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.
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