Schools Should Ban Mobile Phones to Improve Students’ Academic Results and...
In a lifestyle change which would have seemed unbelievable a generation ago, more teenagers own a telephone than a bike. The crucible happened six years ago: 2012 was the year teen mobile phone...
View Article‘Warped Views on Reality’: Private Schools are Banning Mobile Phones
Newington College has joined a growing number of schools banning mobile phones, saying they lead to lower concentration, higher stress and “warped views on reality”. The inner west school told students...
View ArticleVictoria to ban mobile phones in all state primary and secondary schools
Education Minister James Merlino has announced a ban on mobile phone use in all Victorian public schools, effective from term one of 2020. The ban aims to counteract several effects of mobile phone use...
View ArticleDo your kids suffer from Nomophobia?
This relatively new condition is also one of the most – if not the most – prevalent in the Western world. Like most phobias, sufferers report bouts of severe anxiety and irrational fear. According to a...
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Miley Cyrus: does the music business exploit women?
The pornification of everything is a huge problem across our culture, and one that has only grown muckier and more entrenched with the spread of the internet on teenagers’ mobile phones. It’s a problem...
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Alcohol giants pour into social media’s digital drinking spaces
“Booze pages” on Facebook that have as many as 10m “likes” have been blamed for promoting excessive drinking through giveaways and posts that suggest things like drinking early in the morning. Alcohol...
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Fifty Percent of Teens Sext by Mobile Phone
One in two teenage boys and girls have used a mobile phone to send a sexually explicit image of themselves, according to the biggest sexting survey undertaken in Australia.Teenage girls are using...
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