Change starts locally.

As graduate students studying education, we wanted to bring a part of “APPstinence” to our own classrooms. As K-12 phone bans sweep across the United States and countries around the world make serious moves to control tech use, we thought it would be an oversight not to look into our own learning spaces.

By engaging our fellow students who are fantastic, equity-minded educators alongside knowledgeable faculty, we are advocating for classrooms to adopt low-tech or no-tech classroom policies. Our recommendations keep in mind that students have varying needs and the school utilizes a vast array of pedagogies.

As students at the Harvard Graduate School of Education we feel it’s important that our classrooms reflect the absolute gold standard of learning, while keeping in mind elements such as equity, multiculturalism, and student autonomy.