Leeban Ali March 28, 2012 As a student who attends high school I believe that cell phones should not be allowed during school hours! Also most of the students have it out and texting during class. Cell phones are becoming more and more of a disruption to the learning progress of students. This will have major affect on them in the long run because when it comes to tests and exams they won’t know what to do. People say that students can use their phones for emergencies at school but they can just make a phone call in the office.
Thomas Shanks Mrs. Rinker English 111 Example paper 2/8/11 Texting and Talking Texting and talking has made life easier for many people; maybe. Texting has some advantages, yet talking can have just as many. Both of them each have an equal amount of disadvantages as well and can be a major distraction, and possibly make lives harder. Many people enjoy texting because it’s straight to the point and there are no run on conversations. Texting can be very fast, easy, quiet, and efficient.
The problem arises that cell phones interfere with a teenager’s ability to execute an effective and accurate face-to-face social and written communication in an educational environment. Young people have become so much more comfortable with text messaging that many times, they would rather text someone than talk to them face to face, even when they are in the same room, the same car or the same cafeteria table during lunchtime. Social networking has created a serious breach in the ability of young people to communicate and interact with each other face to face. Most students are not even aware of their surroundings because they are busy texting. For example, Students who are sitting in the same cafeteria during lunch would text each other from one table to another.
However, they can also be used for less important reasons, such as an excessive amount of texting. One big issue concerning cell phones and teenagers is the use of cellphones in high school settings. Cell phones distract students and teachers. Therefore, cell phones ought to be banned from high school classrooms. Students can cheat on exams using their phones.
Many actions have led me to believe that technology is limiting human interactions. When I went to a public school, almost all of the kids during class were on their cell phones playing games, or texting someone that was 1 foot away from them. What ever happened to passing notes in class? Most teenagers can’t communicate with other people as well as they used to, because technology allows them to hide from real life problems. Online chat sites are another way technology is working its magic.
I personally am one of the students who you could say has a “cell phone addiction” I am the one teachers catch texting from the corner of their eye as my fingers move quickly across the screen of my Iphone during class. For this reason teachers find phones distracting. I can diffidently see why teachers get mad at texting during class because students cannot put their full, divided attention into what the teacher is saying, therefore what is the point of trying to explain something to someone who isn’t paying attention. Teachers come to school to educate students because it is their job, and they find it disrespectful if a student isn’t listening. Teachers do not get mad about cell phones in class because they are mean, or don’t want students to socialize, but they do it for students benefit.
Everywhere you look you see children texting on their cell phones. Abbreviations and shorthand language are the ways the vast majority of teenagers communicate with family and friends. There are some who would say texting leads to a decline in language and grammar skills. Others believe texting can improve a child’s grammar, reading, and writing skills. Texting hinders students from learning proper writing skills, communication/ social skills and literacy.
Most teens or kids have really bad attitudes when they are told to put their device away. “Overall, it really is distracting to use your phone at the table”(Yang), says by Diane Gottsman a etiquette expert. “You want to give your dining companion your full attention and you want to show them respect by engaging—and you can not really do that if you are looking up and down from your phone,” (Yang), again said by Diane
For college students, cell phones are part of their daily lives. Unfortunately, cell phones have become a nuisance and a new challenge for college students to overcome. As Sabrina Gibbons exemplifies in her article about how cell phones affect students, “Teachers worry about the distractions of cell phones ringing in class or students texting rather than paying attention. Cheating also ranked as a concern” (Gibbons).Especially for students, the temptation to get a quick text off in the middle of a lecture is extremely enticing. However, the distraction cell phones bring to college students affects their education and ability to concentrate on the material at hand.
The bad thing about that is the fact that if teens and preteens start handling cell phones, which they already do, they begin to text more often. This starts another problem. We send our children to school to be able to teach them how to read, write, spell and think. School is basically another way of saying we are sending our children off to a building with adults who can teach them how to think in an advanced, more complex way. They learn and memorize methods and build their way of thinking; however, texting interrupts the simple aspects of learning how to spell.