachers, on the other hand, are generally welcoming. Teacher Zhou Meiyu said: "The class effect is good, and I am more energetic to give the students a lesson." According to reports, at present, the school's student work department is more in agreement with this practice of the college, and at the end of this semester, the college will conduct research on this practice, listen to the opinions of all parties, and then study whether it will be promoted at a wider level.
[Other Tactics]
Solution 1: Cut off wiFi, stop thinking
Shanghai Maritime University found at a teaching quality inspection symposium that students' "online desertion" affects the effectiveness of lectures and has become a hot topic among teachers. The school has made a decision after thorough investigation and research for a serious learning style - today, the teaching area provides a network signal at different times, that is, the class is "disconnected", but after dinner, students come to the classroom to study for themselves, or all day on Saturdays and Sundays, and the wireless network signal can still be used.
Coincidentally, the School of Nursing of Fudan University, located on Fenglin Road, has also applied to the School Information Office to turn off the wireless network signal between 8 a.m. and 18 p.m., hoping to help students concentrate more in the classroom, which is also a responsible attitude of the school to students.
Students reflected that in the past, the campus wireless network did not use traffic, the class screen brushing was not painful, once the campus wireless network was turned off, it was equivalent to setting up new obstacles for their own Internet access, considering that they had to spend money to buy traffic, natural mobile phones also saw less.
Solution 2: Deduct your points, no negotiable
According to students of East China Normal University, when they take international business law classes, teachers will include whether students play mobile phones in class in the assessment of their usual grades, and once they find that students play mobile phones in class, they will deduct their corresponding usual scores. If a student is caught more than a few times, they will be disqualified from taking the final exam, which means that the subject is hanging up.
However, students reported that this practice does not completely prevent students from playing mobile phones in class. "Universities are generally big classes, large classrooms with dozens or even hundreds of people, and teachers can't care who plays with mobile phones." This rule is only useful for students in the front row. A classmate commented.
Some students said, "It is useless to threaten us with hanging subjects, and everyone's thoughts are not in the classroom." "Sometimes the courses are so boring that I can't really listen to them, and I don't know what to do except play with my phone." Teachers should find ways to improve the quality of the course, not blindly control us to play mobile phones. ”
Option 3: Purchase machine shielding signals
The Youth League Committee of the College of Animal Science and Technology of Yangzhou University had previously purchased a mobile phone signal jammer at a high price, but some students and netizens questioned: "In case of an emergency, the phone cannot be called, will it be too dangerous?" ”
The Chengdu College of Sichuan Normal University believes that one of the main reasons for the popularity of playing mobile phones in the classroom is the "blindness" of the classroom teachers. If it is found that there are students playing with mobile phones in the classroom and the teacher ignores them, the college will punish the classroom teacher according to the number of people playing with mobile phones and according to the teaching accident.
In april this year, the Graduate Student Association of Nanjing University Business School organized the "Left Hand Wearing a Bracelet, Challenging 21 Days of Class Without a Mobile Phone" activity. Studies have shown that it takes 21 days for a person to develop a basic habit, so the idea of wearing a bracelet "21 days of habit formation" has emerged. After the preliminary solicitation, a total of more than 200 students from UCI had a preliminary experience, and according to the rules of the activity, if the class did not look at the mobile phone at all, the challenge was successful on the same day.
[Expert Opinion]
The "mobile classroom" approach is only primary governance
The occupation of the classroom by mobile phones has become a "worldwide" problem. On Youku, some international students actually took a very popular video of foreign students playing with their mobile phones in class, and the teacher smashed the collected mobile phones with a hammer. Previously, a teacher at Harvard University confiscated students' mobile phones, but they were accused of human rights violations and had no choice but to return them...
Whether it is pushing the mobile phone storage bag to "confiscate" the mobile phone, finding the violator deducting points or cutting off the WiFi, it is the choice made by the school according to their actual situation. This shows that in today's emphasis on the quality of teaching in colleges and universities, there are more explorations to deal with new problems. In this regard, Xiong Bingqi, vice president of the 21st Century Education Research Institute, believes that guiding students to learn self-management, self-restraint and self-planning should be more effective than external requirements and restrictions.
"After many students enter the university, once they lose the environment that is managed and planned, they do not know how to arrange their studies and lives, which is especially obvious among first-year students. For these students, they should not be allowed to return to a managed and constrained environment, but should cultivate a sense of independence and autonomy. In Xiong Bingqi's view, the practice of "mobile phone-free classroom" is only primary governance, and more attention should be paid to the education and guidance of university academic life planning, and the cultivation of students' awareness and ability of self-management will be used for life. From this perspective, the enemy in the classroom is not the mobile phone, but the self.
Zhang Min, a teacher at the School of Economic Law of East China University of Political Science and Law, based on the perspective of the teachers themselves, believes that the teachers of this era need to prepare and attend classes more carefully than in the past, not only understand the theory, but also be able to speak in line with the hearts of the post-95s. At the end of the day, making the classroom more attractive is fundamental.