Hi, it's Diane, on my mind, cell phone band in school.

Earlier this year, Florida became the first state to outlaw the use of cell phones during

class time.

Some schools have gone further, barring phones all day.

Natasha Singer is a reporter in the New York Times.

She focuses on ways tech companies and their tools are reshaping public schools.

She says these new bands are spreading at the same time lawmakers consider the issue

of youth and technology more broadly.

There may be very concrete benefits to cell phone bands of making students more engaged

in class, but in terms of student autonomy and then this adding of discipline, I don't

think we know yet whether it's going to be a net negative or a net positive.

Natasha Singer joins me to explain the pros, cons and unintended consequences of this way

but tech regulation.

Natasha you've written extensively about cell phones in schools and actually you visited

a school that had banned cell phones during school hours, tell me what drew you to there

in the first place.

So I feel like we are at this inflection point in the United States where there is a kind

of national worry and alarm over students, children, teens, devices, social media.

And so students use of cell phones in school is a subset of that concern.

And what drew me first to Florida was that this summer, Florida passed a law that requires

public schools to prohibit cell phone use during class time.

We have districts across the United States that have different cell phone rules for students

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