What if you could have your phone out in class and not get in trouble for it, instead it be encouraged for you to have it out. Phones can be a benefit and there not just a distraction. Although some students may use social media or play games in class this can be monitored. Phones should be aloud out in class for the many benefits it brings to students and teachers. One benefit being is, it can be used as a dictionary or a source of research. This can save time and money for schools as they would not have to buy as many computers for research. They can also be used as a reading material. Schools spend hundreds of dollars buying and replacing books every year when students could just use their phone instead of a hardback. The most helpful …show more content…
Phones are not always a distraction it can be used for many things one being a dictionary and a source of research. In class when a student has a vocabulary assignment they would use a dictionary and would take the whole hour to complete when it could only take 20 minutes with the use of a phone and teachers could get a lesson in. If the use of a phone was aloud teachers could also see who has studied and for how long they have been. Which is helpful to see which students are working and which ones aren't. Schools all over the world have libraries and spend thousands of dollars buying and replacing books. This could be avoided with the use of a phone. If a phone was aloud in class students could use their phones as reading material. This would make it less of a necessary to have large libraries costing schools less. In class teachers like class projects and there's not always a class set if the use of a phone was aloud students could use e-books and you wouldn't need a class set. The use of a phone in class would give students the chance to listen to music. This helps as background music may improve focus on a task by providing motivation and improving mood. During long study sessions, music can aid endurance. In some cases, students have found that music helps them with memorization, likely by creating a positive mood, which indirectly boosts memory
There are many apps and websites that can make it easier for students to learn. In the article “Schools Seek Balance for Cell Phones in Class”from the boston globe it says that a high school physics class uses an app to record data and measure sound intensity. There are also apps like power school that allow students to check their grades and make sure all their assignments are turned in. Also cell phones allow students to type papers and turn in assignments, on programs like google classroom and google docs. These all make it a lot easier for the students and the teachers.
Students should be allowed to use their cell phones in class. Cell phones are very helpful for class work, such as essays, journals, and projects. “A survey of...
Students should not be allowed to have phones in school. Phones can be a huge distraction with all the social applications we use today. It can become a cheating device to help a few get a unfair advantage on assignments. Finally, it can have a good use such as being a useful tool in an emergency. Phone can be a blessing and a curse in schools, it can be used during an emergency and can also have downsides like being a cheating device and a distraction.
Educators must discover whether devices, such as cell phones, in the classroom are distractions or aids. According to Deborah R. Tindell and Robert W. Bohlander, “Some argue that cell phones have no place in a classroom setting and others argue that cell phones should be allowed both for safety reasons and as an instructional aid” (Tindell and Bohlander 1). In this spectrum of absolutes, each teacher must evaluate the goals of his or her own class to determine the possibility of whether to encourage or discourage the use of cell phones in the classroom. “One concern involves the distraction caused by the use of cell phones during class” (Tindell and Bohlander 2) However, Prensky argues that “…cell phones complement the short-burst, casual, multitasking style of today’s ‘Digital Native’ learners” (182). He goes on to say that “Using cell phones as learning devices, whether in or out of school, requires a good deal of rethinking and flexibility on the part of the educators” (182). In the English classroom, it is difficult to see where cell phones fit into the puzzle. If a teacher decides to allow cell phones, they should aid learning and not hinder it. Among Prensky’s suggestions on how to implement cell phones, one sticks out as helpful to English teachers: the cell phone camera. Students can use their cell phone cameras as “…tools for scientific data collection, documentation, and visual journalism…” (Prensky 186). Students could use video journalism in particular to learn multimedia literacy. However, teachers should only allow cell phones at certain times to avoid texting in class, or playing
Phones used to be attached to the wall, now you carry them everywhere. But these portable devices may soon be replacing computers in your school's classroom. Cell phones have been debated on for years. Should or shouldn't they be allowed in classes? Well in the opinion of many students they should be allowed, but not just to text each other. They may actually have a use to teachers. Such as setting a calendar for school events, or to research and to use a calculator.
“[S]eventy-one percent of students can send or receive text messages on their phone during class”. ( Earl 4). Cell phones in schools negatively affect a child's learning. Cell phone usage is a distraction for the student in the classroom environment. Cell phones in schools contribute to a student's deficit in learning capabilities.
Although phones are a distraction, phones should be allowed in school because students could use them as a fast resource, they can access articles and books online, And this can help \students focus.
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 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 use of cellular devices in educational facilities. I believe that cell phone use is of extreme convenience, and has academically beneficial aspects, among it's so called "faults".
This becomes a wider issue when students begin to pull out cell phones in the middle of class. Cue the distractions. Speaking from a high school student’s perspective, I can say that as much as I love having my phone with me at all times, it is definitely a distraction during class. There is always a number of times, during a lesson or a presentation, where I find my attention drifting off of the lecture, and towards my cell phone. As an individual who usually has a strong attention span, I can speak on behalf of my peers when I say that allowing personal technology would only be a distraction to students.
Cell phones are small and portable yet provide so much to its user with being able to look up anything to calling your parents in case of an emergency or if you need to give them a heads up on something. With the way things are today people need to focus on incorporating cell phones into daily life and finding ways to make them more suitable in a classroom environment. Teachers are already doing this though with using apps that work with the whole class and can track data and usage of a student. It cannot be debated that cell phones are beneficial in school as before cell phones you would have to go to your local library and hopefully find what you are looking for. Cell phones belong in a school environment as they can be helpful and it 's a parent 's right to be able to get ahold of their
Schools should allow cell phones in schools for children's protection and safety. Secondly, cell phones can keep you connected with your buddies. Instead of screaming, and yelling in the halls to ask your buddy for books, you can simply call them on your cell phone. Some students ask themselves, "If teachers are allowed to use cell phones in class?"... ...
One reason that cell phones should be banned from classrooms is because students who use them fall into a daze of distracted learning. Classes are taught by teachers, whose goal is to give the student an educational experience, learning things they will need to apply to their later life. However, students on their cellphones are distracted from their learning and never use the lessons taught. Over 2,000 cellphone disturbances were reported in New York City in the past school year (Backstory). This means that over 2,000 people had issues with cellphones interrupting classroom discussi...
Cell phones should not be allowed in school because children focus more on the phone than schoolwork, it creates more drama, and it promotes cheating. Cell phones should not be allowed in schools because kids are always wondering what their friends are doing and what is happening outside of school. If they have access to their phones all day, then they will be glued to them. Phones are more entertaining than a teacher lecturing at the front of the class. Most students will start to zone out, or fall asleep, when a teacher starts a lesson.
First of all, students absolutely should not be permitted to use cell phones during school hours because it is a distraction to other students. This is an issue that plays a huge role on student’s lives because it takes away from their academic education. The s...
By permitting the use of cellphones in school, students can increase their knowledge and complete school work by using applications and other features on their smartphones. Teachers and students are now “using their phones as clickers to answer questions, providing feedback on student progress, and also to document labs, collaborate on group projects and capture teachers’ notes” (Higgins). Students like to do things the fun way, and by using their phones as clickers, they can learn and review for tests while having fun answering them on their phones. Students can use services on their phones to turn assignments in too. During group assignments, students can work right on their phones. If a student was absent one day, all another student has to do is send them the work they did with a touch of a button. Teachers usually move very fast when presenting information to students. By taking pictures of notes, it makes it easy for students to make sure they have all the notes without the teacher moving too quickly. They will be able to go home and review everything right there on that small little screen, hence increasing their knowledge. Additionally, “Students attending a field trip can snapshot a picture and capture their ideas” just by using the camera on...