Before there was a time where people discussed which age would be appropriate for young students to obtain a cell phone. Now? They are practically giving them away at any and every age. This is why students are joined at the hip with their cell phones. I remember the days when a cell phone could only call and text, now you have the world in the palm of your hand. As an honorable high school student, I sat at the front of the class with all eyes on the front ready to learn and yearn for more. Yet, I still couldn’t concentrate with the occasional dings from the back of the class or the “OK Google” app answering questions “Mistakably”. Or the simple fact less than one-quarter of the class understood/mastered the topic for that day due to the
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The distraction of cell phones in the classroom can lead to the lack of mental development. As we can see on the news the scores of both middle school and high school end of schools test have declined over the years. Students have not retained all of the content that the teacher has taught them within the 18o days of school they have had. This meant that thy repeat a grade or they are put in an intense remediation in order to pass. Though this process allows one a short window of time retain the information again, but it doesn’t give one enough time to retain the information. So while they may obtain the bare minimum to slide along, in the long run, the student has not retained the bare essentials that they need to successfully continue their …show more content…
Yes! But now they are built into a small device call Smart Phone’s. These devices have given us barrier such as; Lack of exercise, educational distractions, and the lack of mental development. If we focused on the essential things in life we can put aside the more superficial things in life. If there were less use of cell phones not only the rate of graduates may increase but the rate of obesity may decrease as well. Putting yourself first is one of the highest honors so why not but not only yourself but your education before a device that can simply be discarded. Cell phones are not the center of the world just a small
The distraction of cell phones in the classroom can lead to the lack of mental development. As we can see on the news the scores of both middle school and high school end of schools test have declined over the years. Students have not retained all of the content that the teacher has taught them within the 18o days of school they have had. This meant that thy repeat a grade or they are put in an intense remediation in order to pass. Though this process allows one a short window of time retain the information again, but it doesn’t give one enough time to retain the information. So while they may obtain the bare minimum to slide along, in the long run, the student has not retained the bare essentials that they need to successfully continue their …show more content…
Yes! But now they are built into a small device call Smart Phone’s. These devices have given us barrier such as; Lack of exercise, educational distractions, and the lack of mental development. If we focused on the essential things in life we can put aside the more superficial things in life. If there were less use of cell phones not only the rate of graduates may increase but the rate of obesity may decrease as well. Putting yourself first is one of the highest honors so why not but not only yourself but your education before a device that can simply be discarded. Cell phones are not the center of the world just a small