Cell phone use within all public
school classrooms, is the way of the future.
Almost every student has a cell phone on them at all times, and to not
utilize the phone as an educational tool; is a disservice to students and
teachers. Daily, new educational sites are added to the web, and the
information on makes our access to information limitless. Students don’t use
books anymore to look up questions, they Google it. At home, students use their
phones as a means of interacting with the world, and so should teachers use
them to connect with our students.
With the increasing
fiscal strain on schools, cell phones provide opportunities for academic help,
where one to one computer capabilities are not possible. With the advancement
of devices, students can now use cell phone as calculators, cameras, computers and
note taking devices. Our students should be using them to help with research rather
than having them hid away in a locker or a coat pocket.
Cell phones can provide ways to differentiate
classroom learning, to the growing number of diverse student’s learners within
our schools. As a way of checking for understanding, teachers can use online
resources to provide instant feedback, valuable for both the student and the teacher.
Some have argued that cell phones
provide distractions that can interfere with classroom learning. Such an
argument only strengthens the need for cell phones in school, as it shows how badly we need to model ways of using technology responsibly.
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