Texting In The Classroom Analysis

The psychology. Eliza Martinez advocated the use of cellphones for texting while student are in class can cause disrupt in teen. In her article "How Texting Affect How Teens Do In School " she said that sometimes the sounds of classmates texting, or receiving texts during the class can disrupt others students making them miss information that they may need in the coming classes. They should let the phones in safe places at school to avoid disruption noise (Par4). her words speak to student who do not have their phones in silence, and students who like to text during the class. Most of the time in class is truly important to pay attention keeping the phone in silence or other place where student can not text in class would help teen to have a better concentration.

Texting has fast become the preferred form of communication for young adults; however, students need to be dissuaded from texting during class because of the result in loss of valuable class time, lack of effective communication skills, and consistent use of improper English leading to a negative impact on students’ learning.

In the article, “OMG! Texting in Class = U Fail :( Empirical Evidence That Text Messaging During Class Disrupts Comprehension”, Amanda C. Gingerich and Tara T. Lineweaver use two experiments to prove that texting during class hinders overall comprehension and confidence over the material. In the article, published by Society for the Teaching of Psychology, Gingerich and Lineweaver imply that their hypothesis is for texting in class to lower comprehension of the lecture material.

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

Katie Hafner’s article, “Texting May Be Taking a Toll,” displays that the rising number of texts sent by adolescents day in and day out is starting to take a big toll on them, their lifestyle, and the people around them. To start off, in the first part of the article Hafner expresses that the point of the first section is that with a growing number of young people utilizing texting and using it nonstop texting is causing serious issues such as anxiety, failing grades, distraction in school, sleep issues and many others. The author exclaims in the section that, “The phenomenon is beginning to worry physicians and psychologists, who say it is leading to anxiety distraction in school, falling grades, repetitive stress injury and sleep deprivation.”

Teenagers must consider the importance of being concentrated when studying. Otherwise, we won’t be able to learn in a good way. Things are done in a better way if we do them each at a time. Most of the effects of cellphone messaging on teenagers may be negative due to the fact that they’re used just to chat and gossip and not for important stuff, as used by adults. When a teacher is giving a new class, we may be distracted by a text massage. If we don’t pay attention, more probably, we’ll get a low grade on the next quiz. But that does not only represents a bad grade, but an emptiness in the student’s memory because he might have lost or misunderstood a concept that may be important to comprehend further theories or themes. Text messaging may also become a vice, and anyone could even become an addict. Some teenagers

Most student will get in trouble for texting in class while class is in session. I remember a time when I gotten my phone taking away for two weeks because I was texting my friend and not focus on the assignment that my teacher was explaining to the class. I was grounded for a week and couldn’t call my friend of text him for two weeks, but is that better than dying in a car crash because I was texting and driving. Driving and talk on the phone is bad enough, but why is texting a bigger problem in the world. Is it because there’s more accidents because of texting on the phone. It can be worst then drunk driving, or it can influence children to text and drive. Texting on the phone while driving should be banned in the United States to keep this country safe from ambitious drivers.

With technology rife in today’s society are the boundaries between spoken and written language becoming ever nearer? It seems that young children, teenagers, adults and even the elderly are all turning to mobile devices as an aid of communication. The frequent use of texting has brought about new features, such as clipping, that are unique to the texting world, this is thought to be putting a strain on our abilities to use correct Standard English. In this essay I will explore the variety of language and text specific features used within text messaging. I will also analyse the various attitudes towards texting and finally give my own opinion.

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.

I think that the teachers should let phones be prohibited in the classrooms because the teachers never know what maybe into why we need our phones in the classroom and i feel like the teachers need to let us have our phones in the classroom so we can get in touch with whom every we need to get in touch with and the phone policy should always be prohibited in our classrooms.

“Text Messaging is just the most recent focus of people anxiety; what people are really worried about is a new generation gaining control of what they see as their language”—David Crystal.

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.

Recently, group texting has become an excellent way to tell several people the same information that you want all of them to know without having to type the same thing multiple times. Sending emails to several people was what started this, group texting is much faster and comes with many rules to follow.

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.

After many research I decided to do my topic essay on the negative impact that texting has on college students. This topic is something I can relate to because texting messaging remains the most popular way of communicating for me, a college student. I looked up many articles and academic journals that would help me further explain the point that I wanted to make. In 2010, it was recorded that 98.8% of college students owned cell phones. (Ziegler, 2010) Texting is a prevalent way of communication it has taken a toll of college students. When texting becomes a frequent thing it starts to affect the students face to face communication skills, sleep cycle and the way students write their academic papers.