Allowed In Class
Cell Phones: Should they be Allowed in the Classroom?
Devon Leggott thought he had a lot of time to do his social studies project in class. He worked for so long on the drawing part, he lost track of time and had zero time for the essay part. With a timer on your cell phone or a measuring productivity app, this would not happen. Many people believe that students should not be allowed to have access to their phones in class. There are many reasons why this statement is wrong. Some of those reasons are that they can be used for educational apps, making presentations, and the ability to measure your productivity on multi step assignments. First of all, having a cell phone and class can be used for educational apps, such as a calculator or flash card apps. Although students might take advantage of this opportunity and text in class, there are ways a student can learn with a cell phone. You …show more content…
Most projects have many steps and if you are into your project you can easily lose track of time. If you are dedicated to one specific part of a project and lose time, that one part will be very good and the rest of your project will not be very good. You will not have time for the other parts so you will rush. You may get a good grade on that one part of the assignment, but your grade will most likely average out to not a good grade. An evened out project is likely to score higher than the other. But here are apps or even just the simple timer on you phone that can help with this. Say you have one hour to complete a project and there are 6 steps. Set your timer for 10 minutes for every part of the project. Your projects will be an evened out project and you will get a good grade. Using cell phones in the classroom can help with learning for students. They can be used for educational apps, used for presentations, and used to measure productivity. Like Devon you will not lose track of time ever again if this gets
Devon Leggott thought he had a lot of time to do his social studies project in class. He worked for so long on the drawing part, he lost track of time and had zero time for the essay part. With a timer on your cell phone or a measuring productivity app, this would not happen. Many people believe that students should not be allowed to have access to their phones in class. There are many reasons why this statement is wrong. Some of those reasons are that they can be used for educational apps, making presentations, and the ability to measure your productivity on multi step assignments. First of all, having a cell phone and class can be used for educational apps, such as a calculator or flash card apps. Although students might take advantage of this opportunity and text in class, there are ways a student can learn with a cell phone. You …show more content…
Most projects have many steps and if you are into your project you can easily lose track of time. If you are dedicated to one specific part of a project and lose time, that one part will be very good and the rest of your project will not be very good. You will not have time for the other parts so you will rush. You may get a good grade on that one part of the assignment, but your grade will most likely average out to not a good grade. An evened out project is likely to score higher than the other. But here are apps or even just the simple timer on you phone that can help with this. Say you have one hour to complete a project and there are 6 steps. Set your timer for 10 minutes for every part of the project. Your projects will be an evened out project and you will get a good grade. Using cell phones in the classroom can help with learning for students. They can be used for educational apps, used for presentations, and used to measure productivity. Like Devon you will not lose track of time ever again if this gets