After introducing on the Fitbit Ace LTE, Google is bringing “School time” to Android phones and tablets, as well as Samsung Wear OS devices.
Seems similar to the focus modes in iPhones like ‘work’ mode. However I don’t like the point about spying.
The cynic in me is wondering if this is just Google trying to get around the movement to stop children from being given addiction machines* before they’re ready for them. (*Smart phones with infinite-content-stream “social-media” apps)
There’s a push to ban smart phones for students below age 16 at schools (and educating parents to try to get them to just give their children dumb phones until age 16 outside of school hours, too.)
But maybe that’s just me being cynical. This movement only started gaining steam after The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt was published earlier this year, afaik, and Google is hardly an agile company anymore…
