Case Study: Let's Provide A Better Class For Students

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Wenrui Zhao
Professor: Robert Tindall
LA202 OL14
27 November. 2014
Let`s Provide A Better Class For Students
The most challenging problems for modern teenagers are make the right chose and resist the negative temptations, while these attractions and temptations are natural, they can also lead to bad choices. When they are too unsophisticated to control themselves, our society have responsibility to protect them to grow healthily. The smart phone should be the biggest innovation in the modern society. Mobile phones are used around the world, there are no definitive rules regarding their appropriate use(312), they bring us convenient contact method and provide us richer experience. But also, the phone use affect teenagers` life in a negative way, even just
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Even worse, some students also utilize cell phone for cheating during the text. There is a survey about the effects of the classroom cell phone use on expected and actual learning, the result indicate that students expect texting to disrupt their classroom learning, and that texting does disrupt learning. The real score declines (27%) approximated the expected declines (33%)…The corresponding declines for self-report and experimental measurements suggest that students are aware that using cell phones for personal communication in class compromises classroom learning(ARNOLD, 323-332). These data have strongly proved the importance of the problem.
To solve this issue, it is not enough to just make the cell phone policy in school, the best way would be installing the signal mask device in the classroom and make it keep working, no matter during the class or the exam. Because we won`t use something that is useless to us, in this came, why don`t we make cell phone become useless, after then can students spend more time

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