Cellphones!

Cellphones are a great and handy tool. They are very useful when it comes to communicating with other people while on the move. Also a lot of people these days have a cellphone which makes communicating with them much easier than using home phones. On the other hand, cellphones can be used for non-ethical things. In the past few years cellphones have been used to detonate bombs. They also be used to cheat on tests by texting the answer to their buddy. Overall cellphones are handy and very useful, but only if they are used in a manner that they are meant to be used.



Cellphones can be used to take pictures of their school projects and show it to their parents, because parents don't usually see these projects. It can also be used to text message their classmate that miss the class, a buddy system can be put into place.A lot of cellphones are equipped with it's own calculators and can be used for solving mathematical problems that are assigned by the teacher. Pictures of the notes can also be taken and accessed later for students who take notes slowly. Students can also listen to music using their earphones, many students find it helpful and relaxing to do so.

Cellphones can also be used for unethical purposes. One thing that happens quite often is that students send text messages of the test answers top their buddies, which is cheating and is very wrong. One big problem is teachers being recorded doing unethical stuff and put on the Internet for all to see. There are also very serious offenses including, arranging a drug deal, Setting up others to fight and the worst thing is to detonate a bomb.

I believe that cellphones are a vey useful and helpful to everyday use, but this is only possible if people use it in an ethical way. To me, an ethical use of cellphones should in a classroom should be that cellphones should only be used outside of the classroom because most of the ti e when student use their cellphones they text other people and get distracted, and on the process don't do what is supposed to be done on the classroom.


http://www.suite101.com/content/fair-cell-phone-use-in-schools-a15906
http://derekbruff.com/teachingwithcrs/?p=227
I chose these sites because they both have the pros and cons for cellphone use in the classroom and that's basically what I needed for this blog.