Cell Phone Use Essay

In today’s world, it is abnormal for a person over the age of 12 to not have a cell phone glued to them at all times. According to an article in the Huffington Post, 99.8 million college students have cell phones. According the National Center for Education Stistics, about 21.8 million students attended college this year, making the amount of students without cell phones, across the entire United States, about only 43,600 people. Most colleges and universities allow the instructors to come up with their own policy about cell phone use in their classroom because there is no set policy in place. Cell phone use in the classroom is becoming more prevalent every day. Cell phone use in the classroom is not only detrimental to the students using the cell phones, but other students and professors in the classroom.
Cell phones have been around for quite awhile, but only in the past five years have they been a problem for teachers and students in the classroom. When cell phones first came out, they were not easily carried and did not have any functions expect for calling. Today, phones have the same capabilities as a computer. Phones can allow people to get on the internet, text, call, and listen to music. Phones also have many applications that help make people’s lives easier. Some applications are designed to help students succeed. However, the same applications can be an easy source for cheating during tests.
Students have admitted they have used their phones for everything from texting, scanning Facebook or Twitter, e-mailing, and working on homework for other classes, found Lydia Burak, author of “Multitasking in the Classroom”. According to an article written by Deborah Tindell and Robert Bohlander, 75 percent replied t...

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...tact, engage by asking direct questions to students during class, and talking with students outside of class, all of which will help students to become more interested in the class and receive a better grade.
The majority of students will not support banning cell phones in the classroom in the beginning. However, students do not realize the consequences of cell phone use in the classroom and if students were educated about the detrimental consequences of the usage, the ban may be better supported. If students go into school knowing their phones are not allowed, they will hopefully accept the rule without complaint and eventually it will be common to have no phones at all in the classroom. Students use a lot of time and money to become educated and colleges and universities should do whatever they can to make everyone’s learning experience the best it can be.