Cell Phone Uses In School

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In today’s society everywhere we look people of all ages and genders are parading with their cell phones. Whether we are driving, walking down the isle in the grocery store, or even in class, cell phones have become a part of our everyday lives. However it is always a controversy in the classroom between teachers and students whether cell phone usage should be allowed in school. Students like me enjoy texting during their classes, but teachers however, greatly oppose to it .Some of the reasons why I believe we should be allowed to use cell phones in school is because of some of the helpful applications that can come with them such as Remind101 is a free site is created for teachers and students to seamlessly create text and/or email reminders for assignments, projects, quizzes, tests, labs, class activities and homework. Teachers create accounts, upload syllabi, and insert all class projects, activities, homework and assignments. Then students can log in to Remind101, search for their class, subscribe to the class, and automatically start receiving all reminders for the class activities. Another one of these amazing applications that could greatly help students out is study boost it connects with mobile phones. You create an account on Study Boost, then you can create your own “batches” of study questions. You can subscribe to the study questions via cell phone (you can also view them on the mobile web). In addition you can share your study questions with friends, teachers, and others so they can also review on the go. And another application that helps with the class rooms is tweet call. Your students can dial in (1-877-TweetCall), speak their tweet and it instantly shows up on Twitter as a speech to text translation! If you have a class twitter account or your students have accounts to use for learning, you know that some students do not have

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