Recently in our local news, it was reported that a secondary school student severed the hand of a parent. When asked why, the student reportedly told the police that it was because the parent took away the student's cell phone: http://cnc3.co.tt/news/doctors-successfully-re-attach-womans-hand-which-was-allegedly-severed-during-altercation-son
Have you had challenges with students being addicted to their cell phones and what strategies have you employed to address this issue?
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Debra
Scientific & electronic development both have a mixture between smile & tears for the parents & especially their children who have become addicted to mobile .Parent have to learn the example of Steve Job a founder of APPLE had refused to give the mobile in the hands of their small children . It is desirable that this simple practice should be followed by the parents using the mobile as a toy,messages & games for everyday playing with the negligence of their studies & other important hobbies which their age demands.
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Thank you so much dear Dr. Debra for inviting me to this amazing session. I am trying to find very informative and useful mobile application and offering such applications to my students, for example there are many application for calculating power consumption in most of mechanical systems, and by using such strategy, I create a useful usage of mobiles instead of other in-useful media(s). I am following answers.
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Emad
Scientific & electronic development both have a mixture between smile & tears for the parents & especially their children who have become addicted to mobile .Parent have to learn the example of Steve Job a founder of APPLE had refused to give the mobile in the hands of their small children . It is desirable that this simple practice should be followed by the parents using the mobile as a toy,messages & games for everyday playing with the negligence of their studies & other important hobbies which their age demands.
This is my personal opinion
Loneliness is one of the main reasons for phone addiction of students. Therefore, in order to prevent students from excessively relying on the phone, the school need to take measures to limit the time of students using mobile phones; and strengthening the intimate relationship among school, family and students can help to reduce phone addiction by lowing the loneliness of students.
https://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?paperID=76793&
Nice question.
I always tell the student - Don't be a slave to technology, make technology your slave.
Let technology at the tip of your fingers do work for you and don't allow it to eat away your time. I normally tell them keep a track of your time spent on social media and see whether it was productive or not. If productive keep doing if not productive then refrain from doing so.
This situation is one of the disadvantages of civilized progress, which we must deal with and coexist withز
The mobile phone should be viewed as a tool that performs a particular function so it can not be given to children except with certain controls
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