In Tamara Brenner’s “The use of Mobile Devices in the College Classroom”, she finds that cellphones commonly lead to distraction in the classroom. She does acknowledge the positive uses of mobile devices such as learning apps that can greatly impact the functionality of the college course; however, she cites many studies that reveal the student’s poor ability to multitask. A student who texted during class was found to do worse off in class when it came to note-taking and understanding the material expressed in the class. Brenner also demonstrates an effect one student has over the neighboring students. In multiple surveys, the students who surrounded the one with the phone exhibited worse test scores than those who were further away from the…
This explains why many individuals can’t ignore their cellphones because many have become socially influenced and adapted to the trends of technology. Reiner’s speaks upon “Time well spent” in our society college students aren’t showing as much dedication into being proactive and productive in their education. The amount of time being consumed on our phones attracts our attention into satisfying ourselves for the moment. It offers a type of relief from our academics and even from our personal life. Reiner had witnessed generations of college students becoming overly distracted by their interactions with social media, texting, and other features.…
One article I have read written by William McCoy “How Does Texting During Class Affect Students”. He claims college students spend greater class time than ever playing with their smartphones and other digital devices this can be distracting for any college professor or student. Texting in class is pretty darn disrespectful when you’re trying to pay attention to class lessons or lectures. If I see someone texting it is no bother to me in the least but bothers the professor who teaching. Professors should ask students to put their cells on silent during class hours.…
If they have an assignment that is due at the end of the hour, and they couldn’t get it done and would not know how to do it because they were on their phone while the teacher was talking. Their phone could be a distraction in class because if the teacher doesn’t notice and tell them to put it away then he/she won’t learn anything. When a student has their phone out then they won’t be focused on anything else, but when they don’t have their phone out, then they will listen better.…
The text “Multitasking With Smartphones in the College Classroom” by Anne Bradstreet and Rishi Rajesh and the text “Digital Distraction: Shedding Light on the 21st-Century College Classroom” by Lynn S. Aaron, and Talia Lipton deal with the main topic of how smartphone technology has caused major distractions inside of the classroom. The authors want to prove that smartphones do not enhance learning and are very distracting. I would argue that the article “Digital Distraction: Shedding Light on the 21st-Century College Classroom:” is more effective in the following areas: ethos, logos, and claims. Aaron and Lipton undeniably have more credibility than Bradstreet and Rajesh. They both have experience in this area, while Bradstreet and Rajesh…
Web. 24 February 2015. Within their article, authors Engel and Green discuss the introduction of the cell phone within the classroom and the intention for it to be used as a learning device. The authors begin by discussing the popularity of cell phones among students and how cell phones have progressed from being merely a communicational device to a device with many functions and capabilities.…
Hello, I’m Nate Sunker and I’m writing to on the urgent matter of cell phone use in secondary schools. This is an outdated policy that is overlooked by so many school executives who are chiefly looking at outdated studies and research. Newer research has shown that today’s cell phones are able to let students connect with the topic, communicate and keep safe, and improve students’ abilities inside and outside of school. Because of that, this issue cannot be ignored, and needs to be solved by the start of school this fall. To start off, Cell phones can be used to delve deeper into class at school and at home.…
When a student comes to school, he or she goes to class with the mindset and hope that they will be learning something new that day because the point of the education system in the minds of the common human being is to learn something. But in reality, most students only absorb a few concepts and ideas while the rest just seem to disappear. Because of this, many schools attempt new techniques to try to keep their students more engaged on school work and to help them succeed. That was why the iPod experiment was conducted at Duke University. This experiment was conducted to show how technology can change the way of learning in the classroom and how it can create different effects on the students’ willingness to learn as well as their excitement.…
When students are allowed to have their phones or laptops during class, they tend to be focused on their devices instead of what is being discussed in class. Allowing students to have their phones or laptops during class can distract the students from what the professor is trying to teach them. Technology’s influence on education, reading, and writing today varies. Technology is both helpful and harmful within the classroom, and also outside of the classroom.…
This neverending distraction is detrimental to learning. In fact, a study done by Beland and Murphy showed that students using a cell phone while listening to lecture is harming students’ ability to learn. Furthermore, their grades go up by a full 2 percentage points if this multitasking is put…
Even worse, some students also utilize cell phone for cheating during the text. There is a survey about the effects of the classroom cell phone use on expected and actual learning, the result indicate that students expect texting to disrupt their classroom learning, and that texting does disrupt learning. The real score declines (27%) approximated the expected declines (33%)… The corresponding declines for self-report and experimental measurements suggest that students are aware that using cell phones for personal communication in class compromises classroom learning(ARNOLD, 323-332). These data have strongly proved the importance of the problem.…
Cell Phone Usage More than 4 billion people own mobile phones. But surprisingly only 3.5 billion use a toothbrush. Cell phone usage has become a controversial topic in any school. As students tend to become more advanced,the use of these mobile devices has become very popular. While some students often misuse the cell phone, it has become a staple in many teachers’ classrooms.…
Cell phones are great, but they just cause so many distractions in school. When students ask if they can look up something, they just gonna get on social media to look at how many likes they got on instagram or how many followers they have. Since we have been talking about cell phones as our writing unit, it made me think of so many reasons why we shouldn’t have cell phones in school. One example from an article called “ Schools seek balance for cellphones in class” says that the texting, tweeting, and Snapchatting during class time is an incredible distraction, and it makes it harder for teachers to teach. Another example from the article” Schools seek balance for cellphones in class” is teachers will get kids saying “ I’ll look something up for English, and while I’m here let me quickly check my Instagram or Twitter feed’ From this article, these were some good reasons why schools shouldn’t allow cell phone usage in school.…
Today, students and teachers are affected and distracted…
In a rapidly changing world in which technology proliferates, it seems as though the global village is shrinking and people in all corners of the world are increasingly using technology for their everyday tasks, from instant communication, to shopping. “Foreign ideals and culture are easily spread and adapted by indigenous people in all corners of the globe via radio, television and now especially, computers and the internet” (Jagne et al, 2004, p. 2). Despite the fact that this digitization of the world seems to make things easier, educators are still struggling with how best to use technology (and which technologies to use) to improve teaching and learning. Teachers deserve credit for trying to relate to their students by infusing the latest and greatest technologies into their classrooms, however, the fact that they are being used does not necessarily mean that they are improving learning.…