Episode #391
Episode 390: A discussion with an Australian principal about Australia's social media and cell phone laws in schools
What if we could hear about the future? Well, you can on this episode as Ted discusses how Australian laws around cell phones and social media have positively impacted learning and student wellbeing. Australia is a great study of what “to do” in order to support the growth of young people. Principal Lars Anderson from Thornbury High School near Melbourne, Australia gives us insight into what the positive consequences have been with cell phones bans for the last six years and how the social media prohibitions for children under 16 are impacting children at his school. This is a great conversation about the ways in which technology can be successfully unraveled and how one school has shifted their methods in order to better support students.
