Smartphone-Free School: Cases in Italy

The first is the San Benedetto High School in Piacenza. In Pordenone, the primary school is smartphone-free. And in Savona, the ban lasts for six hours.

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SMARTPHONE BAN IN CLASS

SCHOOLS WITHOUT SMARTPHONES

The number of smartphone-free schools is increasing. Rather than through bans and bureaucratic circulars, the most effective approaches are those that combine teachers and families with the goal of reducing cell phone use, starting right during school hours. The first experience in this direction dates back to a high school in Piacenza, followed by the Collodi primary school in Pordenone and now the Ferraris Pancaldo Institute in Savona. Obviously, no school intends to slow down or block the use of cell phones. technology for students, but the attempt is to make these electronic prostheses less invasive in the lives of young people.

PIACENZA SCHOOL WITHOUT SMARTPHONES

Encourage kids to interact with each other "live", putting the smartphone aside for a few hours, at least during working hours schoolThis is the initiative adopted by the private Catholic high school 'San Benedetto' in Piacenza, where every morning students place their cell phones in a case that completely shields them until the school bell. The decision was adopted by the management with the approval of parents and represents a real detoxification process towards an instrument that inevitably represents a distracting during lessons. The new measure was adopted in September on the first day of school for the one hundred students of this small sports and applied sciences high school, built on the site of a cloistered convent. A place that might suggest 'obscurantist' intentions towards technology but, on the contrary, those responsible for the initiative assure that they believe a lot in the usefulness of cell phones but that they want encourage kids to start talking to each other again, forgetting WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook for a few hours.

CELL PHONES SCREENED IN CLASS

This measure was made possible thanks to an invention that comes directly from the United States where it has already been adopted in many colleges, courts, and concerts. The device is called Yondr and it's a storage bag where students put their cell phones during the first period. The case, which is kept by the students, has a lock that the teacher can close. unlock at the end of the dayThus, throughout the entire school day, including recess, cell phones remain sealed and shielded, effectively cutting students off from the digital world for five hours.

PORDENONE SCHOOL WITHOUT CELL PHONES

In the Collodi primary school in Pordenone the Cell They were eliminated based on an agreement between teachers and families, a pact that included a basic premise: no smartphones for children under 12. Even when they asked for them. And this made the Pordenone school's operation easier. smartphone free. 
 

SCHOOL IN SAVONA WITHOUT SMARTPHONES

The Ferraris Pancaldo Institute of Savona has planned the establishment of a section for the entire school year smartphone free, where students will not be able to use the telephone during the six hours of work in the classroomCell phones are left in a locker at the school entrance and collected at the end of class.

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