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whether cell phone should
be used by students
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Cell
Phones Disruptive of School Environment
School disruptions can come in a number
of forms. Ringing cell phones can disrupt classes
and distract students who should be
paying attention to their lessons at
hand. Text message has been used for cheating. And
new cell phones with cameras could be
used to take photos of exams, take
pictures of students changing clothes in gym
locker areas, and so on
Cell Phones in School Create Less Safe
School Emergency Response
In terms of
school safety, cell phones have been used by
students in a number of cases nationwide for
calling in bomb threats to
schools. In
far too many cases, these threats have been
difficult or impossible to trace since they have
been made by cell phones.
The use of
cell phones by students during a bomb threat, and
specifically in the presence of an actual
explosive device, also
presents a
greater risk for potentially detonating the device
as public safety officials typically advise school
officials not to use cell
phones, two-
way radios, or similar communications devices
during such threats.
Additionally,
experience in crisis management has shown us that
regular school telephone systems become overloaded
with calls in
times of a crisis. While
we do recommend cell phones for school
administrators and crisis team members as a crisis
management
resource tool, it is highly
probable that hundreds (if not thousands) of
students rushing to use their cell phones in a
crisis would also
overload the cell
phone system and render it useless. Therefore the
use of cell phones by students could conceivably
decrease, not
increase, school safety
during a crisis.
Cell
Phones and Text Messaging in Schools Contribute to
School Rumors and Fear
We also track
more and more school incidents across the nation
where rumors have disrupted schools and have even
resulted in
decreased attendance due to
fears of rumored violence. The issues of text
messaging in particular, and cell phones in
general, were
credited with sometimes
creating more anxiety and panic than any actual
threats or incidents that may have triggered the
rumors.
Security
Services.
rumors
typically
become
greater
than
the
issue,
problem,
or
incident
itself.
Attendance
can
go
down
overnight and rumors can fly in
minutes,
TOP NO
I
am an elementary teacher, and the answer to
whether or not
cell phones
should be used in school is a
simple
one for me.
At this level, it is
difficult to see a place for them.
With the integration of technology
into curriculum being a gradual
initiative in my building, we are not anywhere
near using
cell phones
to
enhance our lessons.
Many
of my students do not even have cell phones let
alone ones that would enable
them to
research topics or connect with others.
The pros and cons are out there, but
for me, the
drawbacks outweigh the
benefits.
According to Family
Education, a valid list of cons is presented:
?Students often forget to turn off
their phones in class, and ringing noises or
text
-message alerts disrupt
learning.
?Even if set to
silent, cell phones can still cause distraction,
since text messaging has become a
high
-tech
method of passing
notes in school.
?Students have been
known to use cell phones to call in bomb threats
to schools, to avoid or
condense
class time.
?In
the event of a widespread crisis, rampant
cell phone
use can overload
communication systems and
render them
inoperable.
?Student
cell
phone
networks add to the spread of
rumors and misinformation, which can be harmful
during a widespread crisis.
?Phones can be used as cheating devices
during exams.
?The
long
-term physical effects of cell
phone use are still undetermined.
My
thoughts on the list of cons are as follows:
?Just the other day, I had a student in
my class whose cell phone went off.
It not only took 5 minutes to
find the cell phone, but another chunk
of time was spent trying to redirect the students
and to try to get
back to the focus of
the lesson.
?The use of cell phones to
pass notes is simply a hindrance to
learning.
Students are not
engaged in the
lesson, and are showing
disrespect to the teacher. By allowing students to
have/use cell phones in the
school
setting, we are in a sense making it easier to
participate in these immature, serious actions.
?You may say that students would just
find another way to make threats if cell phones
were banned, but
why make it readily
available to t
hem? For this reason
alone, our students’ safety is on the
line.
Why take
the risk?
?The issue of
cyber bullying and sexting are becoming more and
more prevalent even in our fifth and sixth
grade building.
Many
behavior
problems stem from text
messages that have been sent back and forth and
then forwarded to other
students.
It is already an awkward enough age
without having to worry about who is saying what
about
you let alone texting about you.
?Although it would be difficult for the
age group of studen
ts that I teach to
use their personal cell phones
for
cheating, this could be a problem at the middle
and high school levels.
?According to
the National Cancer Institute, the radiofrequency
energy which is a form of radiation may be
causing brain tumors and forms of
cancer.
Research is still being
conducted, but the risk is there.
Even
at the young age of my fifth graders, we have
dealt with inappropriate text messaging and even
drug
deals/requests being made through
texting.
It saddens me that these
events are occurring among 10 and
11
year olds.
It seems as though cell
phones make these tragedies even easier.
Students think that no
one
will read their texts and that they can get away
with being inappropriate.
With the
attention span of students today dwindling at such
a rapid pace, adding cell phones into the
everyday happenings of a school day
just adds another opportunity to take away from
those teachable
moments.
My
students easily loose focus and their attention is
quickly given to the slightest interruption
or noise.
Without the
availability of cell phones, I feel that as a
teacher I can have the undivided attention
of my students.
Of course
the districts could allow cell phone usage along
with guidelines, rules and expectations, but there
will always be those students that want
to push the line as far as they can.
As the old adage goes, “if you
give an inch, they’ll take a mile”, we
could be opening up an area of technology usage in
schools that may
come back to bite us.
In an article I read by MSNBC, cell
phones in a district in Wisconsin were being used
to promote violence
through fighting.
The point here is that when cell phones
are allowed in school, they are not always being
used for educational purposes, but
instead we see a negative side.
Superintendent William
Andrekopoulos said it best in the
article when he says, “I think people have to rise
themselves up from a
level of
convenience to a level of safety.
I
think that’s where we’re at in this
country.”
Students should
come to school and feel safe.
If we, through the use of cell phones,
take that feeling of safety away from
our students, then we as teachers have
failed.
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TOP YES
I went back and
forth on this issue for a while before I came to
my final decision.
Students are
already
bringing their phones to school
–
regardless of
the school’s policy.
They
keep them in their UGGs (boots),
purse,
pocket, gym bag, lunch box, etc.
The
phones are already in school and some of them have
more
capabilities than the laptops that
were purchased.
They rarely have
technical issues, are smaller and less
cumbersome, and most students have a
cell phone
.
Today’s students, aka Digital Natives,
are well versed
in using their phones
to record sound, capture videos, take pictures,
and upload everything to websites
with
global access. As educators, instead of
concentrating on what negative things can be done
with the
cell phone in a school
setting, we should be concentrating on what
positive contributions the cell phone
can make to the classroom.
The most popular reason for having
cell phones
in school is a
safety concern.
In
Workable
Cell Phone
Policy
, the
article states that since the events in Columbine
and the attacks on 9/11, parents want to be in
closer contact with their children for
safety reasons.
While cell phones
should not be ringing during class,
they provide a direct link to a parent
or guardian should the situation arise.
My district has a policy where
the students can have a phone in
school, but they cannot be seen or heard.
Is this why the bathroom has
become such a popular place?
On a recent cell phone bill in my
house, I noticed my 17 year old son was
texting all during school and his
school has a strict “no cell phone in school”
policy.
It is too hard to
enforce, so we must look for ways to
embrace the technology that is already in the
classroom.
Cellphones into
School
talks about how with education
moving in to the 21st century we must educate
ourselves to the technologies that are
students are using.
The article
stated, “On average, there's a single
IT staff member per 800 students,
teachers, and administrators in U.S. public school
districts, compared
with one IT staff
person per every 11 users in
busines
s”.
As we
all know, having 30 students on laptops
can be a nightmare with all of the
technical issues that arise.
We have
our students sign Acceptable Use
Policies to gain access to the
internet, why not include cell phone usage in that
policy?
If we are
comfortable letting our students use
Google as a search engine, does the platform
matter?
Using cell phones for education
means many of the students will have access to a
di gital camera and video
recorder to
create digital stories that are content related.
In my district, where close to 50% of
the
student body receives free and
reduced lunch, over 90% of them have a cell phone.
This is not the case
with
access to computers (and internet),
digital cameras
, or video
recorders outside of the classroom.
Cell
phones in
Learning
contains a table showing the
data on cell phone owners.
Many cell
phones also
contain calculators,
internet access, music players, GPS navigators,
and a host of
applications that could
be useful in the classroom.
While there are disadvantages to having
cell phones in the classroom, the advantages are
plentiful.
There
is a low
cost factor, the students have them and know how
to use them, websites like
PollEverywhere
can
be used to gather instant results via
SMS messaging, and they allow everyone equal
access to digital
technology.
With proper education, for students and
teachers, cell phones will no longer be seen as a
threat or distraction any more than
colored chalk!
TOP YES
As
with all technology, there are pros and cons to
its use in the classroom.
Computers
and the internet
brought out an ability
for students to copy and paste plagiarized
material into term papers, but we still use
them in classrooms.
Cell phones
are just another
useful technology that have just as many pros and
cons to education as
computers and the
internet. Yes,
cell phones
can be a distraction if used inappropriately, but
just as we
teach our students to behave
ethically, morally, and productively with
computers, we have the opportunity
to
do so with cell phones as well.
By
banning cell phones, according to Cool Cool Cat
Teacher Blog (2009),
“we’ve pushed them
into private places of the school like the
bathrooms and locker rooms w
hich is
precisely where we DO NOT want them to
be!”
Cell phones allow
students to be more organized and instantly have
access to information and tools,
especially if there aren’t enough
classroom computers for the class.
Tools like calculators, calendars, and
maps can make students more productive.
Dr. Liz Korb, a popular blogger at Cell
Phones In Learning, adds
that cell
phones can be assistive aids for students with
visual and hearing impairments (2008).
Visually
impaired students
can use , call them, say a blog post, and it will
appear on a class blog within a
few
minutes as a text to speech function.
Additionally, hearing impaired students
can use texting to
collaborate and
communicate with the “spoken world.”
One word that comes up in countless
websites and reports about
cell
phone
use in education is ubiquitous,
or constantly encountered, widespread.
Many secondary students have cell
phones and as it becomes
more
commonplace, why not tap into the many benefits it
offers.
A study by Elizabeth Harnell-
Young and
Nadja Heym of the Learning
Sciences Research Institute at the University of
Nottingham conducted a study
about the
use of cell phones in secondary education.
According
to their results,
“Almost all students
reported greater
enjoyment in projects and felt more motivated.
In one school, the results indicated
that
the phone use in the classroom
helped students both in their social and learning
environments, thereby
increas
ing student
confidence and their work ethic.”
In a day and age where are students are
more diverse than ever, it is important to find
every which way we
can reach them.
Technology is a major component of this
effort.
While there are concerns,
certainly
o
ver proper use,
just because it can be misused, doesn’t mean we
should discard or ban the technology
from schools.
It’s about
embracing positive outcomes and student
achievement any which way possible.
TOP YES
True,
cell phones
cannot prevent
horrifying events such as school shootings, but
they do let people get
help sooner,
such as in the Columbine Massacre. In addition to
safety reasons, cell phones also allow
parents to be able to keep in touch
with their children in case their kids need to
stay after for sports,
homework
help
, or any other reason. Cell phones
should not be banned from schools, as they are
important to a person's lifestyle.
No doubt that, after incidents like the
Columbine High School Massacre and the terrorist
attacks on
September 11th, cell phones
give parents peace of mind, knowing that their
kids can be reached, and that
the
students can reach them, with just a quick phone
call.
New York
, which has
one of the nation's biggest
school
systems, has banned cell phones, and is causing a
commotion among both students and parents.
Most parents feel that it is an extreme
measure, and even a violation to the Constitution,
that schools are
banning cell phones.
It is not up to the school board whether or not a
student may have a
cell
phone
; the
parents gave the
device to their child for a reason, and it is not
the school board's right to decide where
the students can bring them, and when
they can use them.
However, despite
these convincing reasons as to why cell phones
should be allowed in schools, many
school authorities and teachers still
say
Tioga School District,
Pennsylvania,
cell phone
going off in a classroom can end the learning
process as
effectively as any fire
drill
lecture like
reasons,
which is the main argument as to why students
should be able to bring their cell phones to
school.
Another common case as to why
students should not have cell phones in school is
because school officials
claim that it
makes it easier for drug dealers to get drugs to
people, and state that
gets rid of that
problem
phones will not get rid of drug
problems in school; if an unfortunate student
has a drug addiction, then they are
most likely going to get that drug one way or
another.
Others have said that if the
parents really need to reach their child, or vice
versa, then they can use the
school's
office phone. I'm sure the office phone will be
real handy if the school's in a lock-down from a
threat like gunmen. That goes the same
for a pay phone, which further people have
suggested to use
instead of cell
phones, especially since they are cheaper. First
of all, who sees a working pay phone around
anymore? They have not been seen for
awhile since cell phones came along and proved to
be more
convenient. As for the office
phones, they are also not always around if a
student suddenly has a schedule
change,
such as a cancelled sport practice or an important
club meeting. Cell phones are handier than
other phones and should be allowed for
students to have in case they need to make a spur-
of-the-moment
call.
Sadly,
this world is not at peace; everyone knows that.
Cell phones are important to today's ever-changing
agenda so people can stay in touch with
each other. They are wonderful devices that put
plenty of people's
minds at ease with
the knowledge that their loved ones are only a
dial away.