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ailiphilia@feddit.it to Technology@beehaw.org · 2 years ago

UNESCO calls for global ban on smartphones in schools

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ailiphilia@feddit.it to Technology@beehaw.org · 2 years ago
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A new UN report raised concerns on Wednesday about the excessive use of smartphones, calling for them to be banned in schools worldwide. According to the UN's education, science and culture agency UNESCO, the over-use of mobile phones impacts learning.
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    Tablets out, imagination in: the schools that shun technology (2015)

    In the heart of Silicon Valley is a nine-classroom school where employees of tech giants Google, Apple and Yahoo send their children. But despite its location in America’s digital centre, there is not an iPad, smartphone or screen in sight.

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      Feel like you should post this stuff in the Luddite community, not the technology community.

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