Mobile Phones : An Important Part Of College And University Life

Ding ding. The student’s phone distracting the whole class when he texting back and forth with a friend sitting across from him. Kids each day get more and more addicted to their phones. Electronics even affect kids grades. Children each day are getting chained to their phones; therefore their grades are dropping. The generation of cell phones has greatly affected us humans because children in school can be on their phones watching the next best thing while a class is going on, it is distracting the kids around them and themselves. The more cell phones that are allowed in school the more children are on their phone letting their grades drop because they are distracting themself and others. The students seem happy with their cell phones, but cell phones in school is defective —there was a problem.“It found that following a ban on phone use, the school's' test scores improved by 6.4%. The impact on underachieving students was much more significant -- their average test scores rose by 14%” (Kottasova). Cell Phones in school is superfluous because keeping students distracted can lead them to flunking their tests, can cause cyber-bullying to increase, and cheating on other test which can lead to getting in trouble.

One major problem with mobile technology in classrooms is the distraction they create. Just as these devices allow students access to a mind-blowing amount of information, they allow for an equal amount of distractions to get in the way of their education. Sit in the back of any class and one will see students browsing social media sites, checking up on their fantasy leagues, shopping, reading random blogs, and watching videos on YouTube or movies on Netflix instead of taking notes or working on whatever assignment the instructor assigned. Increasingly in educational settings where students are given free access to their devices this behavior is the norm, particularly in universities (Lam & Tong, 2012). As a result, students who use their

Sylvia McDonald’s “The effects and predictor value of in-class texting behavior on final course grades” discusses the negative correlation between cell phone use in schools and final grades through research, examples, and charts. McDonald states that while cell phones can be an excellent form of communication, they can oftentimes be a very big distraction. Studies were given to further support the argument. The researchers conducted a study that included three different colleges, all with different cell phone policies. The results of the study were very self evident. The study showed a negative correlation between the cell phone policy and the test average. The college with the most lenient policy tended to have the lowest test score. Overall, the author explains the relevance of cell phone use and how much of a

1. Froese, A. D., Carpenter, C. N., Inman, D. A., Schooley, J. R., Barnes, R. B., Brecht,P. W., & Chacon, J. D. (2012). Effects of classroom cellphone use on expected and actual learning. College Student Journal, 46(2), 323-332.

According to Lenhart, in 2012 three quarters of teens, ages 12-17, owned cell phones. Of those teens, twenty three percent of them indicated they possessed a smartphone. With the technology advancing in cell phones, it has become yet another classroom distraction and a serious concern for cheating. With cell phones on hand, it has created an easy way to become distracted during class. Assistant Professor Campbell from the University of Kansas brought to attention, “one study found that a third of university students in the US play video games on their mobile phones and laptops during class (Gilroy, 2004 as cited in Katz, 2005).” The majority of researchers have found that mobile phones have lead to problematic use in the school environment

College students own a computer or smartphone, a more compact and mobile version of a computer, or both. Thanks to the mobility of smartphones that makes them ubiquitous, accessing the internet is effortless. Frequently, I notice students dotting all over the campus interacting with their smartphones. In his book, “Smarter Than You Think,” Clive Thompson states, “Our tools are everywhere, linked with our minds, working in tandem (p. 347).” In other words, we are likely to be using our computers whenever we have a chance. In particular, students from my writing class opt to use their smartphones during our short ten-minute break. For instance, sharing a similar experience, the author of “Is Google Making Us Stupid?,” Nicholas Carr says he is likely to use a computer when he is not working (par. 3). In brief, smartphones

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

First instinct, the first reaction, the first thought is something everyone experiences when something happens in a matter of seconds and was not expected. On a sunny day in Arizona, a class full of students begin their day ready to learn. Unexpectedly, a fight break loose, our teacher’s first reaction was to go get help. She ran out of the classroom looking for help. I couldn’t help but notice that the first reaction of my classmates was to pull out their phones and start recording. It is crazy to think that in an unexpected situation the mind of twenty-five teenagers their first instinct and reaction was to take out their cell phones.

One of every ten students around the world has symptoms cell phone addiction, and 68.8% of all students believe in the adverse effects of cell phones (Al-Barashdi 2015). Cell phones are an everyday tool that just about every college student in the United States owns. Cell phones are extremely useful in many regards, but very disadvantageous in others. U.S. college students, once studied from an anthropological standpoint, can provide important facts about how human beings are responding to technological advances in cell phones. My study centers on one overarching question: how do U.S. university students use their cell phones?

The article “How To Get Students To Stop Using Their Cellphones In Class”, written by Anya Kamenetz. covers the idea that several students’ own cellphones. In general, when they are awake, they approximatively use them eight to 10 hours a day and check them an average of every 15 to 20 minutes. Afterward, a professor at the University of Colorado conclude after observation that the use of the cellphone in a class period causes of distraction, lower level of sleep and lower grade. Another group of professor come up with the same notification that more than 75 percent of undergrads reported texting while in class, and that in-class texting has a negative impact on their grade. In order to help the students to understand

Studies shows that if a student has access to a smartphone, they will most likely use it for distracting purposes, rather than to actually learn. In the article “Smartphones Do Not Benefit Classroom Learning,” the author states, “Cell phones may be conduits for information, but they're also tools of mass distraction. Texting, tweeting, surfing and updating your online profile have nothing to do with learning and no place in the classroom. Yet it's even become commonplace for parents to text their children during school hours.” This ties back in to the idea of addiction. Students are addicted, and they must get their fix even during class. Throughout most of high school, and college, I would use my phone to send text messages or update my Twitter. I even knew that I should be paying attention; however, I placed my smartphone above my education. Thankfully, I am smart enough to dig myself out of any bad grades; however, not all students are. If schools can find a way to force students to use their smartphones for educational purposes only, they can certainly increase the education rate. It is evident that students love smartphones. No matter why they use them, they are constantly on them. The main idea here is if we can harbor that love for smartphones, and direct it to educational use, then smartphones will prove to be a necessity for all schools. Clearly, the

Call 911! If someone is in an emergency, no one wouldn’t go to look for a pay phone on a street in this era. Even if they looked for, it would be extremely hard to get one. Cell phone is the item which one person has at least one now. When I found myself in the middle school, I got my first cell phone, and it wasn’t that everyone has. In fact, none of my friend had one, therefore, there were no rules of cell phone use on the campus. At the time, the cell phone was only for the call. We weren’t able to play games or search online. But the situation is not really same in this environment anymore since all teens have their own cell phone with them all the time. Some schools completely ban cell phone on campus, and they will take away from them if they find them. My high school was one of them. If teachers found students used cell phone, they took away and called us after school. Some teachers didn’t give them back to students, then they called their parents to pick it up. Banning cell phone in schools for teens is unfit in this high technology era since we are not be able to find a pay phone on the streets anymore.

Unfortunately, cell phones have become one of the biggest challenges instructors face in college classrooms as these devices have become a pervasive part of young people's lives. What used to only make phone calls and send text messages, now does our emailing, sends us Facebook and Snapchat notifications, and plays music. Additionally, our cell phones are not only used for personal activities, but for school and work life. We want to be reachable in case of an emergency, but the constant stream of notifications has led our productivity to significantly tumble down. Recently, I noticed that in many of my classes, even though the professor says there is a “no phone” policy, many students are scrolling through their social media feeds or responding to a text rather than paying attention to the lecture of the day. I admit to using my phone constantly during class, which often has led my grades to suffer poorly. Rather than paying attention to the lesson, I was checking on buzzing notifications of entertainment news and random trivia. Because I was not listening to my professor earlier in the day, I had a difficult time trying to complete the homework assignment. Thus, in an attempt to be epistemic temperate, for the last two days, I tried to not use my phone during class lectures and study time to measure my productivity.

In Tamara Brenner’s article, “The Use of Mobile Devices in the College Classroom”, she stresses that the use of cell phones is distracting in a college classroom setting. This article was published by the Bok Center by Harvard University. Brenner has a PhD in biochemistry and molecular biology, and taught undergraduate life science classes at Harvard. Today’s day and age is almost completely dependent on technology. Teenagers and students today have a completely new problem to deal with as far as how to balance cell phone time and lecture time in classrooms. Anybody in a college classroom setting should pay attention to what is in this article, especially students and teachers. Brenner uses strong studies and research papers to inform the reader about the issue as well as looks at all sides of the argument on how distracting mobile devices are in the college classroom.

From those figures above, we can see that students are facing a problem that they spend a lot of time for their mobiles and mostly for entertaining than learning. The third figures reflects attitude of students towards this situation and surprisingly, there is a contradiction. Students seem to realize their bad habit. More than a half of them admitted that the minus point when using mobile phone can lead to