France banned the use of smartphones in schools in 2018 and in Italy, teachers collect students’ smartphones at the beginning of the day. Finland and the Netherlands plan to introduce the ban in 2024. Unesco’s 2023 Global Education Monitoring report entitled ‘Technology in education: A tool on whose terms?’ cautions that while technologies in the […]
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The National Party has pledged to prohibit students from using their phones while at school if they win the election. However, the implementation of this policy will ultimately be left to individual schools to decide. This move aims to align New Zealand with certain Australian states that already enforce similar regulations. Christopher Luxon, the opposition
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The 2023 Global Education Monitoring Report, ‘Technology in education – a tool on whose terms‘ has recently issued a call for the cautious use of technology, in African classrooms, emphasising that smartphones and other devices should only be utilised when they contribute positively to learning outcomes. The report acknowledges that certain technologies can indeed support
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The management of Bingham University in Nasarawa state has banned the use of smartphones among students of the institution. The ban was announced in a memo dated January 18 and signed by Esther Dyaji, the registrar of the institution. The memo of the smartphones ban by Bingham University According to the memo, the ban followed
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