"Nearly two dozen Adelphi University students made it a full week without their cell phones!
As CBS2 first told you last week, it was part of a college course intended to break the powerful addiction of smartphones." …
https://newyork.cbslocal.com/2019/11/14/students-ditch-phone-changed-lives/
My daughter attended a semester school that had a no electronics policy for the first two weeks. I get the concept in both cases, and obviously the kids all survived, but I wouldn’t say my daughter gained anything from it that would cause her to ditch her phone. She’s at college now and there are no landlines anywhere. We communicate often, and a no-cell policy would just artificially cut her off from family and friends. She just judiciously uses do not disturb when she is sleeping and studying/doing homework- problems solved.
My cousin did the same. Missed news his mother hospitalized and call for help from sister. Lost out on a job call. Stupid idea these days.
I love it. It sounds like a great way to reduce the addiction to mobile technology
As a child, I remember the rare family, here and there, that either had no televisions at home or severely restricted television use. 99% of my peers, peers’ families, and anyone I knew felt it was ridiculous to drastically limit or eliminate the use of television. Flash forward to today, and almost everyone agrees that unlimited screen time is a bad idea, especially for children.
Two weeks without cell phones seems like a perfect compromise. It’s just long enough to allow an understanding of how constant connection affects human lives. Just long enough to start to figure out other ways to use the mind and time.
Who knows, maybe a few students will realize they (not necessarily every student, but those four or five) have been using their cell phones beyond the point of addiction … and maybe this exercise will lead to them trying to correct this over reliance.