Phone Usage in Schools: A Given Luxury, or a Deterrent from Learning? As humans progress both psychologically and physically, technology progresses just as fast, or perhaps even faster. Technology has advanced so far as to allow people to talk to a family member, coworker, or even a complete stranger at the touch of a couple of buttons. We can now have a cellular phone and media player in one, four ounce device that fits in the palm of our hands. However, with the progression of media devices comes the danger of teenagers possessing such devices. The threat of teenagers possessing a device capable of communication and browsing the internet is not one to be taken lightly, but one shouldn’t take on this dilemma like they would a nuclear …show more content…
The companies creating these devices were being pressured to increase the bills sent to their customers. The laws involving piracy and illegal downloading became more severe and apparent, and were being enforced in a more serious way. The issue involving cellular devices being allowed in schools is an important one. With technology advancing more and more each day, the amount of resources and tools available to students increase as well. Phone usage in schools, if allowed and monitored correctly, can be vital, and quite valuable to students who are researching for a topic, or communicating in a group project. Most schools use a content blocking program like Content Keeper or IBoss to monitor and block students from browsing inappropriate sites. These programs also affects any device that browses the web using the same WiFi signal. Some teachers at schools also allow students to listen to music while they work, of which do not abuse this privilege by only listening to music when allowed, and not using their media devices for other purposes. As stated by the First Amendment, “Congress shall make no law… abridging the freedom of speech…” (Davidson, 240) Music is a form of freedom speech, both from the artist and the one listening to it. The student listening to it is using the First Amendment and displaying freedom of speech by listening to who they want to listen to. The First Amendment, or the freedom of speech, is an
Although phones may be used to help students with work, North Eugene high school should ban phones because how much of a distraction they can be in a classroom. Schools that have banned phone at school, 82% of students have a phone on at school.(Document #3) If North Eugene at least has a policy with not having students bring the phones in class, that will help with test scores and participation in class. “Students with laptops had a lower test result than those without. The reason? They were not paying attention to their teachers. We should expect the same thing from cell phones.” (Document #6) When using technology at school it may help but there also needs to be an extent to where it needs to stop. Phone are not going to help with our
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.
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.
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
Do you think that a school rule should be changed? Well, I do and I think that the school rule that should be changed is about phones. We should be able to have our phones out during school, don’t you think so? Should children be able to have our phones at school?
Our young adults stay engulfed in their electronic devices that they are not developing the ability to effectively socialize. Youth have been showing signs of psychological issues that never existed before the creation of hand-held electronics or demonstrate signs of problems that related to loosing something substantial and/or meaningful. With this in mind, today’s youth have a countless advantages when they join the working environment due to the fact that they stay proficient at using electronics that they can cling to the way technology outlooks continue to always advance. The young should not have free range of the electronics however. The time and usage should be monitored by their parents or the authority’s in-charge over them. This could benefit the young adults grow-up with a knowledge and understanding of how the usage and abuse can affect young
Regina Jones's “Cell phones in the classroom” is an informational article that explains both sides of the issue of cell phones in the classroom. The idea of cell phones in the classroom has been debated for a long time. Jones discusses that the idea of cell phones in the classroom seems like a beneficial idea, but it has many consequences. Jones does not side with a specific opinion, but rather shows how to properly incorporate the idea given its cons. With the correct procedure, cell phones could be a valuable teaching aid to help kids learn in a contemporary way.
Schools keep telling kids to be safe but when it comes to cell phones they want no part of it. Uf cell phones are the newest way to safety, why not allow students to have cell phones in school? Schools should allow cellphones in schools and classrooms. Although some school officials believe cell phones are a distraction, they actually are a great learning resource. Safety is very important when it comes to cellphones in classrooms they are the most helpful safety feature. Cell phones are also a very helpful resource because when teens have to finish a paper and the teen is on their way home from a trip you can just pull out a phone and finish the paper on the go.
If your are allowed a cell phone in school and you get caught doing something you shouldn't, you could get in trouble. If cell phones weren't allowed in school there wouldn't be problems over the phone. If you have a phone in class it is a distraction from your learning. If your were a teacher would you want your students to have phones. Students would be on their phone while they should be doing homework. As students we go to school for seven hours. In those seven hours there is no reason they need to be on there phone. School is for learning, not looking at a phone.
Joe Thomas thought he was sneaky and could listen to the lesson in class and play on his phone. When homework time came for him, he couldn’t remember anything about the lesson all he could think about was the game. As you know, parents are buying their kids brand new phones. Their education is suffering from the new technology. Every aspect of school is becoming more and more of a challenge because the phones are stealing their attention. Although kids are dependant on them, schools should have a stricter ban on them. Media is making more and more kids distracted, test scores will be higher without the use of cell phones , and they will be able to communicate and socialize with peers much better.
Cell phones are ending up increasingly famous these days, with its easy to use plan and helpful multi-work. Technology has been All around the globe, including elderly and youths, have their own cell phone. The usage of smartphones is very harmful to young children because it affects their learning, social and health.
Every school system always makes a big deal over students using cellphones in class. We always see teachers on their cell phones during the school day and don’t get any repercussion. I agree that students should be allowed during class to have usage of their cell phones. Maybe the student was doing some work from another class that they missed or taking notes on something that’s important for the lesson they had from another class. School systems should ease up on how strict the policy is and allow students to use cell phones during the school day. Students could have ways to allow them to be interactive and participate on the lesson in class from their phones. Students can have different ways to research topics for a report or presentation that they were given. Students might have an emergency or no way to get home and need to call an adult to assist them. There are many ways that cell phones in school are beneficial but let’s sum it down to three reasons.
Technology can have good things and bad things, however teenagers have a habit of believing what is told to them, even if really it is false information. On many websites, random people can write information that they say is ‘true’. According to Mandy Oaklander, “The thing that teenagers are most often attached to, technologically speaking, is their phone. Many young people cannot last mere minutes without their phones. Teenagers are accompanied by their phones in almost every situation: eating dinner with friends, sitting in their desks at school, even going to bed. It seems that teenagers are reliant on their phones for everything they do.” As said in this text it is clearly seen that teenagers do everything with their phone, and worse, they believe what is told to them. technology has a negative effect of the relationships due to the internet breaking teenagers lives
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.
The world is a global village where technologies dominate in people’s lives, particularly that of the millennials. Whether cell phones should be allowed in high school is a heating debate, with both positive and negative effects on the young people. Despite the advantages of mobile phone usage in high school, the demerits seem to overdo the merits. It is, therefore, the role of the government to enforce governing rules and regulations regarding the use of phones in educational institutions where the parents and teachers should ensure that the students strictly follow the given guidelines and if the latter fail to do so, the punishment is provided.