Reading Test : Techniques

Mobile Phones to Be Banned in Dutch Classrooms

Mobile phones can be very distracting when you're trying to focus on
something. That's why the Dutch government is banning them — in classrooms, at
least. The government has announced that from January 1, 2024, students will
not be allowed to use their mobile phones, tablets and smartwatches in
classrooms, unless they are needed for the lesson or for medical reasons.
Education minister Robbert Dijkgraaf said that although mobile phones are
a big part of our lives, there is no need to have them in the classroom.
Schools will be given until the summer of 2024 to introduce the rules.
The Netherlands is not the first country to introduce a ban like this. In 2018,
France banned mobile phones from schools for children between 3 and 15 years
of age, and China introduced a similar ban in 2021. Several studies have looked at
the impact of technology on students' concentration.
In one study, published in ScienceDirect in 2018, college students were
asked to listen to a 20-minute lecture, either with their phones or without.
The students who kept their phones received distracting text messages while the
lecture was taking place.
When asked questions about the lecture, the students who kept their
phones answered more questions incorrectly than the students whose phones
were taken away. And a different study from the University of Chicago found that
phones can reduce how much information our brains take in just by being present
— even if they're placed face down or turned off.

1. When will the Dutch government introduce the ban on mobile phones in
schools?

2. What other countries have introduced similar bans?

3. What did the study from the University of Chicago find about phone use?
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