Everyone has an opinion on whether allowing cell phones at school is a good idea or not. Read the articles below and explain your opinion on cell phones at school. Should they be allowed? What are the positives and negatives of allowing cell phones at school.
Positives about cell phones at school
Negatives about cell phones at school
Positives:
ReplyDeleteIf your cellphone is conected to the school's wifi system the students could use GoogleDocs. Which allows children to do their work and chat to others with the chat box in the corner silently instead of having a loud noisy classroom. It also allows shy children to share their oppinion rather than putting their hand up and speaking it to the whole class. Student can also ask teachers questions about their homework via GoogleDocs as well. More importantly is that it would save paper. Instead of having two or three A4 pages with your homework on it you could have one page on your phone.
Negatives:
With the amount of students using cellphones it would waste so much electricity. During school hours people would be wasting their battery power and would have to charge it regurly. A fear most people have with using cellphones at school is that commen text langauge getting mixed up with litracy and writing. Phones with cameras will start to cause privacy issues.
Positives: In canterbury if there is an earthquake or some type of emergancy they can call their parents and tell them whats happened. Also It may help the teachers by apps taking the work away from the teacher with apps to help literacy, math and lots of others. Also Teachers dont have to worry about not being able to read students writing.
ReplyDeleteNegatives: Students may text during class or use facebook, twitter or some other social networks during class which would distract them from learning. Also the phone could get broken during Lunch time or morning tea by phones falling out of their pockets.
Positives:
ReplyDeleteIf there was a major earthquake students could contact there families quickly and safely ( no hassels) People could do thère work on there phone then txt it to the teacher so no trees would be being wasted.
Negatives:
People can get distracted in class so nobody would be able to learn and also in a test they could txt the answers to each other so nobody would get a fair score coz it was judged on someone else's thinking and problem solving also there could be discrimination because his phones better than hers and such carry on
Erin
positives:
ReplyDeletewell if something happened like some of your family was caught in a car crash then the emergency survice could ring and tell you that they were caught in an accident.
negatives:
the chidren could be texting in class and getting distracted and they could be saying bad things about people or talking on the phone when the teacher is trying to say something or when it is supposed to be silent.
Ben
(puddles)
positives:
ReplyDelete*it’s really good because you don’t have to chase children around
*as they work they use Google chat which lets students send and receive messages to ask the teacher and other students’ questions
negatives:
*phones interfere in learning
*students would get used of text language and it would effect there literacy skills
*cell phones have been used as a form of harassment
*it’s also a chronic cause of conflict
Abby
Positives: They could use them to google the answer
ReplyDelete-they can discuss there questions as a class without interupting anyone.
-if there was an earthquake students could contact their families quick
-Practisisng fine motor skills
-they are keeping up with modern technology
Negatives
-Kids will get distracted
-It will effect their spelling
-text bulling
-peer pressure on those who do not have cellphones
-if they use them to often later in life they will get atheritus in their thumb/finger
-People will have to spend a lot of money on cellphones
-technology is always changing so it is hard to keep up with it
POSITIVE.IT WOULD MAKE THE CLASSROOM MORE QUIET.
ReplyDeleteIT COULD HELP IN EMERGENCIES.
IT COULD HELP STUDENTS FIND AN ANWSER.
NEGITIVES.COULD EFFECT SPELLING.
EFFECT SPEAKING SKILLS.
DISTRACTED.
BY LANCE
Lance, Why is it all in capitals?
DeletePositives:
ReplyDeleteCellphones are used every day and can be used for many things such as goggle and texting and phoneing people when you need to. the recent earthquakes have scraed lots of people and we have had some very big shakesIf the power lines went down in an earthquake like they have done cell phones are used to find out where your family are and where you can meet They are olso away for your parents to contact you if they need to for example if your parents couldnt make it to pick you up then they can text you to let you now if you are going home with someone eles or if you should take the bus ect. Ithink that its a great Idea to have your pjones at school though the most aprpriate action would be to hand it into a teacher or at the office like we do now.
Negatives:
Celphone s would be a distraction in the classroom which would be a prloblem as like I said it would cause distraction in the classroon which could effect your clss mates and yopur learning abiltity though it would be interesting to conduct a survey where If we want we can bring our cellphones to school for a wek and compare acidemiclly better or worse we are from when we dont have celphones at school to when we do.
Petra:)
Positives
ReplyDeleteWell you could go online and search up things you might want to now
You could type things up on your phone if it was a iPhone or something like that
You would be able to get apps on your phone that help your education
Could get stuff like timers on your phone you dont
Also they would be really usefull in an emergency for instance when there's an earthquake at school and you have to sort out a time to get picked up or if somethings holding your parents up so they'll be late or something's happened to them
Negatives
Taking photos and sending them to other people that aren't very nice
Texting rude things
Texting in class
Distracted by them
Bullying with them
Wouldn't help your spelling it would make it worse
positives
ReplyDelete-you can use google docs to ask other students or the teacher question without talking.
-you dont have to chase people around.
-in case another earthquake happens it will be helpful if you if you need to call someone.
-help students find the awnser.
-help with using the internet in case you need to find some information.
negatives
-interfere with learning.
-get distracted.
-make some kids write text language rather than english.
-texting in class.
-bully other students.
-texting rude things.
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Negatives
ReplyDelete1)peer pressure
2)It will in fluence the Primary students
3)It will ruen there literacy and writing skills
4)It will destract them from learning.
Positives
ReplyDelete1)they can go on google
2)they can send questions to there friends and teachers
3)they can send there homewok through
yes! I think cellphones should be aloud at school because they can be a benefit for learning.And the teachers could easily just mark something as wrong if people began to write in slang.
ReplyDeleteif there was a major emergency they could contact their parents faster, which is needed due to the earthquakes we've had recently.
By Emily.
The positives are that you can hook it up to wifi to look up things and if needed if there was an emergency.
ReplyDeletethe negitives are that people could text mean things they could use them in class when they are suppose to be learning
by Courtney :-)
the positives about having cellphones at schools
ReplyDelete-if there was an emergency they could contact services fast
- they could help us with learning
-they could send there homwork to there teachers who could then print it
the negitives about having cellphones at school
-they could text in class
-they could play games on there phone and not listen to the teacher
-they could get distracted
my opinion is not to have cellphones at school
ReplyDeletePositives:
-students could reasearch awnsers to a teachers question
-go on google to use like a dictionary
-students can ask teachers questions while they are doing their homework
neatives
-students can text in class
-peer presure on those who dont have phones
-it will hurt their writing and litracy skills
by mikayla:)
POSITIVES
ReplyDelete-Communicate with family
-Able to communicate in earthquake
-If there is an emergency you will be able to contact emergency services.
-use internet to search up information
-use dictionary
-You could find people easier
-Keep in touch with friends all the time, anywhere
-Text teachers to tell them if your sick
-You can use camera to capture moments all the time
-Use it to listen to music on bus or in other non class like places
-Easier acsess to internet
-Gives you something to do
-Help with learning
NEGATIVES
-phone bulling
-May distract from learning
-May not play outside and talk to friends
-May txt in class
-They could cheat on tests