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Should students be allowed to grade their teachers? Imagine, you are an eighth-grade student walking into your new classroom. As you go to sit down your teacher says that phones are allowed to be used in the classroom. You and your friends are extremely happy because you get to play on your phone during class. As your teacher is demonstrating how to show if a graph is or is not linear. You go home that day and you don't know how to add two numbers. Cell phones should be banned in classrooms and…

Summary: In a Japanese restaurant in New York, every person was guilty of having their phone out. The same thing happened at multiple other places. Individuals are constantly being distracted by their phones, resisting temptations. Martha Lane Fox believes that everyone should be nudged towards technology usage. She is pushing those who simply steer away from technology to start to use it. However, there is hope for those who are attached to their cell phones. By slowly easing ourselves off…

magine being in your classroom and on your phone without getting in trouble. If we were aloud to have in school it could help a lot. Also if we have our phones in school it could help save our lives during some major event that is happening. Phone should be aloud to be in school because we might need them for communication, help in an emergency, and to use them as a learning aid. The first thing is phones should be aloud in school because we might need them for communication. In the article…

I don’t know about you but when I was little I didn’t have a phone and now I see kids younger than me and have phones and that phone is better than mine! They have iPhones and it’s crazy. Somehow kids under the age of fourteen have phones and you want to know why I think it’s bad? It’s bad because when your kid gets that phone, their parents talk to them they never listen to them again. Another reason they shouldn’t have phones according to raising children.net says that kids who have phones and…

We live in a time where the Internet is in the same class as water and electricity. The Internet is a utility that everyone needs to have access to in their daily life. Internet service providers need regulation because consumers and content providers deserve to use the internet at a decent cost and speed and removing regulations only serves the ISPs. Regulation like net neutrality is a great thing for both consumers and content providers. It is important because everyone gets to access and…

NBC Miami recently featured a story regarding a danger in our correctional facilities. Contraband cell phones have been a huge issue recently. Being brought into facilities by visitors, and even drones; the issue has resulted in dangerous conditions both inside and outside the facility walls. Robert Johnson is a former corrections officer, who's personally been affected by the illegal devices, is lobbying to get legislation passed to require technology to stop the problem. Partnering with…

My first article was titled “Do Cell Phones Belong In The Classroom?” by The Atlantic. In the average high school these days everywhere that you turn and look you can see a cell phone, which may not be such a bad thing. Most schools now allow cell phones in classes merely for safety reasons alone and fear that has sparked from school tragedies worldwide. Now because of these policies there is obviously some abuse to being allowed to use cellphones during school hours, but there is also a…

The number of mobile phone users in the world is expected to pass the five billion mark by 2019. In 2014, nearly 60 percent of the population worldwide already owned a mobile phone. The invention of the cell phone is estimated to continue growing, rounding up to 67 percent by 2019. Motorola was the first company to produce a handheld mobile phone. In 1973, Dr. Martin Cooper invented the first personal handheld telephone while working for Motorola. In 2000, the first Symbian phone, the…

Phone Essay Have you ever wondered how much phones affect kids? Some people think that phones should not be aloud in school and some people think that phones should be aloud in school. I think that phones should not be aloud in school and here's why. The first reason phones should not be aloud in school is so kids pay attention in school. When kids have their phones in school they are thinking about their phones instead of paying attention to the teacher so the teachers have to compete with…

Children today have easy and instant access to a variety of television programs. According to a study conducted by the University of Michigan Health System, children between the ages of 2-5 years spend 32 hours a week watching television, and those between 6-11 watch an average of 28 hours per week (Boyse & Bushman, 2010). These statistics only tell the quantity of television viewed, and they give no indication about the quality and content of the programs. As society begins to correlate violent…