Rome: Agencies
Italy decided to ban smartphones in general in classrooms starting from the new academic year, according to a decree issued by the government headed by Giorgia Meloni, according to the Italian newspaper Al Giornale.
The newspaper pointed out that it is no longer possible to use smartphones or mobile phones for educational purposes, and the new decree was published by the Minister of Education, Giuseppe Valditara, and with the ban imposed on mobile phones, Valditara seeks to encourage students to write by hand again, and return to using a pen.
To achieve this, Valdetara ordered the reinstatement of the “school calendar,” where tasks must be recorded in pen. “We need to get the children used to paper again,” the minister said. In this way, parents should also be able to better monitor what is happening at school. According to what was reported by the Youm7 website in Cairo, he added:
In principle, there has been a ban on mobile phones in Italian schools for many years, which has sometimes been relaxed and not always implemented, and there are similar decisions in other countries. In Germany, discussions about the ban are still ongoing.
The new “School Calendar” will be implemented in Italian classrooms during the next academic year, to encourage students to manually record assignments to enhance handwriting skills and to help parents monitor students. After the cell phone ban, some Italian students may find themselves using cell phones less. Repeatedly in their classrooms across the country.