{"id":234094,"date":"2026-06-19T21:17:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T01:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/19\/norway-imposes-near-ai-ban-for-junior-school-pupils-curbs-use-for-older-children\/"},"modified":"2026-06-20T00:15:26","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T04:15:26","slug":"norway-imposes-near-ai-ban-for-junior-school-pupils-curbs-use-for-older-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/19\/norway-imposes-near-ai-ban-for-junior-school-pupils-curbs-use-for-older-children\/","title":{"rendered":"Norway imposes near AI ban for junior school pupils, curbs use for older children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/world\/europe\/article\/3357751\/norway-imposes-near-ai-ban-junior-school-pupils-curbs-use-older-children\">Norway imposes near AI ban for junior school pupils, curbs use for older children<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/world\/europe\/article\/3357751\/norway-imposes-near-ai-ban-junior-school-pupils-curbs-use-older-children\">https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/world\/europe\/article\/3357751\/norway-imposes-near-ai-ban-junior-school-pupils-curbs-use-older-children<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-19 21:17:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.scmp.com\">www.scmp.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Norway is implementing a near ban on the use of generative AI tools by elementary school pupils and restricting their use in education for older children due to potential negative impacts on learning.<\/li>\n<li>Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Stoere cited the increased risk that young children might skip important educational steps as a reason for the ban.<\/li>\n<li>The move follows a decline in education test scores; the government also banned smartphones in schools in 2024 and has given teachers more power to enforce discipline.<\/li>\n<li>Students aged 6 to 13, from first to seventh grade, are generally prohibited from using AI tools.<\/li>\n<li>Older students aged 14 to 16, in lower secondary school, can cautiously use AI tools under teachers\u2019 supervision.<\/li>\n<li>New standards will be enforced from the new school year beginning in late August.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Norway imposes near AI ban for junior school pupils, curbs use for older children https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/world\/europe\/article\/3357751\/norway-imposes-near-ai-ban-junior-school-pupils-curbs-use-older-children&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":234095,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.i-scmp.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/og_image_scmp_generic\/public\/d8\/images\/canvas\/2026\/06\/20\/814db3cd-719c-4add-a9f8-62f689f0c2b2_f4785efd.jpg?itok=8fZX2Az2&v=1781918251","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[19],"class_list":["post-234094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-generative-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234094"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234094"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234094\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":234096,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234094\/revisions\/234096"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}