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Advantages Of Using Cell Phones In School

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Every school system always makes a big deal over students using cellphones in class. We always see teachers on their cell phones during the school day and don’t get any repercussion. I agree that students should be allowed during class to have usage of their cell phones. Maybe the student was doing some work from another class that they missed or taking notes on something that’s important for the lesson they had from another class. School systems should ease up on how strict the policy is and allow students to use cell phones during the school day. Students could have ways to allow them to be interactive and participate on the lesson in class from their phones. Students can have different ways to research topics for a report or presentation that they were given. Students might have an emergency or no way to get home and need to call an adult to assist them. There are many ways that cell phones in school are beneficial but let’s sum it down to three reasons. First of all, most students have a phone and phone usage in class can allow students to be interactive and participate on the lesson. Teachers have many online sources to assist students in class and having those at students fingertips helps the students better understand the lesson. Teachers could use like a quiz game that can be accessed from the internet for each student to take like Kahoot, to help keep students interested. Most teachers want their students to be interested and paying attention and cell phone usage in class for the lesson can keep them on track. This is beneficial to have students interactive and participant in class, but students could be on different platforms instead of what they were told to be on. As teenagers, we are tempted at the first chance to get on our phones and get on social media. This is just how teenagers now are programmed to act nowadays. To prevent most of the students from getting off task or on social media, teachers could come around the class monitoring what the students are on. A second reason why this is beneficial, is that students can have different ways to research topics for a report or presentation that they were given. Sometimes the hardcover books aren’t enough of a reliable resource for students if

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