them thinkthat they will be more protected with the law, he said. "Lets wait and see. But i doubt it For sociologists and scientists in France who study attention spans and the digital culture, removing smartphones from school makes sense even ifit does not fully address the difficulty of managing the siren call of social networks. It's a culture of presentism, " Monique Dagnaud, a researcher at the government run National Center for Scientific Research. said of social media. "It creates a rapport with the world that is very immediate, very visual, fun. The culture of the internet is ofimmediate pleasure, she added -the inverse of school, which is about delayed gratification Smartphone use sets off the production of dopamine-"the same system that is implicated in addictions and drugs, said Jean-Philippe Lachaux, a neuroscientist at the National Institute for Health and Medical research The problem with the telephone is that it reduces all sensation to what you see and the body disappears, he said.The world is very much reduced. That makes the smartphone ban all the more important, he said, so that children open up to the rest of the world" for at least a few hours a daythem think that they will be more protected with the law,” he said. “Let’s wait and see. But I doubt it.” For sociologists and scientists in France who study attention spans and the digital culture, removing smartphones from school makes sense even if it does not fully address the difficulty of managing the siren call of social networks. “It’s a culture of presentism,” Monique Dagnaud, a researcher at the government￾run National Center for Scientific Research, said of social media. “It creates a rapport with the world that is very immediate, very visual, fun.” “The culture of the internet is of immediate pleasure,” she added — the inverse of school, which is about delayed gratification. Smartphone use sets off the production of dopamine — “the same system that is implicated in addictions and drugs,” said Jean-Philippe Lachaux, a neuroscientist at the National Institute for Health and Medical Research. “The problem with the telephone is that it reduces all sensation to what you see and the body disappears,” he said. “The world is very much reduced.” That makes the smartphone ban all the more important, he said, so that children “open up to the rest of the world” for at least a few hours a day