Hi it Diane, 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 bans 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.

The Tasha 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 and many districts ban cell phones, some enforce it, some don't, but to have a state impose this statewide ban seemed really

important and then within Florida orange county public schools which is in Orlando, it's the eighth largest school district.

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