'Digital pause': France pilots school mobile phone ban

Topics: Education Issues, Information Technology

Sources: Phys.org

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'Digital pause': France pilots school mobile phone ban

Tens of thousands of pupils in France are going through a slightly different return to school this autumn, deprived of their mobile phones.

At 180 "colleges", the middle schools French children attend between the ages of 11 and 15, a scheme is being trialed to ban the use of mobile phones during the entire school day.

The trial of the "pause numerique" ("digital pause"), which encompasses more than 50,000 pupils, is being implemented ahead of a possible plan to enforce it nationwide from 2025.

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