Would you sacrifice your life to call the fire department? If the school caught on fire would you want to run back in the classroom to call the fire station or pull out a phone from your pocket. Students should be allowed to have a phone in their pocket or in their backpack in case of an emergency. Many students forget the phone numbers in their contacts. Sometimes phone numbers are long and hard to remember. What if a school phone didn’t work and the class was in a lockdown. Phones could be used for music when doing P.E. It could also be used for an calculator in math if it’s allowed. If you're a forgetful person you could take a picture so you can study it later on. Like when you have math homework or history.If you have an …show more content…
Like using safari or google to type a essay. You could download Google docs and do your assignments.If you're a good texter It would be easier. Whenever you have time at school. In the article they think phones should be banned and disconnect the students from the school wi-fi.When teachers computers are slow. Instead they could change the wifi password and make it harder instead of something easy.It would take a longer time if the password was different.They could change the wifi name so it would be harder to find. If the wifi’s name was changed to one of the staff members first name and the kids didn’t know the staff member’s name then they wouldn’t be able to sign into it. I think the articles reason is flawed because they think students drain the wifi it is true but, they could change many things on the wifi. They could also turn off the the classroom wifi when they're not using it.If the wifi’s name was changed to the principal's first name then not too many students would be on.Then not too many teachers would have their computers buffering.They would be able to do many things. In source #1 it says that students devour the
Have you ever wondered what would happen in an emergency and no one was able to use their phone in school? Or what if there was a school shooting at your child’s school and they had no way of contacting you? Many people look at the cons of having cell phones at school, but have you ever looked at the good side. Students need their cell phones at lunch because it solves a lot of problems. Having cell phones at lunch will help us be in contact with our parents, know what is going on throughout the day, and give us something to do after we are done eating.
Most schools do not allow the use of cell phones in school or in class, so the school feels like changing their policy of cell phone use might be a bad idea. Students could take advantage or miss use the privilege of phones in class. There will always be students who act out in class, but the school must discipline those who do and reward those who do not.
If the student has an emergency, don’t you think that they should discuss the problem with the school counselor? Plus if they need to call this can easily be achieved by phoning their parents directly from school. Cell phones are distraction in class when learning is taken place.
In school systems today safety is the top priority that they spend most of their time enforcing rules for this specific reason. After hearing about the Columbine school shooting I can only imagine the pain their parents felt while receiving the news. If the students had access to their cell phones could this have turned out differently? Dr. Stroka talks in a school safety video that you have to put a face on school safety and most people have forgotten what that’s about (Ken Trump). If students have access to phones it betters the chance of getting help right away in life threatening
But the district’s network was under siege. Students were flooding the network with their cell phones, taking up valuable bandwidth
Additionally, students can talk to others across the lunch room and play with others on their cell phones. Just think, the lunch room wouldn’t be so loud! The teachers wouldn’t have to talk to students about being too loud. A way to earn to be on their phones is making sure all class work is done, don’t be on
In 1991 wifi was invented, and as the years go on wifi has been developing and changing in the most incredible ways. Wifi has also changed on how we communicate with people, and how we shop for items. As changes come, trouble also comes with it. In recent years, parents have been blaming wifi for the recent problems their children have been facing. The research and studies that have been conducted shows that an increase in wifi access and coverage does not pose a danger to students in
What would happen if teenagers were allowed to use electronic devices in class? A million new issues would arise in the education system . Many schools throughout the Peel Region have implemented a new policy called BYOD, Bring Your Own Device, which is a recent attempt by the Peel District School Board (PDSB) at improving the education system. Many teachers and students refer to it as "Bring Your Own Disruptions" due to the fact that it hinders the education of students by acting as distractions, offering new ways to cheat and even paving the way for cyber-bullying during school time.
Currently, my teachers use their cell phones to connect to the school’s wireless network during the school day. We are discussing the possibility of our fifth graders bringing their devices on early release days to use in the classrooms. We chose fifth graders because they are older and this would be a pilot, which will provide us with information on how students can handle this
What if you were put in a situation where you didn’t know if you’d make it out alive? The first thing you do is reach for your phone to call someone that could help, right? As students, we can’t do that. The school has rules in place that ban phones and force us to keep them in our lockers. Even though some may say that students will abuse this and play on them in class, phones are no different than chromebooks in this situation.
Cell phones have been taboo until recently. A cell phone can be turned into a tool: calculator, organizer, or even a video recorder. Students with disabilities can have access to tools that aid in learning. Students with attention disorders can stay organized as well as develop higher level thinking skills for all students. One program I have used with my students is voice recorder. This is a great tool that allows students to record class lectures or create their own recordings for assignments. My daughter used this program to submit her choir finals. The final recording is shared with her teacher. This is a great way to utilize cell phones. Students can record in a comfortable setting and take as much time as they need. Cell phones
Nowadays, social networks such as Facebook, Twitter and Snapchat are a huge distraction and can greatly reduce student’s productivity. Students are very active and fast to reply on messaging platform, meanwhile, are usually late on assignment submission (Mingle). Hence, the decision of the university will prevent students from being caught on one of their biggest distraction. They will be more attentive to the professor in class. Assuming for each productive student, the student benefit will be the money they spent for the class. Therefore, if RUX University have approximately 30,000 students and the tuition is $7,000 per year, the university will benefit $210,000,000 per year. Because of the increase in student’s performance, RUX University will also become a more honoured institute. In terms of harms, the university will have to pay for the jammers and its maintaining fees. They also have to be up-to-date to prevent student’s workarounds and actively filtering the Internet to keep the campus’ Wi-Fi suitable for researching. A typical cellular jammer costs total $500 (including maintenance fee) (Jammer-Store). Assuming the institute have 1,000 classrooms, each jammer per classroom would cost $500,000. As it turns out, when assessing the utility by dollars, the
By doing this, students will be able to have cell phones on them for communicating to parents, research, and emergencies that may happen throughout the day. The plan is to reduce anxiety about getting caught with your phone in school, and to make communication to parents easier. Students would be able to have their phones, 1st through 7th hour, and would be able to have their phone on them at all
Think back to the good ole' days of elementary school. You are running around playing tag at recess and reading notes that your mom sent in your lunch box. Those were the good days. Those were the days where your only worry was handwriting class or those awful timed multiplication worksheets. The children of the new generation will remember elementary school a little differently. Instead of handwriting class they are in typing classes, and instead of running around at recess they are playing angry birds. They will never know the frustration of getting knocked out of the ace spot in four square, or perhaps the feeling of swinging from the monkey bars to get from one side of the playground to another. We live in a society where technology equals knowledge. The more technology you have the more knowledge you are believed to have encountered. As with any controversial topic, there are many layers included within this current debate; including the struggle of insufficient Wi-Fi access at students’ homes, lack of and struggle with student focus in the classroom, and health problems that come from too much screen time for children.
Computers, wifi and tablets have resulted in student success while in school. “Wi-Fi has become a universal expectation among students, and their attitudes towards technology are a good indicator of broad changes underway in how we as a society learn, work and communicate,” said Edgar Figueroa, executive director of the Wi-Fi Alliance, the global trade organization representing the Wi-Fi industry. Nearly 75% of US college students believe WiFi access on their college campus helps them get better grades, according to a recent survey conducted for the Wi-Fi Alliance. Getting new technology equipment can change a lot in a student 's learning capacity and learning also to use