This week we had another guest speaker who we have had before, Rich McCue. Rich led our class through a brainstorming exercise where we added topics to a board online and then joined breakout grips based on one of the topics on the board. I joined the group discussing phone bans and tech access. We started off talking about our experience with phone rule sin elementary, middle, and high school all of our experiences made me relax how different each school environment was. Our group talked about lot about how expectations with phones really depends on age and how it should change on age a 10-year-old should not have the same access to the internet as a 17-year-old does. In elementary schools a lot of our experiences were having strict phone rules which makes sense because my personal opinion is young children should have a phone out in school at that age other than emergencies. Middle school seems like the perfect time to start talking with students about digital citizenship and how to use phones safely and responsibly. a lot of us shared that schools we went to used things likes Wi-Fi blocks to block certain apps or phone sleeves to help manage phone usage in schools. we came to the conclusion that most students almost always found a work around. For high school we all agreed that students should now have more autonomy when it comes to phone because they are at the age where they need to start taking responsibility with their phones and learn when to use it and when not to. At this time, it is less of the teacher’s responsibility and more of the students. Instead of having full phone bans we felt that teachers should set out clear expectations and boudoirs for phones in their classroom such as warnings, putting phones way syringe lessons, and having students only e able to use them during free work periods. This conversation really made me realize that phone bans are not something that fits eery student and the rules really shift as the grades go up. instead of focusing on how to block apps and taking phones away I believe that teachers should focus more on eon teaching students how to use them and build healthy habits, understand boundaries, and overall teach students how to manage distractions on their own. Teaching them these skills can help them recognize unhealthy habits and correct them on their own.