Many people talk about the lack of social skills due to excessive texting, but what about the effects on teen’s schoolwork? What about the effect on their futures? Literacy plays a role in every aspect of adult life. Is text messaging causing problems down the road for teens? Many people don’t know that 64% of students incorporate text language into their writing.
A huge problem facing teachers is the camera phone. Pictures of tests and worksheets float around the cell phones of many students, as said in a survey put together by John Orbinger and Kent Coffey, ’21 percent of students who bring cellphones to school have video/photo capabilities on their phones (Carroll, 2004).’ Not only are cellphones are the main cause of cheating, but is also a huge source of distraction in the learning environment. This point is also stated in the previously mentioned survey ‘Cell Phones in American High Schools: A National Survey’, “cell phone use could be a significant distraction during instructional time”(Orbringer and Coffey, 5). Teachers who do not have strict cell phone policies in the classroom have to fight for the attention of their students. Cell phone use has caused a huge rise in cheating and plagiarism.
(Hadzay)” Teachers are beginning to complain that texting is ruining grammar and that teenagers are forgetting how to speak proper English. The biggest problem with texting is the fact that teenagers are spending more time texting than paying attention in class. If you go into a classroom and look at how many kids are texting in school the numbers may be surprising. It’d be even more surprising how many of the students are texting their parents about dinner or rides home. The students are so into their phones even when they go home, they disrespect their parents so much by texting at the dinner table.
CIS111-Issue Analysis Dr. Joanna Cattafesta University Of Kentucky It is averaged that over 80% of teenagers are on social media regularly. Between cell phone use and computer technology developing, younger generations are becoming more apt to the use of technology. “Teenagers in particular use media for many purposes, including entertainment and distraction, but also exploration of significant developmental issues pertaining to curiosity, education, popularity, identity, gender roles, and sexuality”(Reaves, 2011). The media has become a problem in our day and age by brainwashing teenagers and giving them an unrealistic view on life. We live in a society and culture that values an individual’s beauty and thinness.
The New Teen Age: 7 Ways to Support Teen Bullying Victims. Retrieved from http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-new-teen-age/201010/7-ways-support-teen-bullying-victims Thesis: Bullying in schools and on the Internet amongst teenagers has greatly increased in the past years; this has led to increased fatalities because so many feel that they don't have anywhere or anyone to go
Although laws are being passed to prevent cyber bullying on school property, it is still occurring because of many educators that feel unprepared or unwilling to handle these situations. Some are unsure of the extent of their authority. School district discipline codes often say little about incidents that occur over student cell phones, home computers and off-campus speech because the majority of the instances will occur after school is let out
However, text messaging has been a major problem with students texting in class interfering with the disruption of their learning. Most teachers express how they feel about cell phones being a distraction to others, however very few students have complaints about the use of cell phones in class. Text messaging in class should be allowed by choice of the students, it can easily be discreet and the possibility of an emergency. Text messaging in class should be allowed by the choice of students. In the argument “Tapping into Text Messaging” by Janet Kornblum, says teens, techies and other early adopters leading the charge to text say it is a great way to communicate when they are too busy to talk or when making a call would be rude or impractical.
This quote shows that the bullies are more concentrated on bullying their victims rather than their school work. This quote also shows that bullies are not very concentrated in school and will probably fail in school and not get a good career. Another example that shows that students are beginning not to care about school is, “Many of the victims are disengaged in school” (Wolpert 1). This evidence is important because the victims are scared of bullies and are really not concentrating in school like before they began to be bullied. Multiple victims who are hurt from being bullied are starting to fail in school.
Among the years technology has become a great part of our lives. Technology has developed throughout the years now if you see somebody in the bus or the train or running outside in the street they will be on their cell phones or listening to music or maybe even on their computers. We use them in everyday of our activity talking to your Family texting your friends or even sending out an email to a professor. It has become so much of an addiction that us as students and teachers even use them in school. My hypothesis for this paper is that at least more than fifty percent of students use their cell phones while in class whether is texting and/or browsing on their internet.
(Rigby, 2007) Bullying has become an alarmingly huge part of today’s school society. It comes as an even bigger concern that not only is the bullying restricted to the school yard but now days many adolescents have access to social media sites such as Facebook and twitter along with mobile phones. This brings a much bigger issue to bullying within the school as it makes it a lot harder for teachers and parents to analyse and control what is happening between peers. Something that we often overlook is that bullying can also happen between teacher and student. Either the teacher or student can be the bully/victim.