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Candidate Walsh backs bell-to-bell phone limits for younger grades, calls for EdTech re-evaluation
Summary
Walsh said her classroom experience supports stricter phone limits for younger students, scaffolding responsibility for older students, and a district-wide re-evaluation of EdTech investments that surged during COVID but, she said, have not always yielded pedagogical benefits.
In a Brookline Interactive interview, Laura Banes Walsh described classroom policies and a district approach she would favor on technology: a strict ban on phone use during school for younger students, scaffolded responsibility for older students, and a push to reassess district investments in educational technology.
"We have had a bell-to-bell ban on technology on cell phones for years now," Walsh said, describing her school’s practice of locking phones for fifth through…
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