I do not feel that it is necessary for students to carry cell phones during school hours. I feel it should be discouraged and any student caught carrying a cell phone should meet a stricter punishment than simply getting the phone taken away. Reasons why I believe this.
One - The student has reasonable access to communication tools and does not need to provide their own.
Second - Students are so good at texting today that they are able to do it without looking at the keyboard. This is a problem because while they are skilled at texting without looking they are not as skilled at texting while listening to a lecture or an assignment.
Third - I may be going out on a limb. I feel that texting has hurt students ability to write. Grammatically students are struggling to OMG proportions and it is not something that we should LOL about.
Fourth - Rude and disrespectful behavior. It is a difficult task to ask a number of students to learn something. It is even more difficult to get all students to learn and monitor phone use. Not to mention that it is disrespectful to the teacher and to the students who are trying to get something out of class.
I am not against phone use in general. I believe that students who are lucky enough to be give a phone should have a right to use that phone. I am only for students practicing a phone etiquette and keeping them out as distractions to a learning environment.
I believe that the only way to make this happen is to impose stricter penalties for those who are caught with phones because right now the confiscation technique is not working.
First of all i totally agree with you. your first reason is great and there are phones in the office that kids like me can use. that is true if your distracted by texting you cant listen to a lecture or anything else. that happens to me all the time i use text word and not the regular words like "IDK" instead of i don't know. i think your last reason is the best that happen in my class all the time people get in trouble just because of their cell phones.
ReplyDeleteThis is all true. I believe that when students have their phones, it not only distracts them but others around them. Other students around them are vulnerable enough to look or giggle, some of them even pull out their own phone. It causes a distraction to the people they are around.
ReplyDeleteNot to be nerdy about it but I just agree.
I agree to the max with you on this subject, because people do not need to be on their phones all the time. I know a few people who do text in school and it drives me nuts to see them just wipe out their phones during school.
ReplyDeleteI agree and disagree, because not everyone can be like me so talented because I can text and listen at the same time my mind is a complex thing and can do many things at once and another thing, i follow the rules and leave my phone in my locker because i dont want to get it taken away and if i ever do get it taken away again i would probably not get it back because my parents would be really angry with me and take it away. ;D
ReplyDeleteI agree with you on all of the subjects that you said because it is disrespectful, annoying, and because most people that text don't know how to write out their words including me.
ReplyDeletePhones have become a major part of our society. I don't really know how this will change communication in the long run or if it is a good thing or a bad thing, it just is what it is. I agree that phones should not be allowed in the classroom, but during passing time and lunch time I see no reason why students cannot use their phones. I feel like the more rules there are the more rules there are broken. The no cell phone rule is certainly one that anybody with a phone has most likely broken at one point in time. The only real way to win the phone battle is to compromise a little.
ReplyDelete