The school year begins with a new measure that has been long demanded by many families in recent years: a complete ban on cell phones and smartwatches throughout all stages of compulsory education, even when used for educational purposes. It was announced by the Minister of Education, Esther Niubó, at the end of last year.. Likewise, the use of digital tablets is also expected to be gradually limited in early childhood education (ages three to five), although "sufficient availability" of these devices will be guaranteed for specific uses in the other educational stages. Niubó also announced a "progressive restriction" on the use of digital whiteboards in preschool classrooms, while these would remain in place in the upper stages. This restriction, however, would not apply to the laptops given to secondary school students. But how does the educational community view this?

Today, one of the greatest educational challenges facing families and teachers is the relationship adolescents have with screens. The digital world is part of their lives, and it is where they also live their adolescence, whether we like it or not. Jaume Funes, psychologist, educator, and journalist, author of several books—including the best-selling Love when I least deserve it... because that's when I need it most. (2018) – returns with Not without my cell phone (2025). A thought-provoking book on how to educate adolescents in the digital world and offers useful strategies for parents and teachers, always prioritizing educational support over prohibition.

In How to trap the universe in a spider web (2017), Tomás Saraceno let 7,000 spiders create a forest of cobwebs for months, which could be visited at the Museum of Modern Art in Buenos Aires. This army, oblivious to the human gaze and its aestheticization, executed in each kick what Louise Bourgeois projected in her MotherThe spider, as a diligent, attentive, calm, precise, and subtle animal, capable of unraveling all apparent contradictions. Spinning a web that hunts prey and protects its young, a tenuous, almost invisible structure of great strength and tenacity, capable of taking root in trees, flying, or acting as a diving bell. However, only to the human mind, which knows through opposition, is it a paradox. In nature, all these attributes coexist seamlessly.

The parent agent tells the child agent that he's on his cell phone all day. And it's true. But so is the parent element. The child element, as soon as he wakes up and half-opens an eye, starts listening to the "good morning" audio messages and checking the messages from those who went to sleep later. The parent element, who's already been dressed for hours, reproaches him for it. But the fact is that when he got up, the first thing he did was play at the online casino, lying in bed.

"Most people have at least two accounts on Instagram and TikTok," says 17-year-old Selma. Victoria, the same age, says she has three on Instagram and three on TikTok. No more having just one social media profile. In fact, in 2021, a UNICEF study on the impact of technology In adolescence, it already revealed that 61.5% of young people have multiple accounts or profiles on the same social network, while 83.5% have a presence on three or more platforms. But why do they want so many profiles and how do they use them?

We review some of the first mobile phones that integrated functions that now seem ordinary but were revolutionary. Originally, their technology was very limited, and they had very different dimensions than most current commercial models.

The Minister of Economy, Carlos Cuerpo, has taken advantage of his visit to Barcelona, ​​​​in the framework of the Mobile World Congress (MWC) this Wednesday, to send a message of reassurance in case the US government of Donald Trump approves new tariffs: "From Europe and Spain we will not be naive; a," he said.

"At no time did they tell us that they were there and it was not included in the documentation either," explains to ARA one of the members of the Levanta el Jefe platform who participated in the second meeting of the commission created by the Department of Education to decide what the future of screens and mobile phones in classrooms should be. On Wednesday, the group of professionals who must analyze the effects of the use of digital devices and environments and their consequences met. Among those summoned were pediatricians and psychologists such as Francisco Villar –known for specializing in treating suicidal behavior among adolescents– and also entities such as Levanta el Cabo itself, which includes teachers and families who fight for a responsible and regulated use of screens, or AFFAC, which represents the majority of associations.

The agreement to extend Mobile World Congress's (MWC) stay in Barcelona until at least 2030 was signed this morning. The new contract will be extended yearly automatically from the next decade onwards, provided one of the parties does not wish to terminate the agreement. This will make the Catalan capital a permanent venue for the congress. To make the agreement possible, the administrations (City Council, Generalitat and central government) have had to update their contributions to MWCapital, which will go from €5m each to €8m. "It is impossible to understand MWC without Barcelona or Barcelona without MWC," said GSMA Director General Mats Granryd.

"There is nothing harder than doing nothing", so begins How to do nothing. Resisting the attention economy by artist and writer Jenny Odell (Ariel, 2021), who presents the book as a field guide to doing nothing as an act of political resistance to the attention economy.