New Israeli study - 58% of the parents against smart phones in classes

A New Israeli study shows that 58% of the parents are against the use of smart phones in classes but only 28% of them will act in order to stop this use pushed by the ministry of education.
The study is reported in the Israeli newspaper MAARIV.
Prof' advice the ministry to show the parents the advantages of using smart phones in class in order to persuade them to go along with the ministries BYOD program.

"Prof. Ina Blau: "There is a lack of understanding among parents about the potential of technology to improve learning, and I would recommend that the Ministry of Education invest in explaining and demonstrating this potential."

I call Prof' to learn about the health and behavioral issues caused by smartphones use.


Link (via google translator) - https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=iw&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.maariv.co.il%2Fbusiness%2Ftech%2FArticle-624772&edit-text=&act=url

94% of Israeli school students use their cellphone in class

Two weeks ago a new study was published by the university of Haifa Israel that showed that 94% of the student uses their cellphone in the classrooms and during lessons.

http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=iw&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mako.co.il%2Fnews-israel%2Feducation%2FArticle-4d1223d56b6db31004.htm 

Today a teacher published a column in the leading Israeli site YNET and complained that most of his students are using their cellphone in the classroom leaving him not chance to pass his lecture/lesson.

http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=iw&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ynet.co.il%2Farticles%2F0%2C7340%2CL-4329934%2C00.html

The thing is that the ministry of education was supposed to restrict and limit  the use of cellphone in the schools (ban in classes, allow in special areas, educate for safe use) according to its decision from a year ago (following a low suite - http://norad4u.blogspot.co.il/2011/09/israeli-ministry-of-education-is-going.html ) and the recommendation of a multi ministry comity (http://norad4u.blogspot.co.il/2012/05/israeli-ministry-of-education-have.html). It seems that other then publishing their resolution (and patting on their own backs for doing that) the ministry of education did nothing to enforce the resolution, leaving the schools as a "no man's land". 

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  I am beginning to think this is a systematic way of handling things in the ministry of education.