There are many pros and cons to social media so I am indifferent about this topic. Some pros of social media is that it helps with communication with people from long distances and it's also good for advertising. Some cons are it brings about cyberbullying and it’s really time consuming. These are some reasons why I am indifferent about social media. Social media has changed communication in a whole different way. From facebook to snapchat and so many others, social media has made it extremely
in school? I think that not only students should be allowed to use them, but required to use them. First of all, students may use cellphones to contact family and friends. A student can call home and ask a parent or other family member to bring him or her some thing they have forgotten. Often, students forget to bring their homework. So, if the student has a cellphone, they can call their parents and ask them to bring it to school for them. Sometimes, children get sick during school. The student
Cellphones in class By: Easton Stackis Have you ever wanted to use cellphones in school? Cell phones have many benefits and positive uses that help students during school a lot. Although cell phones can be distracting they should be allowed in school in case of an emergency, to teach responsibility, and to help in school like homework and research. Cell phones are very helpful in emergencies. With cell phones, parents know if their children alright in an emergency. Which takes a lot of
Cell Phones: Pro vs. Con Cell phones have come a long way since April 3, 1973 when the first phone was invented. The first call in history was made that day by Motorola employee Martin Cooper, as he stood next to a 900 MHz base station in New York City and phoned to the headquarters of Bell Labs in New Jersey (The Cellphone Turns 40: Remembering Martin Cooper’s Historic Call). Since that day, cell phones have evolved to become what is now a all-in-one master piece. A current cell phone removes the
experienced users of the new technologies that are often unknown to adults. The generation of people that grew up in the digital era are multitasking, used to communicate and play through media. Louise Katz in “Today’s Lesson: Life in the Classroom Before Cellphones,” experiments on her class of students the benefit of being for a while without technologies and learning to focus purely on the lesson. In fact using the smartphone in class can be extremely distracting and it can lead to the failure of the class
represent the older portion of the nation; the ones who are new to technology. Digital natives are the younger generations; the ones who were born into the technology-savvy era. By splitting the nation into two sections, Iverson allowed each argument, pro-texting and anti-texting, to be respectable since there are valid reasons for both. Moore also included a rebuttal from Bella Ellwood-Clayton who stated that texting is a “nonthreatening way to initiate communication” (173). For people who have a shy
Although cellphones have made telecommunication easier, there should be more strict regulations in cellphone user among students, and drivers. Over years, studies have revealed that there are certain statistics of the population, teenagers and adults, by a mass of number, regarding the use of cell phones that they are no more conscious of what is going on around them. “Studies found out that more than 90 percent of students admit to using their devices for non-class activities during class times
Nowadays, the majority of the world’s population owns a cellphone, but with the capabilities and resources this has allowed us there have been fears over potential hazards caused by this new technology, the most common theory being that heavy cellphone usage causes cancer. But are such fears rational? Various reports and scientific studies have produced a range of findings over the years. It seems with a lack of verifiable research, we’ve lacked a concrete answer. Recent scientific studies have
hospitals, but one place they are not welcome are schools. Cell phones should allowed in schools. Cell phones are used by around third of the population. With teenagers being a very big percent of the people who have cellphones, why aren’t cell phones allowed in schools. Cellphones phones are used in case of emergencies. Seventy percent of all 911 calls are from a cell phone. Emergencies usually happen out of no where so being able to call for help is a vital asset. Ten to twenty percent of child
more is prison guards not “seeing” the problems happening. In a case in Georgia, there was a picture that got out of an inmate being abused. Somehow an inmate got a contraband cellphone, took the picture and sent it out. The guards ignored the abuse that was happening and focused more on how a prisoner snuck in a cellphone and wanted to figure out how to get the phone. The higher up officials where more worried about the public reaction than they where about the abuse that was going on to the inmates