Notifications stress me out (I stripped them down to the point were I get very few) and this article is raising my blood pressure.
Best thing I did for my phone induced stress is get an old Pebble smartwatch, choose the few apps/contacts I want to get notified instantly to vibrate on the watch and set my phone itself on silent permanently.
I switched to Niagara launcher. Set all notifications to silent so they only appear in the shade and then i can only see the inline notification of the handful of fav apps pinned. It’s been so wonderful to just ignore my phone.
Oooo I hadn’t heard of Niagara launcher before. It looks really beautiful!
You paint a beautiful picture, and I’ve been meaning to switch off Nova Launcher since they got bought by an analytics company. I’m going to have to try this out, thanks.
Nova got bought? Is that what happened to them? :(
Yeah. It’s been almost 2 years now but I only heard about it a couple months ago.
damn 1 phone call a minute? Are they running an election or something?
This is the summary of all the notifications received by each of the students. According to the article we don’t know how many students there were for that specific source image.
Take away their phones ffs. Put them all in a box until class is over. If they are not on DnD for the duration of class, they will be confiscated for another period. Like… Let’s go. Let’s parent these mfs.
Didn’t read the article, did you? It talks about that.
It was quite long. This is what I could find at the end while skimming again.
I asked if they thought education would be improved on campus if phones were forcibly locked away for the duration of the school day. Only one student gave me so much as an affirmative nod!
Among students, the consensus was that kids generally tune into school at the level they care to, and that a phone doesn’t change that. A disinterested student without a phone will just tune out in some other way. They also put forth the idea that the quality of the teacher has a lot to do with how much they’ll tune in. This take had broad support.
🤷♂️ If it’s a problem or distraction it’s gotta go away. But of course it’s not the only factor. I didn’t grow up with notifications in class but I was very distracted still. But a phone would not have helped me, let’s just say that.
Why are you linking to lesswrong
What is lesswrong and why should they avoid linking it? It looks like a forum of sorts with a somewhat pretentious code of conduct but nothing to avoid on principle.
