A Distraction in the Classroom: Mobile Phone Mobile phones play an important role in everyday life as one of the biggest part of communication network. Nowadays, it does not matter how old or young they are, everyone carries his mobile phone in his pocket. Under these circumstances, it is impossible that students do not bring their mobile phones to schools and do not use their phones during lectures. Since the effects of the use of mobile phone in classroom are discussed by researchers, the purpose of this paper is to give information about problems of the use of mobile phones in classroom and solutions about these problems. The aim of the study conducted by Tindell and Bohlander (2012) is to investigate the students’ manner about mobile …show more content…
The number of participants was 47 and they were divided into three groups. While listening the lectures and taking notes, the control group did not use their mobile phones. However, the law-distraction group received 12 and the high-distraction group received 24 text messages, and groups responded the messages. After taking notes, the participants reviewed their notes in 3 minutes, and then replied a Free Recall Test and a Multiple Choice Test. The results indicated that there was a negative relationship between texting and test performance. The control group was significantly successful than the high-distraction group in multiple choice and free call tests. Furthermore, the number of details in taken notes was higher in the control group; that is, there was a significant difference between the control group and the high-distraction group. That is; the use of mobile phone affects students’ success in a bad way both on tests and note-taking. The researchers of the study suggested that instructors should put a summary of the results of the study in course syllabus. In this way, students can see the potential results of the mobile phone usage during lectures. By informing to students about the effects of mobile phone usage in class, the instructors may reduce the frequency of
Rubinkam’s Texting in Class is Rampant explains how most highschool and college students use their phones during class and lectures. Rubinkam reports that , “The anonymous survey of 269 Wilkes students found that nine in 10 admit to sending text messages during class-and nearly half say it's easy to do so undetected. Even more troubling, 10 percent say that they have sent or received texts during exams and 3 percent admit to using their phones to cheat.” Rubinkam uses logos to show how many students use their phones during class. The amount of students that do is frightening to most teachers because most teachers do not even notice it.
Buying materials for the classroom aren’t as cheap as it used to be from pens to pencils or even notebooks and calculators, phones can do the same thing any of these materials can do. Materials for school aren’t cheap anymore, that's why students should be able to bring their own phones to class and use them instead of charging the schools thousands of dollars to buy materials when that money could go towards the refurbishment of the school. Though cell phones are currently banned in many classrooms, they moreover are used to improve the student’s academic lives. Teachers in classrooms around the world have to buy supplies for their classrooms, they aren’t ordinarily funded. If a student was to bring in their cell phones they could be used
Amongst schools throughout the nation, the cell phone policy has been tested and altered to fit the restrictions on their use by students. The different advancements in technology have influenced many teachers and staff to allow leniency to cell phone use in the classroom, with the belief that they have purpose to assist in everyday learning. Others believe they have no place being on school property during school hours since loss, theft, or damage is possible. In addition, cellphones can be a distraction in classrooms which factors in faculty deciding what is to be done about cellular devices on the campus. The use of cell phones should not be in schools because of the amount of distraction it poses on kids, cheating that becomes easier in classrooms because of them, and the safety concerns it raises.
After observing the clients behavior, it is evident that she has a problem limiting her excessive cellular device usage. Therefore, the behavioral intervention plan will be targeting the client’s cellular device usage in class, as well as outside of class. The plan will be targeting all cellular device usage, which includes playing games, texting, scrolling though social media sites, and finally listening to music. To prevent the client from using her phone during lectures, the behavioral plan instructed her professors to make her write an essay whenever she is using her phone.
Of course, the teacher does not have total control over each student, there are means by which an instructor can yield the results she/he is looking for. Although our authors both bring up strong points about the use of cell phones in classrooms, they sometimes overstated the degree to which they are disruptive. The authors also give a good idea as to how the reduction of cell phone use would help classrooms become better learning environments with more respect for instructors and peers and how one’s grades have the possibility of improving once their cell phones have been put away. If purely stating these ideas to students would not help the students use their phones less, then incentives or penalizations can be offered by the instructor to make such a problem
Sixty five percent of students sneak their phones in school, and are distracted by it.” This means that other students are losing focus while trying to learn. Teachers also have a hard time teaching when a cell phone is constantly interrupting the class. The effect of this are students and teachers will not be able to continue on working lesson plans. The Results of this is kids falling behind on subjects and performing worse than schools who ban phones.
Could Phones in Class Be the Key to Learning Seeing a kid in class with their phone out, your first instinct will be telling them to put it away. Although cell phones can be a distraction and used for entertainment purposes they could be used for so much more. Phones should be allowed in classrooms to use as a learning tool, it will help students organize their work, and is cheaper than buying more technology. As you may know, schools are strict on their no phones in class rule.
Kennedy Hamlin Mrs. Gallos English 3 Honors 29 March 2018 A Twenty-First Century Problem: Cell Phone Usage in the Classroom Even though banning cell phones reduce distractions in the classroom, phones should be allowed in the classroom, but restricted to school work because it offers more learning opportunities and gets kids excited about learning. There are numerous benefits and downsides to allowing technology in the classroom. Having cell phones and other electronic devices in the classroom can be integrated into the curriculum. However, these resources might also be harming the children who use them repeatedly over time.
Have you ever think about the effect allowing students using phone in school? B. General Statement: mobile phone is such a wonderful tool for communication, education, work, information and somehow we wonder how we survived before this. By looking at its benefit, do you allowing students using handphone in school? How much it will effect student’s life?
Have you ever considered the amount of productivity, responsibility, blocking of confusion, and the amount of satisfied office workers cell phones can make happen in schools. Well, if you are a principal cell phones could make everyday life at your schools a lot easier. ¨Using smartphones for on-the-fly research during class is a start. ¨ But a good next step is having students gather pertinent information and then learn ways to analyze the validity of their sources.¨ (centerdigitaled)
“Over the twentieth century, researchers have found that cellular phones has become a part of the lives of billions of people and has grown into one of the most important technological advancement the world has ever noticed. They were first introduced on the July 17th, 1946 to the United Stated States of America and at that time scientists worked vigorously night and day to come up with means of making communication global and wireless” (Researchomatic, 2013-2015). However, despite the cell phone’s numerous beneficial factors, it also causes negative interferences in the classroom environment, even at the University level. Therefore, I do agree that cell phones should be banned in the classroom at a University level. The nature of this research
Introduction; We life in the world where every day technology is developing more and more. There are many different types of phone and apps. Most of people especially teens use them every day. For example, British 12-15-year-olds teenagers send an average of 200 messages a week (R.Bertrand,2012). It’s clear that teenagers love their phones.
Using cell phones in class can waste their time in class discussions. The reason why the students will went to school so that the students will have knowledge. Also students will be taking pictures and the teacher will hear it say cheese and will see the flash. Also students will be not participating in class activities because of cell phones. Also if they are listening to music they will be dancing and singing and they cannot hear what you were discussing in front.
Do cell phones in class actually have such a huge impact on learning as educators say they do? Is it really relevant to ban cell phones at school? Do we really have to ban something which was already part of the school system? A simple answer to all of those questions is no. Although some schools don’t think cell phone usage should be allowed in a classroom.
While the teacher is explaining the lecture to give, students will not focus in class if they have a cell phone in hand and using it during the session. This will reflect negatively on their studies and make the children not understand anything that is given in class (Ayas & Tarman,