…have and it becomes a really powerful draw. So if you can take everybody’s phone or most people’s phones out where people aren’t generating more notifications, you also can draw down some of them. The intensity of the desire to even look at it. So I think there’s a, that strikes me as a very powerful reason to have limitations on phones. The flip side of that though is, there’s a lot of reasons to give kids the phones as well, right? And I, again,…

…ar a lot of parents coming at me, telling them that they can’t be on their phone. Telling me I need to take the phone away. You know, it’s a consequence, right, that I can take the phone away. And it’s sort of like, well, what are you doing with your phone? And if you’re if you’re telling them to take the phone away the hour before bedtime and charge it outside in the hallway. Where’s your phone? And so it’s really, you know, and when you’re speak…

…their kids can watch videos and play games. So, let’s increase the set of offerings. Just as parents can choose to stock good food in their house, they can choose to stock good apps on their phone. The next time their kid picks up their phone, there can be a range of fun, social, and educationalactivities for them to do. So, how can we get there?…

…rnet. There was no thought process of it. Not enough to just give people a phone or give young people a phone. We need to give them a framework with which to use that phone. We need to give them a toolkit. We need to give them the language. So a lot of what we do in schools is creating language around things that some young people or adults would think is obvious. But a lot of young people, often especially at a young age, don’t really have the to…

…decades, the program has helped tens of millions of Americans afford basic phone service. But in the digital era having a phone doesn’t necessarily mean you’re connected. That’s why, last June, the Commission initiated a proceeding to recast Lifeline for the broadband era. At a time when our economy and lives are increasingly moving online, it doesn’t make sense that the Lifeline program focuses only on 20th century narrowband voice service. Low-i…

…effort to talk about what I am reading to my kids. When I am reading on my phone, I literally announce “I am reading my book on my phone now.” Then, I make a effort to talk about what I am reading with my kids. It’s actually been fascinating to hear how interested they are. A teacher works with a rising first grader with the Hoot Reading app. Click for video. Make screen time reading time: If your child is like my son, and constantly asking to “pl…

…hey’re losing so much in terms of social interaction and learning when the phones are in those spaces. And then they can have their phones on either side of that. When I talk to teenagers about, phones going away during the school day what I hear from them is, we’re okay with it if it is totally universal, but if one kid has their phone and I don’t, okay, fine. For kids who are privileged enough to get to go to sleep away camps, where it’s a unive…

…abs, we developed a pilot study in Oakland, California looking at how cell phones could be used to encourage children’s emergent literacy skills. Parents who participated agreed to take a call from Sesame Street’s Maria introducing a new letter every day for a month. After the call, they were asked to hand the cell phone to their child who would then see a short video message about that letter from Elmo. At the conclusion of the study, 75% of lowe…

…ing up and down celebrating, but when Angel heard the news, his end of the phone went completely silent. Was Angel speechless in shock? Nope – he was still half asleep! “I had to explain to my teacher when school started again that I really was excited!” says Angel, a soon to be 13 year-old night owl who LOVES to stay up late at night (especially in the summer!) and wasn’t expecting an 8am phone call that day. Angel Acevedo-Martinez started creati…