Research shows abundant advantages of using technology for learning...
But use of smartphones during class time often means text messaging and other distractions from what is actually going on in class. Ask a text messaging student a question, and the typical answer is "huh?" because the student has not been paying attention.
Even when students are using their phones for legitimate classroom uses, like note taking, the research shows that hand-written notes are remembered better.
For those reasons, my academic program area will likely ban use of smartphones in all classes this coming school year.
What do you think?
Dear Michael,
I cannot but agree with you on this. This might sound, as you have insinuated, that we are against technology. We are not. I wonder how they are doing in Japan, Korea, and Turkey, who have supposedly shifted to mobile learning. How do they manage to keep students from reading from and writing to others in the classroom.
too much use of smartphones should be banned in class rooms. During teaching and learning distraction is created by cellphone users which impact negatively on learning process.
I believe the class should be provided with the necessary technology needed to facilitate only the students best interests. You are correct, the answer is no.
We can not completely ban the use of smart phones in the class. The class activities (videos/ worksheets/ Activities)are sent to the students through mails or whatsap. So the students are expected to use the smart phones to complement their class room learning.
An important questions and important responses.
I’m teaching “mobile technologies” course for graduate students. We implement mobile learning through the course. Only collaborative, engaging and involving activities have students concentrate in the learning process totally. We see the same in schools, when teachers implement mobile learning.
In regular lectures, I can totally see the distraction of some of the students who are worried w/ their smartphones as opposed to those who are involved in the lesson w/ the smartphones in their bags or turned off. Not to say that there aren’t students who don’t use their smartphones but are yet involved in other issues, as they did in the past.
I’ve seen many students running to the bathroom in the middle of the class, where lecturers banned the use of smartphones.
I guess there are many parameters to consider and too many instances and different situations.
My experience tells that when I decide to have a productive day of work, I turn off the device and don’t read any of my emails.
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From my point of view i think phone should be banned from school, it is good to allow the students to bring their phone to classroom in that case we can implemented mobile learning, maybe teacher can altogether with students learning through mobile application for study and keep them busy by solving some questions. But, again in the practice that would be a problem about how to make sure that the students do not doing something wrong with their phone during school time, for instance in one class mobile learning is implemented and everything running well, students pay attention, answer questions and etc, on the other class there is exam, thus would be a chance for students to cheating, and bring phone to school may increase the number of bullying. So i think there should be a careful consideration to allow student bring and use smartphone to school.
I concur with most remarks above. My take is that, the use of smartphones must be a deliberate effort by the lecturer and not a mandate from management. Some baby-boomers and some Gen Y lecturers may not be as comfortable in using mobile technology as Millennials. Unless and until the lecturer buys into the idea of using mobile devices in lectures, it will continue to a borne of contention in universities that imposes the idea in the name of being relevant. Sometimes I view the use of smartphones during lectures like church-goers, where some focus more on the attire than the fundamental reason for going to church. If a member of the congregation is wearing the same attire as another person, the first to see that will choose to go back home and change. In the same vein, students will be taken aback if they realize that they infact do not own a comparative device as their classmates, and they will be demoralized, some to the extent of absconding lectures.
Interactive sessions between the teacher and students plays a significant role in kindling creativity,critical thinking unlike use of smartphones which dampens the learning process .It can be used as an added tool to speed up the activities involved in projects.
All comments have a point. I think that there is no correct universal answer to that question. Smartphones maybe useful.
It depends on the context (subject taught, teacher, legislation, students' skills, students' level).
At least it should be off.
I myself put my phone on airplane mode, when I have a lecture, conference, or operations.
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