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The phone ban has had a big impact on school work

A phone ban has been in place at Öldutún School since the beginning of 2019, and according to the principal, it has worked well. The school's atmosphere and culture have changed for the better, and there is more peace in the classroom.

However, the headmaster Valdimar Víðisson says that it has not been separately studied whether the phone ban has had a positive effect on literacy and interest in reading. These are the results of research by Kristján Ketill Stefánsson, assistant professor of pedagogy at the University of Iceland's Faculty of Education. Víðisson says he realizes that phones can be a safety device and that children use them, for example, after the school day ends to reach their parents.

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