Overview
- UNCuyo’s Colegio Universitario Central will require students in 2026 to switch off phones and place them in a locked classroom box for the entire school day, with use allowed only for planned lessons or authorized exceptions.
- CUC frames the policy as a protective, pedagogical measure rather than a ban, with a three‑month evaluation and annual reviews under its School Coexistence System, plus family guidance and digital citizenship workshops.
- Escuela ORT Argentina will prohibit phones and personal devices during classes and recess starting next Monday, requiring them to remain off, disconnected and stored in backpacks, with the rule added to its Code of Convivencia and enforced after an initial adaptation period.
- ORT’s plan allows limited exceptions for specific didactic needs and brief use at lunch for operational reasons, with communication routed through school coordinations instead of direct family contact during the day.
- Other institutions are moving in the same direction—such as the Colegio Quintana’s full‑day ban with locked storage—while officials stress each school’s convivencia agreements; prior pilots and a 2025 Ueicee study in Buenos Aires City reported improved attention, more peer interaction and better perceived performance, and a new provincial law in Buenos Aires regulates primary‑level screen use from March 2.