Smart Phones in School: A Teaching Tool or a Distraction?
Smart phones have become the “norm” in our society. Almost everyone has a smart phone, more commonly a smart phone. Smart phones allow users to access vast amounts of information right at one’s fingertips. Smart phones also allow the user to communicate instantaneously with their closest friends and loved ones through calling, text messaging, and various forms of social media. Smart phones have become a part of our daily lives and ourselves, from the work place to classroom.
Are smart phones in the classroom a good thing or are they a bad thing? What are the consequences, both positive and negative, of allowing students to use them in the classroom? As with any good thing in this world, …show more content…
The students found that they were able to brainstorm ideas quicker, obtain new assignments or handouts from their teachers, and the teachers even found that they could use the phones to monitor the students’ attendance. William Ranklin, co-director of mobile learning research at ACU, said in an interview with Bloomberg Business, “This is a new platform for learning, in the same way a laptop or a desktop was a new platform.” (Kharif, 2008, para. 3). Ranklin thought that smart phones and other smart devices could be a worthwhile replacement for laptops. The cost of a smart phone is substantially less than that of a laptop, in fact, an iPhone, on a two-year contract with a cell phone provider, costs as little as two hundred dollars. On the other hand, a laptop can cost anywhere from five hundred dollars on the low end, up to fifteen hundred dollars, if not more. This quite a substantial price difference, and some schools and universities could save money by adapting the common use of smart phones and other devices in the classroom. Not only are smart phones considerably less expensive than laptops, they are also more readily available to students. Many students might not have access to laptops, but having a smart phone is much easier and a cheaper solution for …show more content…
In the age we live in, it has become ever increasgly easier for students both in public schools and in universities to cheat on assignments, projects, and tests. One of the biggest culprits in this problem is the increase use and popularity of smart phones and other smart devices. These devices allow students to access websites where they can find answers for exams and other assignments. Smart phones and other devices also enable the student to take pictures of answer sheets or cheat sheets with their mobile device and send that picture to anyone of their friends or
Smart phones have become the “norm” in our society. Almost everyone has a smart phone, more commonly a smart phone. Smart phones allow users to access vast amounts of information right at one’s fingertips. Smart phones also allow the user to communicate instantaneously with their closest friends and loved ones through calling, text messaging, and various forms of social media. Smart phones have become a part of our daily lives and ourselves, from the work place to classroom.
Are smart phones in the classroom a good thing or are they a bad thing? What are the consequences, both positive and negative, of allowing students to use them in the classroom? As with any good thing in this world, …show more content…
The students found that they were able to brainstorm ideas quicker, obtain new assignments or handouts from their teachers, and the teachers even found that they could use the phones to monitor the students’ attendance. William Ranklin, co-director of mobile learning research at ACU, said in an interview with Bloomberg Business, “This is a new platform for learning, in the same way a laptop or a desktop was a new platform.” (Kharif, 2008, para. 3). Ranklin thought that smart phones and other smart devices could be a worthwhile replacement for laptops. The cost of a smart phone is substantially less than that of a laptop, in fact, an iPhone, on a two-year contract with a cell phone provider, costs as little as two hundred dollars. On the other hand, a laptop can cost anywhere from five hundred dollars on the low end, up to fifteen hundred dollars, if not more. This quite a substantial price difference, and some schools and universities could save money by adapting the common use of smart phones and other devices in the classroom. Not only are smart phones considerably less expensive than laptops, they are also more readily available to students. Many students might not have access to laptops, but having a smart phone is much easier and a cheaper solution for …show more content…
In the age we live in, it has become ever increasgly easier for students both in public schools and in universities to cheat on assignments, projects, and tests. One of the biggest culprits in this problem is the increase use and popularity of smart phones and other smart devices. These devices allow students to access websites where they can find answers for exams and other assignments. Smart phones and other devices also enable the student to take pictures of answer sheets or cheat sheets with their mobile device and send that picture to anyone of their friends or