Smart phones, being known as today’s most used gadget can gain all good feedbacks from the buyers; however, although the production of smartphones improves the easy access to information, communication and socialization, it still has negative effects on education. The researchers conducted a survey in order to gain first hand data and used the random sampling method. Most respondents answered that social networking sites help them to raise their social statuses. When in class students commonly kill their boredom by checking their smartphones. Their frequent use of smartphones exhaust their body particularly their eyes and they make their smartphones as their priorities. One of the most influential icons in the history of men, Albert Einstein, once stated, “I fear that technology will surpass our human interaction. The world will have a generation of idiots.” What Einstein meant was, further improvements of technology the world gets could not always mean as an advantage in all aspects. Smart phones, being …show more content…
The results shows that majority of the respondents uses their smartphones during class hours. The most common reason answered by the respondents is that to kill boredom during classes. This idea shows that students who are not interested in particular subject intends to get his/her smartphone and play with it.
The results of the study showed that smart phones have negative effects on most industrial engineering students’ education. Based on the survey, most students’ boundless use of smart phones can lead to having their assignments undone on time and may cause them to lack sleep at night. Moreover, daily use of smart phones is a great steal of time in their school works. It even makes them review their lesson less often that leads a few respondents to fail in their examinations. Results of the research even show that students use their smart phones
In the article “Our Cell Phones, Ourselves”by Christine Rosen published by W. W. Norton in 2004, she explains about how technology came about and is now taking over today’s world. Just by walking down the street today, it is visible that in everybody’s hands there is a
In the article it states, “The cell phone has hurt our society in three distinctive ways. The first way was it reduced self-reliance, it has decreased our time management skills and the final way is it hurt our ability to communicate to one another” (3). This means that cell phones, computers, and other electronics have made us less self-reliant, it has also made us less aware of time, and it damages our communication to one another. This means that cell phones, technology, has made us less self-reliant, it has also made us less aware of time, and it damages our communication to one another. The article, “The Positives and Negatives Effects of Technology”, also states, “This can be very bad for our society because it is stretching people’s money forcing people that would normally just be fine with what computer they had to go out and buy the biggest and best technology so they can feel like they are a part of our technologically focused society” (2).
Although Though technology can be good, it can be worse than good, such as people always with their faces on their phones and headphones in their ears, people neglecting books and using more online text, and people wasting their lives watching TV.Children now know how to use a phone faster than they can
Technology used educationally has only come into full effect for a couple years now. There is a tremendous amount of positive outcomes that can come about in future years due to technology in classrooms. This is a major benefit because smart phones today include ways of instant communication and information. The three authors, John-Harmen Valk, Ahmed T. Rashid, and Laurent Elder of “Using Mobile Phones to Improve Educational Outcomes: An Analysis of Evidence from Asia” discover that the use of technology in the classroom actually boosts test scores (Elder). In the journal article the authors includes case studies in which they have studied the effectiveness of learning through technology and how that has benefitted them to do big things with their knowledge. It is important that people realize this and come to learn that technology has changed the way people encounter life. Yet, in the end it does not have a dramatic negative effect because of the advantage technology has put today’s society
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Do you ever imagine what would happen if our world is taken over by some artificial intelligent machines like in the movies “I, Robot” or “Matrix”? Some people may say it is nonsense to worry about a situation that happens in a science fiction movie, but in my opinion it is not so much of a nonsense anymore. Nowadays, people basically depend their daily lives on their phone: from waking up in the morning, to checking the map on the phone to go to their destinations. Also, the amount of people who have cell phone increased too. 90 percent of adults in the United States possess a cell phone. However, is this necessarily a bad trend? Because our phones are very multipurpose, our lives are much simpler. We don’t need to buy alarm clocks, watches, or mp3 players due to the presence smart phones. After analyzing
The use of smartphones in class affects students’ focus and academic performance in school and their relationship with their teachers. “Staying up all hours to play online games, letting homework slide and avoiding friendships in the real world are some symptoms to watch for in intense gamers” (Tamsyn). This shows that students who are obsessed with playing games on their smartphones (and other technologies) can be easily distracted from doing their homework and finishing their projects. When students also play too many video games, it can result to a lack of sleep which makes them come to school late and get moody. Teachers notice that some of their students’ marks are dropping due to students not handing in their assignments on time and not paying attention during classes. In...
Despite the short amount of time since the introduction of the smartphone, the rapid development of the software and technology has had a tremendous effect on the everyday life in society today. The concept of communicating through a telephone was developed in the 1870s. Devices to transmit speech electrically were designed by Elisha Gray and Alexander Graham Bell, but Bell's design was patented first. On March 10, 1876, Alexander Graham Bell achieved one of his greatest successes in the making of the telephone. This brought upon a major change in communication and gave leeway to the improvement of the telephone in the days to come (Bellis, 2013b). During the 20th century there were many innovations regarding the telephone. In 1973, the first call from a portable phone was made Martin Cooper, who was a Motorola researcher and executive at the time. Since its inception, the advancement of cell phones has been exponential (Bellis, 2013a). As a result, cell phones have changed how society works in today's world. Many people lack the insight of how cell phones, or in this case, smart phones, affect the people that use them. So the question is, how is the evolution of smart phones impacting our society?
To prove this point, the researcher begins with the usage of smartphones in the classroom. Then, she gives the positive and negative effects of smartphones to students. Lastly, she will explain how the usage of smartphones affects student’s academic performance.
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...
Technology has, since the primitive years, always been used to invent tools in order to solve problems. This would, in turn, simplify and make man’s life easier. Through advancements in the field, man has become more efficient on both the macro- and microscopic level. Anything nowadays can be attained with either the flip of a switch or a click of a mouse. One particular technology that came about in this time was the smartphone. Since 2008, the smartphone, a device that combines a normal cell phone with a computer, typically offering Internet access, data storage, e-mail capability, etc. all in your hand was deemed as ground-breaking technology and created one of the largest and most competitive market in terms of technology to date. Their increased popularity continued to grow and today, it is very hard to encounter someone without a smartphone. These devices allow people to disconnect from reality and grant them access to the world as a whole. People use these devices to manage their daily routine, dictating what they should do and when they should do it. The capabilities of this device had been unheard of before their time. However, is there more to this technology than what has been made aware to their owners? We have become overly obsessed with these devices that it has impacted our humanity – our interaction with others and society. Since its upbringing, the invention of the smartphone has come to negatively reinvent the way people go about their daily lives because we have become detached from society, let these smartphones govern our lives, and have become obsessed with these devices.
Technology has had a negative impact on education by causing distractions during class lectures and assignments. The over use of technology is leading to a loss in communication skills and troubles in reading. The use of technology causes many people to have the temptation for cheating in and out of classrooms, resulting in students not wanting to study. Not every student has the capability of connecting to the internet or have contact to technology. This creates difficulties for those students without connection to the internet to complete online assignments or have accesses to their school’s resources. Also, for online courses, students have to wait for an email response in order to get help or to understand a lecture that the professor is
There is no doubt that almost all people in developed country using mobile phones, from teen until old peoples. They are using mobile phones for business communication, keeping contact with family and friends, and even just followed the trends. This essay will focus on using mobile phones in elementary and high schools. There are many disadvantages of using mobile phones in school such as, students use mobile phones for cheating, as well as that can destroy concentration while study in classroom. It also be shown that other electronic devices to facilitate student while study at schools. However, this essay will argue that mobile phones should be banned in schools.
Mobile phones are undeniable today. Almost everybody has a mobile phone. Formerly, it only functioned as a portable mean of communication. The function of a mobile phone has developed into entertainment. Furthermore, mobile phone has also come into the schools. However, it has both positive and negative effect on students. This essay argues that mobile phones will bring more negative than positive effect for students. Of course, students use it as a mean of communication and sometimes for an emergency call if they need it. Yet, they would use their mobile phones for both bullying and cheating. Also, mobile phones will make students lost concentration during their study.
Mobile phones have various negative effects on a teenager's life and their life style. It can affect the student's in many ways. It can lead to health related problems, academic distractions, exam malpractice and change in behavior of teenagers. Reserches have shown that a mobile phone can cause an increased risk of acoustic neuroma and glioma in teenagers (Ravidchandran, S. V., (2009)). It can also cause ipsilateral , this is a tumor caused on the side of the brain where phone mostly held. It is highly risky for a teenager's health, as it is their growing period of time. Mobile phones are also known as a cause for academic distraction of students. Students tend to carry mobile phones to schools. Due to which they tend to use mobile phones during their lectures, they listen to songs, watch videos, play games ,chat with their friends online, etc. which makes mobile phones act as major source of distraction in a student's life . The students don’t conce...