effects on mobile phones at school

Positive Effects of Mobile Phones at School

Mobile phones have become a staple of our society, with everyone from elementary school kids to senior citizens owning at least one. According to Wikipedia, a mobile phone, also known as cell phone, is a device that can make and receive telephone calls over a radio link while moving around a wide geographic area. It does so by connecting to a cellular network provided by a mobile phone operator, allowing access to the public telephone network. With the mobile phones increasing demand on younger generation, there are positive effects towards the academic status of the students. From just a slow-paced communication system to a fast and advance method of communicating, all individuals are affected especially the younger generation which include students in schools. So why have mobile phones been very popular these years?
Mobile Phones mean technology. Technology is surrounding the world today. Technology has evolved so quickly has become so much more open and seems to be everywhere in our lives these days and has made our existence in this busy world much so much simpler. And these mobile phones have brought positive effects in schools. The assorted applications that cell phones are nowadays employing mean that they are a fascinating device to learn how to use. Mobile Phones have so many positive uses in the classrooms, yet at the same time we aren’t putting our current technology to good use. By keeping our community updated with all the new technologies out there will help make a more useful point to all of these new gadgets.
As a student, we feel that the use of cell phones should be allowed. In class there are not always enough calculators for every student to use, most likely every student in the room will have a cell phone, and on that cell phone there is always a calculator, allowing the use of these phones for school use they can then lower the district’s budget now being able to subtract calculators. Every phone has either a memo pad or a notepad, in schools they give each student an assignment book which is supposed to be used throughout the school year to write down their school assignments and work needed to be completed. In this world today every teenage student has their cell phone steady on hand which their school assignment book should be, but are not. In this case if students could have their cell phones in class they could put their work into their cell phones with an alarm and never miss an assignment due. I think teachers should give their students a certain amount of time to put their assignments in their phones so they will only be able to use their phones for school related things. During class the teacher may ask the students to research something, while taking the whole class down to the library would take too long, many students have internet access on their cell phones which could be used at the tip of their fingers. This would save time and would allow the teachers more time to teach. The camera devices on the cell phones can come in handy also, if a student is absent a friend can take a picture of their work and send it to their friend to keep him/her updated with missing work.
Parents think of cell phones as a connection to their children in an emergency. In most cases, contacting the hospital or the police would seem more urgent. And parents can always call the school's main office to reach their children.
Mobile phones these days come with calculators, calendars, all types of games, mp3 devices, the World Wide Web, and some with a GPS pursuing system. Mobile phones are additionally utilized to educate. A lot of the programs on mobile phones have a role in teaching or helping students. We feel there is no need to ban the use of cell phones in schools, they can help in many different ways. By keeping our community updated with all the new technologies out there will help make a more useful point to all of these new gadgets.
Internet is an influential and astute commodity. Across the net, so much can be done. Formerly mobile phones existed devised to hold the net, the downside to using the net was that one could not really be mobile while using it. Doing something while also busy on the internet was not really an option. In other words, multitasking was a problem. It was made so people could have contact with each other all the time. At that time, mobile phones hadn’t possessed lots of contrasting programs. Its main purpose was so that people could converse with each other in a much easier manner .However once the cell phone possessed the internet, it came to be an influential tool. Suddenly, we could now move around to relish the lack of restrictions of browsing the internet on the move. Not anymore did we have to be in a stationary position to appreciate the advantages that the internet provided. Across the mobile web, various apps were now accessible which has resulted in the development of mobile phones. Mobile phones grow and change above period, determined by what people’s biggest demand are. They have come to be extremely important in our lives today, and benefits as well as drawbacks exist for mobile phones being present in the classroom. Wireless networking mechanisms enables learners to transfer information swiftly and precisely. Texting undeniably means that it is now simpler accord data. Mobile phones have numerous uses, that it should be referred to some more than just a mobile phone.
The World Wide Web has become very useful in terms of students’ widening of knowledge with this, mobile phones has already adapt in this trend. Cell phones increase the ability to exchange and spread information. People with cell phones can spread the word about an important or newsworthy incident as it occurs, giving people the sense of always being "in the loop." Camera phones can enhance this exchange of information by adding a visual element.
Some teachers and campuses are beginning to take advantage of the educational potential of cell phones. On some college campuses, students can organize their schedules and take quizzes through their phones. Some high schools take advantage of educational games for cell phones. Educators can also teach students how to use their phones as research tools, which encourages youth to take more initiative in their own learning.
"Nobody’s keeping up; even the most sophisticated teacher isn't keeping up. He's too busy getting kids ready for testing."
Let’s face it, modern technology is fun, and students love to have fun. Moreover, if we bring that exciting technology into the classroom than we can create a more relaxed and enjoyable environment for the students and the teachers. If in science the students do a lab experiment then they can take a video of that lab and replay it for homework and further understanding. Furthermore, classes can download a school program onto their phones and the teachers can use it in the classroom. A study based on a survey of Advanced Placement and National Writing Project, students' access to tech at home isn't keeping pace. More than half of teachers (54%) say all or almost all of their students have access to the technology they need at school, but only 18% say students have the digital tools they need for learning at home. Cellphones are still a classroom annoyance. Even as more teachers let kids use cellphones as a classroom resource, 28% find the devices a "major" distraction, and 44% say they’re a "minor" distraction.
Teachers use the Internet at least once a week. Teachers are most likely to go online to find instructional materials (84%), keep up with developments in the field (80%) and create lesson plans (80%). Even though a majority of teachers think their schools do a "good job" of supporting their efforts, 85% also look for new ways to use tech for classroom instruction on their own. Teachers concede students are more tech-savvy. More than four of 10 teachers (42%) believe their students know more than they do about new digital technologies, compared with 18% who feel they’re more knowledgeable than their students.
Furthermore, in terms of minimizing the cost both by parents and school administrators, the mobile phones could definitely lessen it down at a higher cost, since gadgets like cameras, audio recorder, video recorder, and/or computers are somehow neglected due to the fact that advance mobile phones are up to these extreme level of usage. It can also create a database such that it records and link these data on higher aspect. Mobile phones can be used as well in doing creative stuffs such like making podcast and blogs.
These and more have become my driving force towards this study, such that it will twist the common perspective of both educators and parents so that it will be helping the education style of all institutions.
Above all of these, cell phones popularize cheating. With today’s technology, cell phones can now access the internet and take pictures and save notes containing information for tests and other school projects. Cheating also reveals short-term and long-term effects on students. Some short-term effects include receiving a zero on an assignment and failing to learn important material, while long-term effects include acquiring bad habits. So, if parents express growing concerns with the issue of cheating, why do they allow their children to take their cell phones, the root of the issue, to school? Parents want their children to display good morals, and cheating destroys this principal along with their sense of responsibility. School is there mainly for education, and to prepare people for the future but when we have our own jobs nobody will give us little warnings to put our phones away, you will be fired if you're on the phone too much or maybe even just once at the wrong time. If it distracts the student and they fail a class, then they will learn their lesson and if they don't learn that phones can be distracting then they isn’t prepared to leave high school. Phones can also be used to stop students from needlessly talking over the teacher who is desperately trying to teach when they can easily text across the classroom on a silent phone instead of interrupting the teacher and making the day that much slower. Some may argue that cell phones can be a distraction. However, if we use them correct way then maybe they shouldn’t be a banded in school. There are some very good uses to have cell phones in school. Students use them in school because there is an emergency, to keep them in contact, it’s educational sometimes. There will always be distractions in the classroom, but why not make it a distraction where other students who want to learn can still hear the teacher and not have to talk over other people?
There are few things that need to be considered when mobile phones are involved in Education and that is rebuilding the structure of these gadgets towards its positive and negative. This is due to a fact that some educators consider texting to be a major distraction, and diminishing to vocabulary, communication skills, and writing skills, others consider texting to be as valid of a teaching tool as the overhead projector. Recent studies have shown that texting in class not only has the opposite effect of what teachers previously thought but also has a positive effect on a child's ability to write lengthier papers and has made their writing skills stronger in general.
In sum, mobile phones may be harmful at the field of education but the challenge here is that by the use of multiple applications with educational purposes, the mobile phones will be one of the major keys towards another level of learning style. Students and administrators must be willing to take part in this integral growth on learning. Cell phones in class should not be banned but should be welcomed with open arms and used as a teaching tool and not a means of distraction as so many teachers perceive them to be. Texting and cell phones are the future of the world of teaching and are the gateway to higher learning. By using the text alerts to notify students of class cancelations and possible on campus threats; keeping the students safe and notified about these possible situations. Cell phones with their internet capabilities can now allow students to look up information about what ever subject they decide to want know more about. This cuts down the cost of hundreds of computers for each student and saves schools thousands of peso each year and allows schools to use the money for other things that the school might need whether it is hiring teachers. Without the use of cell phones in the classroom the world would still be bland and students would lose interest in certain subject and the system would fail.