A spokesman for Premier Wab Kinew says the province will give an update on its plan for cellphone use in the classroom later this week.
Manitoba became the only western Canadian province that has not introduced plans to restrict cellphones in schools following Saskatchewan's decision last week to ban the use of the devices in the upcoming school year.
Saskatchewan's policy applies to all kindergarten to Grade 12 classrooms, and followed announcements in Alberta, B.C., Quebec, Ontario, and Nova Scotia.
The bans are designed to reduce distractions and help students focus in class.
Manitoba's education department says right now it is up to individual school divisions to develop and enforce technology use policies in their schools.
But in a statement, the department said it is talking to stakeholders "to ensure that provincial curriculum and use-of-technology guidelines are updated to be responsive to current technology-use patterns."
Some school divisions have already imposed their own cellphone bans, including Manitoba's francophone schools division - which includes Laurier's Ecole Jours de Plaines - which banned cellphones last year in all of its schools.
