Mike Cronin's Rude Texting Students

From personal experience, I can say that high school students are going to have cell phones in class regardless of the punishments associated with getting caught; the main reason is that they seldom get caught. With one teacher and roughly thirty students, it is easy to sneak by the teacher’s gaze and send a text message here or there or find the score to the big game that you missed. Michael Rich, pediatrician and media expert, says, “Pandora’s box is open here… What we need to do is take control of them instead of them control us” (Teachers vs. Texting). To help reduce these disruptions from occurring, we need to incorporate cell phones into high school classroom with the other technologies to promote interactive and kinesthetic learning.

Texting in class is a very touchy subject, and can be argued from many different aspects. One of the main things though, is that texting in class would not be disruptive just for the student texting, but also to the students sitting around the student that is doing the texting. In this today’s generation, everywhere around us people of all ages and cultures circle around their cell phones in everything they do. Whether we are walking down the road, in the grocery style, in class, or even much dangerously, in driving, cell phones have grown to be a very vital part of our everyday lives. However, when it comes to cell phones and texting in the classroom, a very controversial answer is given between teachers and students. Students say they

First, I believe this because students can get easily distracted by phones. Students don’t pay much attention to the teacher’s lesson and are disturbed by all the notifications they receive. Some examples of how they can get distracted are social media such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat etc. Texting in class can also get students easily distracted from school work. Students tend to lack amount of sleep since they stay on their phone for most of the night.

Please do not use cell phone to text during class as it distracts other students.

Our teachers are supposed to be our role models, shouldn't they know more? To make it easier in life we all should be able to use cell phones in class. Some people ask themselves, "If cell phones are to keep in touch with your buddies, then what is recess for?” Yes, recess is a chance where you and your peers socialize, but in class don't you need to ask your buddy questions that you don’t understand?- (ie. math problems, homework and etc… ), but at the same time you don't want to be rude and yell their name out loud and disturb other students from working. So, using a cell phone to text message is a great idea to keep in contact with your friends.

Hmm, phones in the classroom! What do you think? That is a debate between billions of people in the world today. Children all over the world have phones, but they can not have them out during school hours. Cell phones are important to so many kids and adults. These devices have been around for so long, and many people can not live without them. All around the school campus, students are miserable without their phones. In the world today, about three-fourths of the U.S. population have phones. A cell phone is an important thing to some people. Without cell phones, kids wouldn't have access to their social media accounts like Snapchat, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and more. So take this into consideration, even if it is in one class, students should be allowed to get on their cell phones during school hours.

Personally, I believe that texting is disruptive in class. On the other hand, respect goes both ways. The video didn’t state what the professor’s policy on texting was, but destroying someone else’s property is a bit too much. The professor could have just confiscated the cell phone and returned the cell phone when a parent was present. An article starts with the mention “of a video showing a sheriff’s deputy body-slamming a South Carolina high school student over her use of a cellphone in class.” (Gerson, 2015). Disruption is a problem, but using violence is not the answer. Gerson wrote of different ways that some instructors are dealing with the usage of cell phones in class. One comment was that establishing policies that respected

First of all, you may even use a phone to text, tweet or go online during class. About 90 percent of teens with cell phones send texts. Unfortunately, kicking the habit of using cellphones and other mobile devices in class can be a hard. If you’re like most kids these days, you use a smartphone, and you use it often. Additionally, the Pew report shows, 92 percent of teens go online daily. In the United States, 73 percent of teens own or have access to a smartphone and 12 percent have no cell phone. The typical number is 30 texts per day. Those numbers come from a 2015 survey by the Pew Research Center in Washington, DC. But too much tech time at school for things other than classwork can cost you, new studies show.

Being on a cellular device in class is a sign of disrespect, it tells the teachers that the student either doesn’t care enough to pay attention or that they’re just being rude. Even from an education stand point, studies show through classes that grammar and spelling are going downhill; the slang used for texting has come across in homework assignments, and has also become an easy access for cheating. A social standpoint can be brought into this argument as well. Students are becoming extremely comfortable with emailing their instructor if they have a question or having troubles in class, instead of having the confidence to see the teacher in person. In an educational setting this may not seem like such a major setback. But how will that continue on in their later lives if that is a habit that has been picked up early on?

The majority of students are distracted by the use of smartphones in lecture. Most of them see there is a major problem with using them in class. Many students have a cell phone. The majority of students bring their phones to lecture. In addition, students send at least one text message a class and some send more than others. Also, some students have seen their peer’s text in class. This distracts the student from what the professor is teaching but also distracts other students nearby. Most students have agreed that texting distracts students nearby. When you see other students nearby texting or using their phone, it makes you want to take out your phone. If you have multiple students using their phone during a lecture, this can cause more

Did you know that 90% of high school students text during class? It’s become a huge issue in recent years. I believe that texting in class is a bad idea.

When analyzing the article at first glance, I immediately pertained the dilemma of texting in the classroom as a problem for many students. However, I presume this dilemma only relevant to students who are given the opportunity to text in class. Whereas, professor prohibiting cellphones in class are inclined to have a student body focused on the discussion rather than worrying about their previous phone conversation.

The ringing of the phone during the class time will distract the other students, and it makes them perform poorer on the test as well as those who were texting during the study. Fang-Yi Flora Wei, assistant professor of broadcast communications at the University of Pittsburgh at Bradford, says “Now we see that in-class texting partially interferes with a student’s ability to pay attention, which prior studies show is necessary for effective cognitive learning.” (Lsmith12@mlive.com, Leanne Smith). And the result of this articles showed students who usually send and receive texts during the class time often have a hard time paying attention and understand to the lectures well, so students who replied to messages relevant to class material scored lower on multiple choice tests than students who are

The article Through Questions on Texting in the Classrooms discusses and answers the questions that haven’t been answered about texting during class time. This topic is somehow major because after completing a survey, “98% of the students … texted some time during the term.” Speaking of myself, I can not multitask, this means that if I text during class time or any other place, my ears automatically shut and creates a barrier that I am currently not in the place I am at. On the other hand, this is something that I have to learn to love because I am a person that accepts reality and have to survive with this cause.

Many students will play on their phones and not pay attention to the teacher and the lesson that the teacher is giving. Students are sent to school to learn and by playing with cell phones during classes students are not learning anything that will help them with a career or their futures. Students can also text friends in other classrooms and not have their minds in the classroom that they are in. Students may eventually stop coming to school because they can just stay home and use their cell phones and do other things.