Imagine sitting through class trying to focus while 95% of your classmates are constantly taking pictures, texting, and checking their social media. Your brain is unable to focus on the simple words coming out of the teacher's mouth because of constant laughing and giggling all around the room. The teacher has absolutely zero control considering it is impossible to monitor every single screen. Photos are being taken of the one anti-social classmate that no one really talks to are waiting to be posted, while groups in the class point and laugh. Your best friend since kindergarten James is being suspended from the football team because he started to fail half of his classes. You look back at him and he is laughing while his eyes are glued to
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Students would spend their crucial class time texting, instagramming, snapchatting, facebooking, and overall not working. Professor Barney McCoy, a multimedia teacher at University of Nebraska-Lincoln, conducted a study in 2015 of what college students were doing on their cell phones during class that took away from their education. In an article explaining how much work college students actually get done, Dian Schaffhauser cites McCoy’s study and writes, “the most prevalent form of distraction was texting, reported by 87 percent of students in the 2015 study. At 76 percent email came in second, closely followed by "checking the time" at 75 percent. Social networking was reported by 70 percent of respondents, Web surfing by 42 percent and game-playing by 10 percent.” If students are spending their class time on their cell phone even when it is not allowed, permitting use of cellphones in class will be more of a distraction. Amanda Lenhart, a senior research specialist at the Pew Internet & American Life Project states that, “92% of teens report going online daily.” If this many students check their phones every single day, this same percentage of the class will be going online while they are supposed to be learning. Others disagree that cellphones can be used for new ways to learn, but many classrooms around the U.S have this technology already. As a result, none of assigned work would be …show more content…
They are an absolute distraction that allows students to be cyber bullied more than usual, which also takes away from face-to-face interactions. There is simply no positive effect of cell phones in class that most learning environments don’t already have. All people need to realize that students should not be able to use their phone in school and vote against it. If not, the generation of kids and teenagers will dramatically suffer in their future and have no
Students would spend their crucial class time texting, instagramming, snapchatting, facebooking, and overall not working. Professor Barney McCoy, a multimedia teacher at University of Nebraska-Lincoln, conducted a study in 2015 of what college students were doing on their cell phones during class that took away from their education. In an article explaining how much work college students actually get done, Dian Schaffhauser cites McCoy’s study and writes, “the most prevalent form of distraction was texting, reported by 87 percent of students in the 2015 study. At 76 percent email came in second, closely followed by "checking the time" at 75 percent. Social networking was reported by 70 percent of respondents, Web surfing by 42 percent and game-playing by 10 percent.” If students are spending their class time on their cell phone even when it is not allowed, permitting use of cellphones in class will be more of a distraction. Amanda Lenhart, a senior research specialist at the Pew Internet & American Life Project states that, “92% of teens report going online daily.” If this many students check their phones every single day, this same percentage of the class will be going online while they are supposed to be learning. Others disagree that cellphones can be used for new ways to learn, but many classrooms around the U.S have this technology already. As a result, none of assigned work would be …show more content…
They are an absolute distraction that allows students to be cyber bullied more than usual, which also takes away from face-to-face interactions. There is simply no positive effect of cell phones in class that most learning environments don’t already have. All people need to realize that students should not be able to use their phone in school and vote against it. If not, the generation of kids and teenagers will dramatically suffer in their future and have no