Alberta students more dialed into class since cellphone ban in schools [Video]

It’s been a month since the start of the school year and that provincewide rule banning cellphones from classrooms, and while some students are still getting used to the change, some educators say they are already noticing positive signs.

“It’s been very positive– very productive in terms of teachers being able to go facilitate their classes and students engaging in the learning,” said Kel Connelly, principal of West Ridge School.

“Quite frankly, we expected there to be much heavier lifting in the first couple weeks but students I think have accepted that this is the way it is not only at this school or the CBE but across the province.”

A final text or scroll of social media before entering school has been part of Alberta students’ routines for a month now.

When the semester started, so did the province’s ban on using cellphones in class, a move many parents …