Cellphone Censorship

In Susan Campbelle article, she tells her audience that today children who have access to cellphones are using it for inappropriate use. She argues that children believes that “Cellphones are the most important thing in the world” (1) She then tells us a story of a ten year old boy and how his parents deal with his addiction of cellphones usage. The article works primarily around the kids and parents that the author interviews and quotes that, “Children are using their cellphones inappropriate nowadays. I will use this essay in order to contextualize my argument about why cellphones

In this article entitled “Why Cellphones should not be Allowed in a School Setting,” the author claims that having or using cellphones has become a growing epidemic nowadays, and schools try to restrict the usage of the phones by imposing authentic rules, which is very beneficial to the students.

The dynamism in the world has enabled the technological field to grow immensely. The change in innovation has enabled individuals to create numerous extraordinary developments, for instance, cell phones (McDonald 34). Cell phones have become a substantial part in student’s lives. The behavior associated with cell phone has shifted from it being helpful to now being a nuisance for students and teachers (Haverila 315). Despite advantages of cell phones, it has caused severe negative impacts to students in schools below the age of 17 such as facilitating disobedience and disrespect to their teacher's orders during classes.

Post inception of the cell phone has fueled a shift in the civility of adolescent social interaction. Gone are the days of seeing teenagers imaginatively playing alongside each other with the only restriction being his or her ability to effectively communicate. Virtual conversations, text messages and online social networks have replaced development of social skills through personal interactions. Some educators insist that cell phones provide a unique opportunity to capitalize on the learning experience in the modern classroom. Unfortunately, cell phones also provide an opportunity for adolescents to compromise their ethical values and moral standards. Adolescents are known to be source for cheating on exams, disrupting the classroom, and

“Put down the phone, turn off the laptop, and do something-anything-that doesn’t involve a screen” (Twenge 63). It is astonishing the amount of time teens spend on phones. Jean Twenge discusses the negative effects smartphone usage has created among the young and past generations in the article, “Has the Smartphone Destroyed a Generation”. The purpose of Twenge’s article is to aware readers about the many issues the smartphone usage has created on generations. Twenge narrates different stories about young teen’s experiences with phones and social media. Twenge also provides readers with statistics and some studies of many effects caused by smartphones. Twenge gives emphasize to differences between generations. According to Twenge, today’s

Today Teenagers of the world have a new addiction. This new addiction is known as smartphones. Teenagers between 15&17 nowadays are using smartphones without limits. Everywhere you turn you see teens bending down or swiping or clicking their phones screen or sleeping with their smartphones under the pillow. Day after day smartphones are becoming more central to teenagers lives. A smartphone could be well-defines as a portable phone that has additional functions parallel to personal digital assistance devices. Smartphones simplify communication and offer fast and easy access to almost every single information needed in teens everyday life. But the fact the smartphones took place over other devices such as cameras, clocks, library books, and computer games make them more and more important, which also makes teens dependent to them. The benefits could be severely undermined if mishandling and over use are not kept in check and under controlled. Although older teenagers would disagree their use of smartphone should be monitored by parents, because smartphone are distracting teenagers, causing them health problems, in addition to encouraging them sexually.

Students throughout Traughber have been continuously trying to earn the privilege to use our cell phones in the cafeteria, and now we have to demand our satisfaction from the school board. This proposal's objective is not to make the school look like a prison because of the current policy, but to show how Traughber would benefit from loosening the restrictions on cell phone usage during non educational-periods. Traughber Junior High students were interviewed on March 9th, 2016, and it was discovered that 95% of the participating students had a cell phone. Adolescents are obsessed with their cell phones, and they are so preoccupied that it causes trouble in classrooms across the school. As a seventh grader who does use a cell phone, this writer has to admit that he could cut back on how much he uses it, but other students are so attached that they can not even put down their phone. Traughber needs a policy that can resolve these issues. Cell phones should be allowed in school during non-educational periods because they will fix many of

Many people believe that bringing cell phones to school may cause distractions. However, a recent study leads more and more people to believe that mobile phones could in fact be a “powerful learning tool” (Docksai), serving as a mobile computer ("Cell Phones in the Classroom” ). Elizabeth Hartnell- Young, a research fellow from the University of Nottingham tracked 331 students from 14 to 16 years old, for learning through cell phones. They used cell phones to make short videos, set homework reminders, record poems, and transfer files from home to school (Docksai). Students described their learning experience as “motivated” (Docksai). Many experts pointed out that students have a “deep comfort level” with mobile phones (Docksai). In other words, students could learn more if they enjoyed what they were doing. An increasing number of teachers have changed their point of view towards cell phones, many now believe that cell phones would exert positive effects on education. For example, some teachers have already started to collect homework online and answer questions through text- messaging. A school in Saskatchewan encouraged students to read and share thoughts about books through their cell phones (Docksai). Furthermore, according to a recent survey, the majority of students could refrain from using cell phones and not be distracted by them in class. In fact, over 71% of students didn’t

The use of cell phones in school was the topic of Alessandra's investigative journalism piece. She utilized the mentor texts provided in class as models for her writing and included on-line research to support her topic. The article included the pros and cons of student cell phone use. Alessandra's reflection of her writing is that she struggles finding the best way to conclude her pieces. We have lessons in the upcoming unit that will help her feel more successful.

The next topic of discussion is cell phones in classrooms. The article being summarized is entitled The Only Thing We Have to Fear is…120 Characters. In this article, Kevin Thomas and Christy McGee (2012) make arguments for the use of cellphones in classrooms in spite of the fact that 69% have banned them. This paper responds to the many reasons for disallowing their use, and then it goes on to highlight some ideas about why cell phones should be used as educational tools. Both sides of the discussion certainly make valid points.

Recent studies suggest that cell phones have evolved into something more than a simple communication tool, gaining its own place in various aspects of social interaction. For instance, a qualitative study on Australian adolescents revealed that cell phones play an integral part in the lives of young Australians (Walsh, White, & Ross, 2008). Some of the participants in the study reported very strong attachment to their cell phones; they felt as though their cell phones were part of them.

Cell phones play an integral role in our lives, and we conduct many useful functions through them daily. If a mother wants to inform her kids that she would be late to pick them up from their school, the cell phone would provide a good medium to communicate that message. The cutting-edge technology of cell phones at your fingertips is a very powerful device that can be used to connect with people from all around the world, and it can also save lives as well in emergency situations. However, public institutions such as schools and libraries have gotten to the point where cell phones have become a major controversial issue. Improper cellular usage by the youth mainly caused this. Not just the youth, but adults too

Mobile phones are an entertainment source for many. As well as holding music files, as some phones today are able to do, it will work with a home entertainment system to find programmes of similar interest to files already on the phone and download them as a podcast. The Mobile Life Youth Report, one of the biggest ever social studies to examine how mobile phones have changed the way young people live, was published on 19 September 2008 by the London School of Economics and Political Science. The report discusses how the intimate relationship between user and phone is most pronounced among teenagers, who regard their mobiles as an expression of their identity. "Texting is often used for apologies, to excuse lateness or to communicate other things that make us uncomfortable," the report says. "It offers intimacy of a particularly controlled form, useful for its discretion ... but valued by those who find it difficult to express their emotions more discursively." (19 September, 2008). This is partly because mobiles, unlike landlines, are seen as being beyond the control of parents. But the researchers suggest that another reason may be that mobiles, especially text messaging, were seen as

Did you know that cellphone are popularized suddenly in recent Africa? According to “Pew Research Center,” there are only one-in-ten people had a mobile phone in Tanzania, Uganda, Kennya and Ghana in 2002. However, the number of people who have a cellphone is growing, and cellphone ownership become common today even two percent of them had landline phone. In the research, they use cellphone for sending massages, taking a picture or video, making or receiving payments, getting a political news, and other ways. As the condition of Africa, people live a comfortable life with cellphones, computers, iPads, iPhones, tablets, and many digital devices as usual. In addition, the number of people who use digital devices is increasing gradually. For example, according to “Generation M2: Media in the Lives of 8- to 18-Year-Olds,” even 31 percent of eight years old to ten years old have own cellphone in the U.S. In the case of fifteen to eighteen years old, 85 percent of them have their own cellphone. In addition, the average of using entertainment media is 7 hours and 38 minutes per a day, and they use much time for texting, calling, playing games, and so on. These researches shows us how big number of child use digital media. When children use them, some people might feel anxiety as “The digital media must affects students badly.” However, this hypothesis is incorrect. Actually, students need to use digital media because using digital media has

According to educators, young people and students in particular are bearing the brunt of exposure to cell phones, mainly because students lack the self-control. In other words, students are lacking in self discipline; therefore, when they are exposed to cell phone, which is typically renowned for timely response, low cost and abundant resources, they will lose control and get addicted to various activities. For instance, some students will keep chatting with others, while others may be busy taking selfies. Alternatively, some will try out some video games or online books and fail to give them up ever since then. As a result, their learning process and outcomes will be seriously influenced. Apparently, students’ common personal traits which is characterized by the weak self control is closely related and effective in convincing people that their usage of cell phone in the school shall not be allowed. As suggested by Katherine Martinko in her article, school is the all-important purpose for students; therefore, it is