With today's technological advances that make cell phones widespread in almost all aspects of people's lives, it is not surprising that cell phones in schools have become the subject of much-discussed topics. There are proponents on both sides: some argue that cell phones are an inappropriate distraction during school hours, others are pupils. getting to know them and using them in the classroom. While the jury is still not working, both sides have some intriguing moments.
Mobile phone supporters claim the many benefits of using devices in educational institutions; Some of these benefits include:
- Parental involvement. Students can use cell phones equipped with cameras to shoot projects they perform in the classroom, for example, group projects that use only time in the classroom. As a rule, in these situations, students do not conduct any research or collection of such projects at home, so parents cannot see the result of their actions in the classroom. Providing students with the opportunity to use cell phones in this capacity ensures parental participation in the lives of their children, and also supports their educational development.
- Missing appointments. Teachers can enter a buddy system in which students send emails or texts to each other with details of the tasks that their buddy missed due to absence. This will save teachers the valuable time they would have in the case of assembly makeup, and bring a sense of responsibility among students for themselves and each other.
- Take notes. Students who have trouble staying in the classroom while mixing can use the camera function on their mobile phone to take notes and save them for later study and display parents or teachers, as well as classmates who may have missed part their. Teachers can also participate in photographing notes in their system of interlocutors for missing assignments and allow students to send missing information during class time to absent classmates, and also allow them to receive such information if they are missing.
- Real world tools. Cell phones usually have features such as calculators that most secondary schools require. Using the function of a cell phone calculator can teach students the skills of actually using what they have to calculate math problems in their daily lives.
- Improve focus. Students with cell phones that have musical capabilities and ear inserts can use them during homework periods or in cases of independent study. Many students find that listening to music is a relaxing learning habit, and learning learning styles indicates that some students learn best by listening to music while working at work or reading. Students who feel comfortable while studying, often study longer, more often and give more positive results than those who do not listen to music.
- Fraud. Responsibility for using a mobile phone, regardless of the age of the user or the place from which they use the phone, is responsible. Some supporters of the ban on cell phones in schools claim that using the cell phone camera feature allows students to trick tests by photographing answer keys, test content, or responses to a neighbor.
- Contempt. Students could use their phones for all kinds of harm in the classroom, including using the sound recording function to record teachers or other staff during lectures or other conversations without knowing about the recording. Students could then use these notes to take the speaker's words out of context and present them in a flexible light.
- Incitement. Students can use their cell phones during school to cause problems for students and bully others. School violence and cases of bullying are growing, and officials already have their hands, who completely cope with problem pupils and maintain order in their institutions; allowing students to use devices such as cell phones during school hours will make them more difficult and more difficult to control.
- Illegal activities Students can use cell phones during school to carry out illegal activities, such as placing or accepting orders for drug deals, provoking students to fight each other, accepting and staking sports events or other forms of gambling, or planning events such as bomb threats and other security breeches.
- Abstraction. Almost everyone who advocates banning cell phones from schools says that using them in the classroom will distract students from their studies. Features like Internet access and video game features are most often referred to as the biggest distractions. Although the Internet can provide legitimate research opportunities, playing video games does not provide any educational benefit.
Most schools across the country ban cell phones in their neighborhoods, mainly because of their association with illegal activities and classroom abuses. Some cite safety issues, stating that students' ready access to cell phones on campus does not make them safer in the event of a violent event, even if they say that they can complicate the work of emergency services in this case. These schools also say that free access to cell phones on a school day only inflames rumors and worsens the situation of bullying among students. Thus, many of them apply the “we see, accept” policy, and also notify students and parents of the strict nature of such policies.
Some schools have begun to weaken their policies on mobile phones, while others continue to uphold their bans, even tightening their rules against the presence and use of cell phones on campus. Both sides have their own clear reasons for maintaining their course of action, and only time will tell which theory is more successful in teaching students.
