Quinn argues that cell phones have traditionally been banned from classrooms due to their disruptive nature. However, parental demands for safety reasons and the ubiquity of cell phones in daily life are challenging this policy. While cell phones were initially connected to gang activity and disrupted learning, they are now integrated into education. Attempting to ban cell phone communication altogether while allowing other technology is unrealistic, so schools must adapt their cell phone policies over time to reflect changes in technology and student communication.
Quinn argues that cell phones have traditionally been banned from classrooms due to their disruptive nature. However, parental demands for safety reasons and the ubiquity of cell phones in daily life are challenging this policy. While cell phones were initially connected to gang activity and disrupted learning, they are now integrated into education. Attempting to ban cell phone communication altogether while allowing other technology is unrealistic, so schools must adapt their cell phone policies over time to reflect changes in technology and student communication.
Quinn argues that cell phones have traditionally been banned from classrooms due to their disruptive nature. However, parental demands for safety reasons and the ubiquity of cell phones in daily life are challenging this policy. While cell phones were initially connected to gang activity and disrupted learning, they are now integrated into education. Attempting to ban cell phone communication altogether while allowing other technology is unrealistic, so schools must adapt their cell phone policies over time to reflect changes in technology and student communication.
Quinn argues that cell phones have traditionally been banned from classrooms due to their disruptive nature. However, parental demands for safety reasons and the ubiquity of cell phones in daily life are challenging this policy. While cell phones were initially connected to gang activity and disrupted learning, they are now integrated into education. Attempting to ban cell phone communication altogether while allowing other technology is unrealistic, so schools must adapt their cell phone policies over time to reflect changes in technology and student communication.
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Quinn 1
Ryan Quinn Mrs. Ritenour Modern English Should teachers allow cell phones in the classroom? For more than a decade we opposed policies allowing or encouraging students to have cell phones in school. On a day-to-day basis, they are disruptive to the educational environment. This also has been the general position of many school districts over the years. Changing policies under the guise of cell phones being a crisis tool for student safety for a very long time was, in our opinion, driven more by parental and student convenience issues than safety. Some schools banned pagers and cell phones starting a decade ago because of their connection to drug and gang activity, as well as due to the disruption to classes. The focus on their disruption of the educational process has come into conflict, though, with the reality of cell phones becoming a common convenience item and part of everyones daily life. However, parents have increasingly lobbied boards to change policies primarily based on the argument that phones will make students and schools safer in light of national tragedies, and we believe there needs to be a clear understanding of how cell phone use during a tragedy can detract from school safety and create a less safe environment. Times evolve, however, and technology certainly evolves. Cell phones, I-pads, digital gaming, and other technology is being integrated into the day-today learning experience of many students in schools across the nation. The methods in which they communicate and the tools to do so are readily available in so many forms.
Quinn 2 Having technology in schools as instructional tools, and believing one can simultaneously eliminate the ability of students to communicate electronically with each other and the outside community, appears to be increasingly unrealistic thinking. So our thoughts on cell phones in schools must adapt over time.
