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	Podcast:		Marketplace Tech
	Episode:		How one school in Ireland is trying to curb phone use among kids
	Category:		Technology
	Duration:		00:06:21
	Publish Date:		2024-11-28 10:51:37
	Description:		A survey by nonprofit organization Common Sense Media shows 42% of children in the U.S. have a phone by the age of 10. And numbers like this are causing concern for educators, including a group of headteachers in Greystones, a town in Ireland. That group was so worried by the increased levels of anxiety among children using smartphones and social media that last year they asked parents to sign a voluntary pledge to delay buying cellphones for their children until at least the age of 11. The BBC’s Leanna Byrne checks in to see what effect it had.
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