Ministers confirm plan to ban use of mobile phones in schools in England

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Smartphones to be banned in Italian classrooms

Phones and tablets can lead to aggression against staff and create tensions in schools, Italy's education minister Giuseppe Valditara claimed.

Mass. school takes unique approach to phone use by students

With teachers and education leaders across the state grappling with how best to deal with cellphones in the classroom, officials at a boarding school in western Massachusetts have taken a novel approach. Two years ago, school leaders at the Buxton School in Williamstown banned the use of smartphones on campus. The school also provided students and faculty with “dumb phones”...

Rome, February 22 - Giuseppe Valditara's crusade against cell phones does not stop: the Minister has announced a new squeeze on elementary and middle schools on the use of electronic media in the classroom, even for educational purposes. Valditara against cell phones In the Ministry's next guidelines on kindergartens, elementary and middle schools, it will be indicated to avoid the use of mobile phones in classes: a practice normally already ado…

The use of smartphones and tablets will be banned in Italian classrooms even for teaching purposes according to new guidelines that will be published soon, Italian Education Minister Giuseppe Valditara said in an interview with the daily Il Foljo today.

The Minister al Foglio, also avoid using a tablet. The decision had already been taken in 2007, the ministry applied it in 2022 to kindergarten and elementary schools (ANSA)