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The Pros and Cons of Cell phones In Schools" Posted by: Karehka Ramey # in Techucation $ December 10, 2012 % 3 Comments

As technology keeps on advancing, cell phones have almost become essential gadgets of our lives, it isnext to impossible to leave without these cell phones, because they make communication easy. Studentshave also found a great use of cell phones and most of them go with their cell phones to school. Cellphones are not bad or harmful as some educators can think, but the problem is that some students usethem for wrong reasons and this makes them bad in school. Since most cell phones now days can accessinternet, students tend to use them for selfish entertaining reasons while in the classroom, this createsdistraction and it also affects that students’ grades.

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Students are the top most users of social networks like Facebook, Zynga , Twitter, YouTube and manymore, all these social networks have mobile phone applications which can enable user of a cell phone toeasily access them. So when ever students get a chance to come with their cell phones at school, they endup using them for personal entertainment during classroom hours. This behavior has forced manyeducators and parents to ban cell phone usage in schools. Below i have listed detailed points on thepros and cons of cell phones in schools

PROS OF CELL PHONES IN SCHOOLS:Easy communications: Both parents and teachers will need to stay in touch with their children andstudents, so cell phones will make this communication simple. Also students use cell phones to join peerto peer discussions which can help them ask any thing educational during this discussion. Thisdiscussion can be hosted on online educational social networks like Piazza.com, this network hasmobile phones apps which a student can install and join any academic discussion using their mobilephones. In most cases, shy students find such remote platforms useful, because they can stayanonymous and ask a question, as opposed in a live classroom where they will fear to raise their handto ask a question or help from the teacher or their fellow students. Teachers can also use textmessaging service to send simple assignments to their students while at home. Parents can easily keep

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track of their children using cell phones, so in case some thing pops up during school hours, the childwill just contact their parents.

Safety Reasons: Since cell phones are light and easy to carry, they can act as emergence contacttools for students. Disasters are unavoidable and they always distrust our daily activities. It is veryimportant if a student has a personal phone to use and contact their parents, head teachers or police incase some thing wrong happens. Many times students get mixed up in wrong groups while at schooland they get bullied or get involved in wrong acts like drug use. These two harmful behaviors haveresulted into deaths on many students, but when a student has a cell phone, they can call for help fromtheir parents, friends, teachers or the police. Child bulling is on the rise in many schools, shy studentscan’t fight back, so they need to have a cell phone with them, so that they can call for help at any time.

Mobile Learning: It is very important for students to be in position to learn from anywhere at anytime. The education world is changing and many scholars are attending virtual classrooms. Onlineeducation is now becoming so popular than before, mobile phones have also helped in the growth of M-Learning. Unlike a computer, cell phones are light and easy to carry. Advanced cell phones like theiphone, sumsung galaxy, have wide screens which can display data in high resolution and they alsohave big storage hardware which can be used to store electronic books. Services like Dropbox.comand Box.com can be used to store academic notes remotely and students can access this dataanywhere. Mobile learning applications like Piazza.com can allow teachers create virtual classroom andassign course work to their students.

Use cell phones as research tools: Students who do subjects which require field work research willneed cell phones while in the field. All modern cell phones can be used to take pictures in the field,create reports using simple word processing applications, save and submit data back to their schools. Iftheir school has a remote storage facility, students can easily back up their field work notes, videos andpicture on that server while in the field. Most mobile phone service providers offer cheap internetsubscription packages, so students will find it easy to transfer data or make more extensive researchonline using their cell phone.

Improve relationship between teachers and students: Since teachers can easily text theirstudents course work, also students can easily ask their teachers questions using text messagingservices . During this discussion, both teachers and students get to know each other deeply. Theteacher will get to know the weakness of their student because text massaging on cell phones is morepersonal and private. A student will feel free when communicating with their teachers via textmessaging and the teacher will have a great chance of helping their students on a personal basis usinga media familiar and comfortable to their student.

CONS OF CELL PHONES IN SCHOOL:Distraction: Since today’s cell phones have more than one application, students will always getdistracted in the quest of trying to discover and try out new cell phone applications. Female studentsare more likely to get distracted by mobile applications like Pinterest.com, Facebook or twitter, thenfor the male students, they can get distracted by cell phone game applications or video streamingapplications. This continuous distraction will affect a student’s concentration in the classroom, and it canalso distract other students around them. At the end of the term these students will fail their examsbecause during classroom hours they where playing games or watching youtube.com videos.

Cheating of exams: Since student X was watching videos during classroom hours, when it comes toexam time, they will resort to cheating. So they can decide to scan their notes on their cell phones oruse text messaging service to cheat exams. Then some students can Google exam questions and copywhatever they find online, and in most cases this data published online is not correct which results intoexam failure.

According to my view, cell phones are more helpful to students. The two major cons ‘’Distraction &Cheating of exams ‘’ can be controlled with strict guidelines on how and when to use cell phones in schools.Educators should not ban cell phones in schools, but they have to teach students on how to use cell phonesto improve their grades, teachers can create some phone text based quizzes to ensure that students arealways alert at all time in the classroom. A cell phone as a gadget is not bad, so we just have to find betterways of using it.

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3 COMMENTS

December 23, 2013 at 2:55 pmAhmed Gamal

no matter what , cell phones should be in schools , allowed … idiotic schools only ban them

March 17, 2014 at 4:58 amOriana

i feel that cell phones most definitely shouldn’t be in school. i get distracted by my phone a lot and alot of people in the school get distracted by their phones too. i’m pretty sure thats why we havecomputers now. so people can do their work and not be as distracted by people sending them textmessages and snap chats and stuff like that. also people are stupid now a days thinking they wontget caught sneaking a message in class, trying to hide it under their desk and stuff.

March 18, 2014 at 9:45 amKarehka Ramey

Hi OrianaTrue there are a lot of factors to consider in that debate.Its great though you see the importance of focusing in class keep up the great work.

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