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What's in your child's school bag?

If you have got a mobile phone, there's just so many lovely things you can do with a phone! And because children are really social and peers really matter, [a phone] is the device that really matters.

Tom Bennett.

Children are carrying an increasing amount of technology with them to school, including smartphones, laptops and tablets. A new survey estimates a fifth of pupils will have gadgets worth more than £400 in their bags this autumn.

But are electronic gadgets an education aid or a distraction?

We put the question to government advisor Tom Bennett.

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