Using Smartphones And Other Electronic Devices

Technology has a huge impact on everyone. Despite the variety of age groups, we have all become dependent on using technology throughout our lives. With the use of smartphones, alarm clocks, headphones, and so forth, we have started to invest tech into our everyday lifestyle, where it is now a social norm. As we are moving rapidly into a tech-based world, the use of technology has been incorporated into classrooms. Teachers have introduced PowerPoints, chatrooms, online assignments and much more to make the classroom run smoothly and help students accomplish more from their learning. However, problems can arise with technology usage in the classroom. Through students being able to access technology, they can become distracted

Many of our students have smartphones, laptops, and tablets they use throughout the school day for school work. While some students depend on their devices to look up the current fashion trends and football stats, we feel that technology has also enabled students to think in a different way. Many students are quick on their feet to Google information to prove their friend wrong, send texts and emails in less than 10 seconds, and get excited when they are allowed to use their

Electronics are believed to interfere with learning. Jose Antonio Bowen states in his article, “NO: Classrooms Must Be a Place of Focus and Mental Stillness,” that instead of improving education, technology “doesn’t solve the problem, it only brings it into the classroom.” However, these problems could be prevented if students were given restrictions while still having the ability to find different and unique ways to boost their knowledge. In “YES: New Tools Let Students Learn More, and More Deeply,” Lisa Nielsen explains that just because they have access to electronic devices does not necessarily mean that they are doing something other than texting or cheating, and that teachers are monitoring their students at the best of their ability.

Most people know the feeling getting in their comfy clothes and sitting down to watch a new episode of their favorite tv show on the laptop. The popcorn laying by ones’s side. Their butter fingers across the keys, while each image is illuminating your face. Their phone is buzzing from the Snapchats. In this generation, people cling to some type of electronic device. “According to the US Department of Education and studies by the National Training and Simulation Association Technology-based instruction can reduce the time students take to reach a learning objective by 30-80%”(ProCon.org). In a classroom, teachers are able to take their class around the world electronically to look at the development of civilizations in Egypt, Greece, Rome, and Latin America. Also, students are able to take virtual trips and collaborate with other students around the world and research in the best libraries

The term ‘BYOD’ stands for Bring Your Own Device. It refers to allowing students to bring their own device to school. BYOD is a current issue that presents both strengths and challenges. This report will aim to inform about current issues involved with implementing BYOD programs, potential benefits of programs and a recommendation as to weather a BYOD should be implemented into Pine Hill Primary School.

Transferring the teaching method from out of the textbook to laptops can be very distracting. Of course all electronic devices come with games or at least some application you can download. The Students will be able to access many apps including; games, email, social media, and instant messaging classmates (Hurst). Even without this change, students are already constantly on their phones texting or playing games during classes. Do we really want to have more distractions?

Fighting for attention erodes the teacher’s confidence and threatens their authority. Even with policies in place, and overt attempts to enforce it, without constant surveillance it is difficult to ensure that students aren’t negatively using their devices. Constant monitoring distracts the teacher just as effectively as the technology distracts the students. Eventually feeling defeated, a professor may ultimately revoke the privilege of using tech devices in class and if caught confiscating the device. Having a confrontational or restrictive policy might create a "professor versus technology" perception. This hurting student-teacher relations and potentially causing harm to faculty reputation. “Fighting boredom”, is what 55% of students said in McCoys UNL student survey is the reason for turning to devices during class time. Professors can create new ways to engage college students in classroom activities that might reduce boredom and minimize disruptions for all parties involved. If implemented correctly this incivility can be

In the 21st century, technology has changed the way that we communicate teaching and learning process. In the past decade Digital technology has taken the world and impact our daily lives. In the past, students had to meet at the library to work together but now students can work together without having to meet at the library after school. Online learning made a hugs different in student’s life and help them with gathering information’s much more quickly. Students also can access lessons at home while they couldn’t attend the class. Most teachers use mobile applications and website for classroom activities and lessons for students, so that they can access anywhere in the world and to get ready for future lessons.

“Even when they have a computer or tablet at their fingertips, students prefer to use a mobile phone for projects, most adults wouldn 't undertake without a keyboard and mouse” (Wells D.1). Efforts to incorporate cell phone in the classroom is quickly gaining momentum (Compoy and Harte A.3). In a 2013 poll of 2600 schools, 10 percent of the schools were allowing to use mobile devices this is up from 3 percent in 2010 (Compoy and Harte A.3). Students of today seem more connected to their wireless devices. For many years teens have been using smartphones in various ways from tweeting to watching YouTube videos (Arnett p. 3). Cell phones can be an excellent learning tool that most students are already comfortable using. While some studies say that cellular phones harm students academically, using them in the classroom gives students 24/7 access to their assignments via various apps, the ability to complete them on the move along with allowing instructors to connect with students in a way students understand.

How would you like to be sitting at school and everything be online, including your teacher? Today, many schools are using computers and tablets to communicate and do their school work instead of, the teacher communicating with the students. Computers and tablets should not be the primary way students learn in schools. Students and teachers go to school communicate with one another. Computers and tablets should not be the primary way students should learn in school. When students use tablets and computers in school they don’t communicate with their classmates as much, as well as teachers. Students can lose their communication skills with the people around them. Finally, students will get too dependent on their devices.

Smartphone as a device has wireless connectivity and when that is combined with social application and is customized for learning leads to open doors for both staff and students, granting them access to information that may have been out of their reach before but now stand at the tip of their fingers to be accessed anytime. As we look around the educational sector in the world today we see that incorporation of student owned gadget into the classroom is turning into a solution to the problems of

You are sitting in class and your teacher hands you an assignment. You’re sitting there trying to be productive and get your work done, but there are too many distractions. Have you ever wished that if you could have your phone to block out all the noises things will go a lot easier? Most students at this age have a phone on them at all times, but this could be seen as a hindrance and distraction in class. Although some people believe cell phones could have its benefits. It’s true that allowing students to use their phones in class could be distracting. Nevertheless, we should implement the ability to use cell phones in class. Furthermore granting students the liberty to use their smartphones as a tool. Thus we should allow smartphones because of the resourcefulness and reliability of smartphones. Accordingly students may show more productivity. This privilege also allows students to communicate with others in school for school

Personal technology in the classroom has always been a controversial topic. Although they are banned in a number of schools, students still seem to sneak them into class. Some students use it to contact their parents to notify where they are, yet some just take them for recreational purposes. Despite the advantages, personal technology in the classroom is not beneficial because it is a distraction, it is expensive, and it doesn’t have much effect on one’s academics.

Schools, teachers, principals and parents are always looking for new and innovative ways for students learning to be successful, engaging, at the same time provide high quality teaching and learning. Technology is becoming more apparent in the 20th century, with schools all over Australia and the world attempting to incorporate technology into classrooms today to provide a high quality of teaching and learning. Disterer, Kleiner, 2013 talk about the benefit of Bringing your own device (BYOD) is the fact that you can use it “Anything, Anywhere, Anytime” with students and teachers having the convenience of not having to constantly save on USB devices and keep switching, with their own device making it

The implementation of the latest technology is important for enhancing the amount of information a student can embrace in a class. Currently, high schools have very strict rules against the use of cell phones and other electronic devices that have the ability to enforce key ideas in a curriculum. Education is the first step in the life of kids to becoming an effective member of society and these kids should be able to use every resource available to them in class to get the most out of this crucial step of life. The way a child is taught from kindergarten to twelfth grade can have a major impact on who they are as a person.