The blaring ring tones and rippling vibrations make both teaching and learning difficult. Teachers try to prevent students from texting under desks and behind books, because students tend to pay more attention to their cell phones than lessons. However, people should also realize that a cell phone can be the next thing that can save life. Schools keep an outward appearance of being a safe environment, but you never know when student’s lives can be endangered by other kids or adults. Phones can always be turned off to prevent distractions.
Most students who are allowed to use cell phones use them for social media, and recreational apps, distracting to the point of the whole educational system; learning.. Instead of being used as educational tools, cell phones are used by students as a source of distraction and not for the academic uses they have, and students do not listen even after they are told to stop, and given rules and guidelines about what is allowed to be done on the cell phones (Kiema, Kinjo, 2015). Cell phones will end up as another classroom distraction to students without administration, so students can decide not to pay attention whenever they want and continue to talk to each other on social media. 2 On the topic of communication between students, cell phones are also the facilitator of cheating on tests between students, and they are usually also used for plagiarism, when students take an author’s work and call it their own. Students can easily use text messaging features of a cell phone to share test answers, silently and undetectable by the teacher in most cases
People who own guns need to keep them put away and out of the reach of children. Parents cannot think that because they taught their children all about guns that it is ok to keep the guns accessible to all. Parents needs to understand themselves how much peer pressure a child gets and what peer pressure will cause someone to do something they knew was wrong, but they still wanted to be in the cool bunch of kids. Or the only way someone will like me is if I pretend to shoot my best friend. So truly it is about the training of guns not the
When we discuss clothing we’re not talking about your child not having the latest Nike’s, Ralph Lauren, or Calvin Klein clothes. These children are just happy to have any pants, shirt, shoes, or even socks. Also included in this category are the more serious child abandonment, or inadequate supervision. Child abandonment is not just leaving your child and never coming back for them. It can also
The major question to ask nowadays is whether or not iPads are helpful in the classroom setting, or hurtful for the students learning experience. A common belief among school systems today is that any mobile device is only hurtful for the child’s learning environment. It is not a surprising thought to think that children or even young adults would use their iPhones to look up answers to questions on a test, if given the chance to do so. iPads also pose the same threat. School systems nowadays do not want their students using mobile devices, such as the iPad, in the classroom in fear of them cheating or being too distracted to want to learn.
For example, I would never try to speak to a baby of 9 months with long and difficult words to understand and would always try to use the easiest dialog so that they may be able to pick up, understand and repeat the work back in the correct context. For example I would not say “Thanking you so much” to a baby of 9 months when they are giving me their toy instead I would say “thank you” or simply “tar, tar”. This also applies to children who may have special needs as even though they are old enough to understand they may not be at the same rate as their age and so may still need extra support when being spoken to in order to understand and communicate. A child with special needs may not be able to talk and so may need to communicate in other ways such as sign language. By signing to a
At first glance it seems it would be equally as beneficial for adolescents to have a cell phone to help parents stay in contact and keep track of them, but with a closer look at the negative effects that a cell phone can cause to a teen’s health, behavior, and education, it becomes clear that the possible detriments far outweigh any conveniences that a cell phone may offer. The most obvious threats that come along with cell phone use are the physical risks. Young adults feel they are impervious to danger and take chances with texting and driving. In Amy Novotney’s Dangerous Distraction, she discusses some of the various studies done on the effects of using a cell phone while driving. These studies show how conversing uses different cognitive skills than other activities and takes up a human brain’s “bandwidth” (Novotney).
Teenagers of America are obsessed with social networking sites and online gaming. Literally right this second thousands of little kids are becoming obese from little to no physical activity in their daily lives. Parents aren’t helping the matter either, whether it’s because they’re uninformed or they just don’t care about getting their children involved; they aren’t doing their jobs as parents of America. This is not teaching their children to grow up to be incredible leaders of our country. According to source A, “Community Service embodies experiential learning, locating a moral center, community health, because it is about empowerment and making the world a better place…” Yet, each day kids are becoming lazier and lazier because they don’t understand the importance of volunteer work and community service.
Young children are the ones who are most on social media and they see so many advertisements it is unbelievable. Companies target children because they are too young to know the truth about what they are really eating. Children don’t care about how many calories or how much sugar s in a bowl of Lucky Charms cereal, for example. But, there is only one group that can make their children stop them from eating this, the parents. Parents have the power to not make their children eat junk food and to decrease the chances of their child ending up with a long term illness.
Kids learn how to do most things from their parents, so if their parents are doing it, they’re going to do it. “Not just their parents, but adults in general are telling them not to text and drive, but then they’re getting on their BlackBerrys and doing it themselves,” Brands said. It’s said that texting and driving is worse than drunk driving. How is that possible? Studies have shown that people thinking texting and driving won’t do any damage.