{"id":35898,"date":"2018-12-25T00:00:27","date_gmt":"2018-12-25T05:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=35898"},"modified":"2018-12-23T13:31:55","modified_gmt":"2018-12-23T18:31:55","slug":"tech-advocate-can-schools-search-students-personal-devices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=35898","title":{"rendered":"Tech Advocate: Can Schools Search Students&#8217; Personal Devices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tech Advocate: C<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetechedvocate.org\/can-schools-search-students-personal-devices\/\">an Schools Search Students&#8217; Personal Devices<\/a> by Matthew Lynch:<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The average American checks their smartphone as many as fifty times a day. That\u2019s not much, because the average student may be checking their phone 74 times a day, making personal devices the biggest distraction in class.<\/p>\n<p>Most students today wouldn\u2019t think of leaving their personal devices at home. They bring their tablets and smartphones to school, and using them in class can cause problems for everyone.<\/p>\n<p><strong>When personal devices become a problem<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Frustrated teachers know to remove distractions that prevent students from learning, so they naturally collect the smartphones and tablets. School officials have every right to do so because they must ensure that no one disrupts the learning process. Doing so is not much different than collecting the handwritten notes students pass between themselves.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tech Advocate: Can Schools Search Students&#8217; Personal Devices by Matthew Lynch:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cell-phones","category-school-searches"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35898"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35899,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35898\/revisions\/35899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}