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📌 MAROKO133 Hot ai: Banning Phones in Schools Is Drastically Changing the Behavior

Over the past few years, a huge number of schools in the United States and around the world have banned cell phone use among their students.

It’s a divisive topic, and the effects are only starting to come into focus. Just look at New York State, where governor Kathy Hocul and lawmakers put a ban into the state budget last spring in an effort to give kids a break from distractions at school.

Gothamist spoke to students about their experience with the ban, and the number one takeaway didn’t have to do with anything to do with hot-button topics like social media addiction or cyberbullying. Instead, it was that kiboshing phones is forcing kids to actually talk to each other in meatspace again — and it’s making schools way noisier, for better or worse.

“Sometimes I would take naps in the lunchroom, but now I can’t because of the noise,” 15-year old Queens high school student Jimena Garcia told the site.  “But it’s fun.”

That’s a bold contrast, the Gothamist reported, from previous semesters where kids sat in the lunchroom silently on the phones, creating an environment where you could “hear a pin drop.”

“I do like how this phone ban is allowing students to just connect with each other, make new friendships,” Alyssa Ko, the 17-year old class president at Garcia’s school, told Gothamist. “Because some people use their phone to just hide away.”

With some exceptions for students with disabilities or those learning English and needing a translation app, the ban prohibits all internet-enabled devices throughout the entirety of the school day. As of now, at least 31 states and Washington DC have implemented some sort of restrictions on cell phone usage in schools.

Parents have pushed back state for reasons ranging from concern about getting in touch with their kids in an emergency to good old-fashioned helicopter parenting, but teachers have been largely supportive, saying that phones have become an all-encompassing distraction in educational settings.

When educators were surveyed by the New York State United Teachers, for instance, the results were promising. Eighty-nine percent of respondents said the new policies have improved the school environment, 76 percent said class participation has improved, and 77 percent reported more positive social interactions both within classrooms and through hallways. 

“Now when we get computers, I actually have to [do] deep research instead of going straight to AI,” another NYC student told Gothamist. 

Not all students appreciate the bans, of course. aren’t embraced or appreciated by all. Enakshi Barua, 14, is opposed on principle.

“I feel like the trust isn’t there between the students and teachers,” 14-year-old Enakshi Barua told Gothamist. “So I feel like that should be built instead of banning the phones.” 

Perhaps the sweetest of the changes: analog activities are back, like passing notes in class, writing cards to crushes, and taking Polaroid pictures.

“There are just a lot of memories that we make throughout high school that we want to capture,” Ko told Gothamist. “I actually have a lot of Polaroids on my wall.”

More on screen time: Blocking the Internet on People’s Phones for Two Weeks Led to Profound Changes in Mental Health and Attention Span

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📌 MAROKO133 Eksklusif ai: Tech Workers Are in Deep, Deep Trouble Terbaru 2025

For years, any American kid eying a stable, future-proof job was told to “learn to code.”

Now in 2025, anyone who followed that advice faces a painful reckoning: a decade of booming computer science enrollments has created a massive pile-up of graduates entering an abysmal job market.

A new report by the analyst firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas, which tracks layoffs across various industries, found that the US tech industry had the highest number of layoffs in October of any sector, with a whopping 33,281 tech workers out of the job.

That’s an awfully high number for one month, and it looks even worse in context — just a month earlier, the number of tech industry layoffs was only 5,639.

Tech companies are planning to lay off 141,159 jobs this year so far, per the report, up from 120,470 over the same period in 2024.

And it likely may not look much better in the near future, either.

“It’s possible with rate cuts and a strong showing in November, companies may make a late-season push for employees,” the report reads, “but at this point, we do not expect a strong seasonal hiring environment in 2025.”

The analysis was spotted by SF Gate, which reported that tech company job cuts in the US are at their highest levels since 2020, when the COVID-19 pandemic ushered in a short-lived recession. For the month of October, however, the analyst report notes that total layoffs haven’t been this high since 2003 — in other words, not even the global financial crisis was this much of a bloodbath.

While it’s easy to blame AI for the tech industry layoffs, CG&C highlights some other factors contributing to the dismal labor news.

“October’s pace of job cutting was much higher than average for the month,” the firm wrote. “Some industries are correcting after the hiring boom of the pandemic, but this comes as AI adoption, softening consumer and corporate spending, and rising costs drive belt-tightening and hiring freezes.”

Across all industries, “those laid off now are finding it harder to quickly secure new roles, which could further loosen the labor market,” the report commentary read.

The depressing economic news comes as tech companies look to be some of the first adopters of their own AI systems, a proving ground of sorts for the software they hope will bring about a new stage of human civilization.

Last week, Amazon cut some 14,000 jobs within its corporate offices, with thousands more likely on the way. Over the summer, when Microsoft sacked 9,000 employees, its CEO suggested freshly-unemployed workers turn to AI chatbots to help “reduce the emotional and cognitive load that comes with job loss.”

Meanwhile, there’s plenty of reason to doubt that AI is actually capable of replacing thousands of employees — a narrative tech executives have a material interest in maintaining. While some companies like Amazon were surely over-bloated following pandemic hiring sprees, AI is mostly failing when used to improve revenue streams, the reason companies execute these layoffs in the first place.

The question, then, is how much deeper the layoffs are going to go — something only some of the most powerful corporate executives can answer.

More on labor: The AI Industry Is Traumatizing Desperate Contractors in the Developing World for Pennies

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