Listen Frontier: Are Oklahoma classrooms too wired for learning?

Listen Frontier: Are Oklahoma classrooms too wired for learning?

From Listen Frontier by The Frontier

October 17, 2025 · 21 min

About this episode

The episode discusses the impact of a new cellphone policy in Oklahoma classrooms and explores an interim study on technology use in education.

Frontier: We spoke back in the spring about the cellphone bill you ran that would remove cell phones from classrooms. Catch our listeners up on where that stands today.  Seifried: It’s been in effect for almost two months in Oklahoma, and the results and the feedback have just been amazing. I heard from schools and administrators early on, talking about the lunchrooms being louder and the hallways being more crowded. My favorite recent anecdote is library books are being checked out at a higher frequency than at this point last year, so a lot of really positive feedback. Frontier: That kind of leads us into what we're talking about today, which is you have an interim study about technology in schools. So tell us a little bit about that study and what you hope to learn from it. Seifried: Yeah, this study sort of really dovetails off of my work on removing cell phones, because as I went around the state and talked about it over the last two years, I would meet with parents who were concerned about the use of screens and laptops in their child's classrooms. And they would question if learning was happening, or how much students are using screens. And at first, I sort of didn't…

People in this episode

Guest: Seifried

Topics covered

  • technology in schools
  • cell phone policy
  • student learning

Keywords

  • Oklahoma
  • cell phones
  • classrooms
  • learning
  • neuroscience

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Products: library books

Places: Oklahoma

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