Separating teenagers from their
mobile devices can be difficult, but we should do this for their own good.
Usages of mobile devices should be avoided, especially during school time.
There are common drawbacks of allowing students use mobile in schools.
Studies show that schools that forbid
students from using or bringing mobile phone
into the classroom produce improved grades. Without smartphones, students can
be more attentive and this will encourage higher scores. This applies for both
younger and older children, but the effect can be more pronounced on students
older than 15 years old. There are more troubles with at-risk students,
and without smartphones, students will experience significant educational bump
and the effect can be felt more on at-risk students. This could apply on
children who require special education, due to subpar grades. In this case,
at-risk students should get all the advantages they need to achieve better
grades at school.
Studies have shown that there are
risks of allowing children to spend too much time with mobile devices. Many
children spend more than six hours in from of TV, mobile devices and computers.
Younger children need to be free from screens and it is important for them to
experience outdoor activities.
When communicating through online
messages, children and teenagers can be quite vicious verbally. At school, it
can be quite difficult for teachers and parents to police this kind of
behaviour. However, direct transmission of messages through Twitter and
Facebook between students can be reduced, if they are not allowed to use mobile
phones at school. Students should feel quite safe at school and without using
mobile phones, they feel less needs to check the social network accounts
continuously. Parents and teachers could also make sure that students won’t
post harassing or cruel messages to one another. Cyberbullying could cause real
problems in real, verbal interactions and physical contacts could occur between
them.
When discussing the use of mobile
phones at school, there’s always the debate about how mobile phones are
essential during emergency situations. In this case, schools should make sure
that they are able to contact parents and emergency services immediately when
something happens. It is more important to prevent children to wade through
many non-emergency, distracting messages during the day that can really affect
their educational performance. In fact, this allows more important messages to
get noticed and schools should allow parents to relay their messages to
students.
