{"data":{"id":1800,"lang":"en","title":"Sweden to Ban Mobile Phones in Schools From This Fall, Reversing Years of Classroom Screen Use","summary":"Sweden will ban phones in schools from autumn 2026, citing falling literacy and a $59 million plan to bring back textbooks over screens.","category":"other","category_label":"Other","published_at":"2026-06-09T10:02:33Z","updated_at":"2026-06-09T10:02:33Z","url":"https://techtools.cz/tools/news/article/1800-sweden-to-ban-mobile-phones-in-schools-from-this-fall-reversing-years-of","api_url":"https://techtools.cz/news-api/v1/articles/1800?lang=en","markdown_url":"https://techtools.cz/news-api/v1/articles/1800.md?lang=en","image_url":"https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/ee7e986/2147483647/strip/true/crop/5064x3376+0+0/resize/880x587!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fnpr.brightspotcdn.com%2Fdims3%2Fdefault%2Fstrip%2Ffalse%2Fcrop%2F5064x3376%200%200%2Fresize%2F5064x3376%21%2F%3Furl%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F73%2F7a%2Fab8c49e54b449f97386c116a923a%2Fap26159263982303.jpg","word_count":172,"reading_time_minutes":1,"sources":[{"url":"https://www.npr.org/2026/06/09/g-s1-126967/sweden-set-to-ban-mobile-phones-in-schools","domain":"npr.org"},{"url":"https://www.wfae.org/world/2026-06-09/sweden-set-to-ban-mobile-phones-in-schools","domain":"wfae.org"}],"translation":{"lang":"cs","id":1873,"title":"Švédsko od podzimu zakáže mobilní telefony ve školách a ustupuje od let používání obrazovek ve výuce","url":"https://techtools.cz/tools/news/clanek/1873-svedsko-od-podzimu-zakaze-mobilni-telefony-ve-skolach-a-ustupuje-od-let","api_url":"https://techtools.cz/news-api/v1/articles/1873?lang=cs"},"content":"Sweden will ban mobile phones in schools starting in the autumn 2026 academic year, the latest move in the country's center-right government push to roll screens out of classrooms in favor of books and traditional teaching. The policy applies across all school levels and extends a broader effort that bars digital materials for children under 2 and drops any digital-learning requirement for preschoolers.\n\nOfficials cite a measurable decline in literacy: 24.3% of Swedish ninth graders failed basic reading comprehension in the 2022 OECD assessment. \"We're rolling the screens back because we believe that books and more traditional ways of learning are better for kids,\" said Joar Forsell, who chairs the Swedish parliament's education committee. The government has set aside 555 million Swedish krona (about $59 million) for textbooks and teachers' guides.\n\nLaptops will still be issued to students but are discouraged in class unless a teacher authorizes their use. Sweden's shift mirrors a wider international reversal on classroom technology, as several European countries reconsider the screen-heavy approach adopted over the past decade."}}