Mobile phones or however you call them (smartphones, cell phones, ec) have become an essential part of most people’s everyday lives, and debates about them in schools - as well as teenagers’ access to social media - are internationally hot topics. BBC team explores different approaches to social media and phone bans around the world and this is an interesting What in the World podcast episode uploaded a few months ago.
BBC journalist Hayley Clarke joined them in the studio to talk through different approaches to social media and phone bans in schools around the world. We also hear from students in France and the current USA about how they would feel about potential bans.
Hannah Ritchie, another BBC journalist, chats to us from Australia, where the government says it will introduce "world-leading" legislation to ban children under 16 from social media.
They are joined from two professors on opposing sides of the debate, and they ask whether the scientific evidence behind the bans is robust.
The video chapters:
- 00:00 Introduction
- 00:50 Screen time challenge
- 03:15 Average screen time statistics
- 04:16 Which countries are banning phones and social media?
- 05:45 Australia banning under-16s from social media
- 07:15 Evidence for smartphones affecting mental health
- 07:50 Modern childhood transformation theory
- 09:42 Other studies into impacts of smartphones
- 10:55 Why some experts think bans won’t work
- 12:38 Cause and effect
- 13:15 US student shares what they think
- 14:30 French students share what they think
- 17:05 What do companies say?
- 17:58 Tips to reduce screen time
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