Victoria Okoronkwo English 1302.6200 Professor Cooper July 17, 2013 Cell phones or Distractions Imagine sitting with popcorn in hand on the comfy theater seats enjoying Despicable Me 2 with a couple of friends on a Friday night. Suddenly a loud and obnoxious ring tone played and it took forever for the owner to shut it off. This has now caused everyone to miss some of the movie. Ring tones and bright screens when one is texting destroys the movie watching atmosphere that others pay up to $10 to watch. There should be a blocking device for cell phones to receive and send text messages or calls in the following places including theaters, restaurants, and classrooms. Being on one’s phone in a movie theater is not just …show more content…
Restaurant cell phone bans aren’t new. Dating back to 1999, British chef Gordon Ramsay told the New York Times that “nothing infuriates me more than delivering an appetizer to the table and seeing someone on the phone.” Not only does it bother the other fellow restaurant diners, but it also bothers the chef too. Some may even claim to “tip well” to restaurants that don’t have the cell phone policy. Although that could bring money in to the business, customers who like to enjoy their meal without someone talking on the phone wouldn’t come back making the restaurant lose money as well. When students get bored or don’t feel like doing the assignment they turn to their phones to help them escape from boredom. Then later the homework comes or tests that they don’t understand and fail because one was not paying attention when it was being explained. A student with a phone during class becomes distracted and would rather worry about who said what on Twitter then one’s own education. Some students wonder why they struggle. Well, this is obviously one of the causes. At the end of the term students often fail their classes and would drop out of school (Cassidy). Parents think cell phones are a way to contact students in the time of an emergency, but when was the last time that one genuinely called for immediate phone calls to a child. If a parent urgently needed to contact their child they could call the main
There are benefits of having cell phones banned in private businesses. Perhaps this would cause more social interaction, preventing social media at a family dinner. It could also stop rude interruptions that come with phone calls and texts. But denying someone the use of their cell phone is, or is approaching, infringement on the rights of the consumer. How much would the
Personal cell phones need to be silenced during working hours and only used for emergencies.
Cell phones are a huge part of our generation, but the problem with them is that people are getting hurt because of them, which is not okay. One of these issues is texting and walking. It should be banned because it’s causing serious accidents, laws are changing people’s behavior for the good, and it’s affecting all age groups.
Driving with a cell phone is a terrible idea! When someone drives with a cell phone it can cause them to get distracted. When they drive with it there reaction time becomes a lot slower than normal. Without cell phones there are still many other things to distract so why have another distraction? In other words driving with a cellphone in hand is not the best thing to be doing.
In today’s world Social media and texting are a big thing. People are on their smartphones constantly and not paying attention to what they are doing. People need to just leave their cell phone alone until they get where they are going. It would be safer for everyone.
Many students have used their cell phones to share answers to tests and quizzes, and to report inaccurate and offensive information about other students and their school. Cell phones can be distractions in the school environment, evading classroom time and reducing student’s academic success.
Have you ever heard of the gruesome Columbine High School massacre? This incident occurred on April 20th 1999 and involved two students embarking on a shooting rampage, killing twelve students, a teacher and wounding twenty three others. Unfortunately during this incident, the school 's most easily accessible phone was on the complete other side of the school in the library. Perhaps some of these lives could have been saved if the students in this class had cell phones that they could 've used to contact the authorities more quickly. The issue we are addressing today is the usage of cellular devices in educational facilities. Both Cameron and myself believe that cell phone usage is of extreme convenience, and has academically beneficial
One problem with cell phones in today’s society is that they have become major distractions. Cell phones are distracting employees in the workplace and are leaving them with their jobs halfway done. Everywhere in the business industries, the employees are hard at work re-tweeting and catching up on the latest newsfeed rather than managing their time more wisely. Not only are cell phones a distraction in the workplace, they are also a distraction and disruptive in school districts, causing students’ attention to be elsewhere. Many students would rather text in the middle of class instead of pay attention to what the teacher is reviewing. In this case, students do not gain the amount of education provided for them. In addition to cell phones being distracting, people often like to multi-task by walking or driving while texting. These things cause them to be unaware of their surroundings. Texting while driving has become a major issue because texting and driving can lead to car crashes which are often fatal. On the other hand, texting and walking isn’t too bad, but can cause a little bit of embarrassment. There are stories of people walking into walls and bumping into people or tripping over a table because their nose seems to be stuck in their phone. To some, being on their cell phone is more important than grades, clients, and others around them.
People all around the world have many electronic devices, and there are abundant amounts of freedom that come with them. There are so many different technologies to choose from, but one that seems to be quite common among people of all ages, are cell phones. Such technology is great for many uses, but it is not always appropriate in certain settings. The principal at my school has adopted a new policy that bans the use of cell phones during school hours. I support my principal’s decision. Cell phones can be distractions in many ways to students during school. They can cause conflicts between fellow students and between students and teachers. Allowing cell phones during school hours also basically gives students permission to not pay
Its hard to enforce this law because if all phone usage is restricted its hard for police to find people actually using their phones, because they could just be looking at their GPS or changing the station on their radio. I think it would be hard to break the habit of people getting on their phones, but with time and commitment it could help.
Many teachers believe that cell phones don’t belong in a classroom because there are several disadvantages. An example maybe a student who uses a cell phone in class has no intension in listening or paying attention to the teacher. This student has a short attention span who cares about socializing more than his/her education. Cell phones can be very disruptive; they can invade people’s privacy and can also be used as harassment or bullying. The usage of cell phones is creating a huge problem particularly when they are used in school.
Cell phones can be such a big distraction that it can take away from kids education.
Cell phones and technology in general has advanced a lot over the last ten years. Allowing students to be able to take their phones or devices wherever they want in today’s society. Thus bringing forward the issue of cell phone distraction in the classroom.
In school majority of the students use their cell phones in class and they don’t pay attention to the subject their working.Many fail classes because students are too busy texting or on facebook. It’s really sad how technology can change studying and how grades go down. Students in Middle School use cell phones very often that they don't even pay attention to their teachers lecturing. Students even make new friends by facebook that they forget their real friends. Students think texting is something important to do but really it seems just a waste of time.Students should spend more time in paying attention in school of being texting or on facebook.Parents should not be buying their kids cell phones because its bad for their studying.They should have phones till they are in high school not middle school because they don't know how to handle it and in high
Secondly, it is no doubt that using mobile phones in campuses has many advantages. One reason is that using mobile phones in schools provide a new platform for education systems similarly as laptops, desktops and personal digital assistant (Rankin, 2008). Use mobile phones may help people to download power point slides, take notes, share ideas with others by Bluetooth and research questions on web side etc. Moreover mobile phones are used to check class schedules or take quizzes on the way to schools (Kharif 2008). The other reason is that students may have a good communication with their parents by using mobile phones during school time even for emergency situations. There is two third of parents contact their children during campus time, mainly to awoke them of medical appointments or other commitments. (Beattie, 2009) Consequently, students should be encouraged bring mobile phones to school.