Essay On Cellphones In School

For the majority of us, cell phones have become an additional supplement for our body. Without a doubt, cell phones have irrevocably changed the modern world and are poison to our generation. On daily basis, cell phones cause disturbance to the educational environment of students, as they have become a major part of students' life. Most schools now allow students to have cell phones but try to require them to be turned off during class because they can be disruptive and distracting (Cohen). Unfortunately, the usage of cellphones at school influence the student's academic average negatively. In class, cellphones could distract students, they could cut the line of concenration for others if they interrupted lessons, and they could be a source of cheating. However, some people believe that using cellphones at school could have an educational benefit and influence the academic achievement positevly; they can serve as notepads or can be recording devices for students to record lessons that was taken.

Students will not be able to completely take advantage of classroom instructions if they are distracted by incoming text messages and vibrations from incoming calls. For the time being, students do not only use cellphones for texting and making calling, but also for playing games, surfing the net and listening to music (Austin, 2012). These distractions cause the students to concenrtate less often in class, which leads to the drop of their academic achievement. Allowing students to use their personal cellphones to do research is a superb idea, but letting students to put them away and demand them to use them only for educational purposes is like putting a bottle of beer in an alcoholic's hand and telling him not to take a drink. Once the...

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Mobile phones seem to be everywhere now and the devices, which were once a luxury for indulgent grown ups, are now in the hands of many kids and teenagers (Austin, 2012). Basically now all students own modern cellphones, and it is typically to see them burried with their cellphones or listening to music through headphones, not just in schools, but everywhere and at anytime. Some people may want to ban cell phones from classrooms, but some believe that this is a new time in education and with dwindling budgets, so we need to rethink possibilities, stretching every dollar (htt2). The positive aspects of the usage of cell phones in school cannot overcome the very basic disadvatage, which is that cellphones distract students from schoolwork and activities leading them to have bad perfromance at school.