A father from Bilbao has asked me about the secondary education protocol being developed at the AMPA around mobiles.

As I read on the website of the Basque Government, in January 2024 there was talk in schools about the regulation of mobiles, that there will be no prohibition on the part of the Department of Education. If, at some point, a teacher sees the need to use a mobile phone to carry out his/her educational activity, he/she will look good to allow it. Always taking into account that proper use is made, that the goal is to empower the students and that it is regulated, that is, it must be included in the Regulations of Organization and Functioning of the center and it must be approved by the School Council.

The digitization model that we have in large part in the socio-educational system has several dynamics of its own: it is based on an extremist data model that can increase the exclusion and vulnerability of some students in the future. Being an extremist system, it seeks the attention of the user, so most applications generate addiction and dependence. And it can extend the violent behaviors that can occur in schools and in other spaces of socialization to places where they've been a refuge so far, like the home.

As long as Google is a system for all devices (either via Chromebook or Android), those protocols would include: At school: limiting use; promoting critical digital education; advising applications that do not encourage data extraction; caring for privacy (limiting permissions that the app can use, for example); implementing security.

Outside school: try not to spread the shadow of contagious school or street relationships home, through messaging, video game chat, clasroom chat, or social networks. Not all relationships have to be bad, we must pay close attention to the dynamics of our sons and daughters.