Motivating Students To Put Their Phones Away Research Paper

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Many teachers ask their students to put their phones away when in the classroom. I see people on their phones in class everyday and even when the teacher asks them to put it away they still dont. I think that putting their phone away should be enforced because it is very disrespectful, distracting, and many people use it to cheat on tests or quizzes. When the teacher asks a student to put their phone away and they don't I think that it is very disrespectful, because the teachers are their to help teach you, and when they are telling you to put their phone away it takes time out of what they're teaching to talk to you specifically. After the teacher asks them to put their phone away they chose not to because they don't think it is that big of deal to have a phone out when the teacher is talking or trying to teach something. I think that having your phone out in class is not only disrespectful to the the teachers but also to the students around them. It is also very disrespectful and frustrating when other students want to learn what is going on but can't because the teacher is telling them to put their phone away every minute of the class. It also might frustrate the students around them that don't have a Iphone …show more content…

It could also distract the people around them because if the students are on their phones and they are friends the friend is going to want to know what is going on and that then distracts the student next to them. It would also distract the teacher because the teacher is going to need to stop every few minutes to ask the student to put their phone away. Stopping the class to ask one student to get off their phone not only distracts the teacher but the whole class too. Distraction will lead to lower grades because students are distracted by their phone instead of

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