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.

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00:00 The use of smartphones and tablets will be banned in Italian classrooms, even for teaching

00:07 purposes, under new guidelines that will be put into place in the upcoming weeks, Education

00:12 Minister Giuseppe Valditarra said in an interview with newspaper Il Foglio published Thursday.

00:17 The ban, which includes students from kindergarten, primary and lower secondary schools, extends

00:23 an existing ban on the non-academic use of smart devices introduced in Italy in 2007

00:29 and has not always been enforced.

00:31 (whooshing)