With Alp Süngü and Pradeep Choudhury, @andbjn.bsky.social did a massive experiment in education: across 400+ classrooms, they randomly assigned half to a phone ban policy. Students' academic perforamce improved, esp. among the weakest students. 🎓
Now out in Science: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
science.org
Phones impede learning: Evidence from a massive phone-free classroom experiment
Lower-performing students benefited the most, but even higher-performing students expressed support for the policy