The Benefits Of Smart Phones

Through a course of time, technology has advanced itself in order to serve as a tool for humanity. It is that one aspect in our world that will continue to grow and develop itself in order to become better. One that has become accustomed in our daily living, and something that fits in the palm of everyone’s hand, the smartphone. Smartphones are defined, via Google, as cellular devices that has the intelligence to act as a computer. These cellular devices have mobile features such as a fitting size, touchscreen, running applications and has the ability to be connected with computers and laptops. Smartphones such as the eminent “Apple iPhone” or “Androids”, both serve the same purpose and its qualities is the reason why we call it the “smartphone”.

Mobile devices that contain applications which allow people to go beyond and explore its possibilities. Educational systems have partaken in this exploration of using smartphones in their classrooms. Because some schools may not have the funds to provide every student's laptops, computers, or tablets, what more useful for letting students use what they already own. But the issue with this would be that not every student may have a smartphone. This could create a digital divide with students, with those that could make use of their phones in class and those that can’t because they simply don’t have one. Cases such as these may be concerning for students that are in low-income families. Although students may share their devices with another student during an activity, the student should be able to take home their information and study the information that they have learned. You can’t do that if you share phones with another individual. Worries that rise such as cheating. There are many possibilities for students to cheat in class. Students have become clever with their smartphones and share information during a text, copy from the internet for their assignment, and texting others during an exam as well. Cheating could happen because the students have become comfortable with using their smartphones in class, and the teachers would not know that students may be sharing information with others. This becomes an issue for the instructors. They would not know whether their students may be doing something behind close doors, and teachers won’t be able to have access to any of their phones. This could lead to how engaged they are in the classroom too. Whether it is an iPhone or Android, most smartphones could switch between applications. While a student is taking notes in class, they would be going on Twitter, at the same time texting a friend, and