Helping students to disconnect involves encouraging self-reflection on technology use, no-tech class activities and apps and phone settings that provide motivation for more no-mobile-device time.

A new study from Southern Illinois University finds that schools could start giving kids a "tech break" in class. The researchers say those tech breaks let kids use their phones for just 60 seconds.

During technology breaks lasting just one minute, phone use was at its lowest, making them most efficient at reducing the time students spent on their phones during class.

Is it necessary coddling or just good science to give college students breaks to check their phones? Anthropologist Barbara J. King takes a look.

Technology breaks reduce cell phone use in college classrooms but have mixed results on academic performance, suggesting further investigation is needed.

Students who were given the shortest phone break—which totaled one minute—had the highest test grades and were the most attentive during class.