Cell phone should be banned or should be allowed ?

  In the modern globalization, the issue of cell phones represents a contentious issue debated across the nation even it does to any generation such as teenagers, adults, children and the like. In fact, parents must determine how to deal with students in case of using cell phones in school. Consensus needs to be reach between parents, students, and educators regarding the fair use in schools. Many people believe call phones make schools less safe and less effective. While opponents of allowing cell phones in school such as parents argue that cell phones create distraction, facilitate cheating and do not necessarily improve student safety. So, what do you think about cell phones? Is advantages or disadvantages? In my opinion, I prefer the disadvantages of using cell phones in school.

Parent’s opinion:

Firstly, parents think that classroom distraction will be creates due to using cell phones in class room. Students may always text their friends, play games or browse the internet instead of paying attention in class. Students often send text message to each other and this also could distract them from their education, as well as distract the person they are texting. Parents couldn’t guarantee that their child will not use cell phone in the classroom. Students will be more interested in texting a message or browsing the internet, rather than listening teacher’s teaching or doing their homework. These advantages could harm student from being concentrate their attention in the class and also cause their examination result being worst. Therefore, parents should disallow their child for bring and using their cell phones in the school so that students could not easily get distracted in the classroom.

              Besides that, parents think that rumors can be easily spread out faster while using cell phones in the school and may harm student’s study mood and feeling. Every student has access to a cell phone and when they heard some rumor, they’ll send a text message to their friend to tell them about it, and their friend sends a text messages to another friend, and so on. Parents think that the fast spreading of rumors makes it more likely that the rumors will be worsen as it is being spread, and the quicker it spreads, the worse it gets. The main character of the rumors that they spread will be easily hurt and sad with the rumor that contains bad issue. Those who involved in the rumors will easily having closed minded and wouldn’t like to speak to anyone and also may cause bad consequences happen such as commit suicide and the like. In addition, parents will very worry about their child while the use of cell phone increased, and the overuse of cell phone can cause cell phone network to overload which means when someone is in an emergency would not be able to contact the people and provide them so help.

           On the other hand, parents think that cell phones also help students cheating in their tests, quizzes, in class essays and other assignment in case also couldn’t improve their education level. Students can text another person and ask them questions on the test, or assignment that the teacher given. Some of the students whose cell phones have internet access may look up their answer on the internet and also use the calculator function to solve their math problems or store as a “cheat sheet” in their phone. Parents think that teacher could pay attention to their child, but they cannot watch all of them at the same time. During a test may more easier to catch a student while they were cheating, but during regular class, teachers may easily miss and couldn’t catch the student who were cheating. So, parents would like to suggest that school should set some cctv in the class to ensure student will didn’t have chance to cheating either during exam or regular classes.

Teacher’s opinion:

The con of using mobile device in classroom is cell phones can be used in cheating for quizzes and examination. From the perspective of teacher ,  student can asking answer from each other with texting  when exam and this show the disrespect to teacher and cause the cheating ‘culture’  in school. In some cases, student will capture some pictures of important things that could remind them of the answer before test. Besides that, having the capabilities of surfing the internet on the phone allowed students to have opportunity to cheat. Student can refer to the internet for answers on a test. Mobile device is useful but not in classroom because it leads students to cheating and discourages them from working hard. 

The website which name as “Youtube” contains a lot of video s that uploaded by students from their cell phones of classroom activity but most of the videos are capture clandestinely .For example, student uploaded a video of a poor teaching of a teacher in school .From a that teacher’s view, this will ruin his or her image in school or his social circle and able to spoil the mood of teaching or the confident. Besides, the variety function of cell phone cause rumors among students.  Many children have found themselves to be victims of cell phone abuse. Students often use cell phones to spread rumors and misinformation. This misinformation can be difficult for the victim to digest and can be quite stressful for a young child to comprehend. This act of misinformation has resulted in the death of several children after their private information had been spread with the use of cell phones. This will cause the difficulty of teaching increase in classroom due to the psychological unbalance of victim or victim‘s friends. 

Lastly, the use of cell phones in classroom also causing distraction. Student can easily be distracted when their phones ring or vibrate, and the learning process will be totally disrupted when most of the students busy with reading messages or texting. The use of smart phones will encourage student surfing the internet when it is not needed. Using phones to play games in classroom also will disturb the study environment although the phone is mute situation. Teaching also will be distracted in middle of process when a teacher could not teach properly.

Principal’s opinion:

First of all, students are able to contact their family members during emergency immediately without delay if they bring along their cell phones to class. It is understandable that some students tend to have problems concerning health or family issues that require them to have their cell phones along with them especially their parents are in outstations, they might be contacted with siblings in case of emergency as they take over the roles of their parents temporarily. Next, students can search for the required information about tasks that their teacher had given them easily and efficiently. From the view of a principal, I think this is quite true as the rate of learning in class will increase dramatically once they can cope up with the teacher about the lessons.

In addition to that, students can draft out their time schedule with their cell phones around them in class. From the view of a principal, the school can save loads of papers as the school teachers often photocopy simple stuffs such as the class timetable to students. Well, with cell phones, students can just easily record them down as teenagers would catch up with new technology fast. Students will not forget and will be always reminded by their phones, isn’t this step killing two birds with a stone?

On the other hand, there are also cons in using cell phones in class by students. The main ones would be causing distraction to the students as cell phones are advancing more and more to the high tech cyber world. Games, applications with funny interesting things will easily distract them from concentrating in class for lessons. Well, these circumstances will result in the decrease rate of results improvement of students and thus causing the students to be spoiled by technology. Besides that, unwanted rumors and false statements will occur in a large matter easily. For example, students can simply spread negative rumors about others with just a few clicks on the phone, which is very dangerous and troublesome to the school.

In conclusion, students have to be more rational in their way of thinking and behaviour if they want to bring their phones to school. The government now is only scare of the possibilities of the cons to happen and therefore they do not allow students to bring their cell phones to school. So all in all, it all depends on the behaviour of the students. Thank you.

WRITTEN BY,

KEVIN KHAW

WINSENT THE HUN TEONG

NG HEAN LUN