James M. Lang, “The Distracted Classroom,” The Chronicle of Higher Education, March 13, 2017 and Rob Sterner, “4 Things You’ll Miss by Banning Cellphones in Your Classroom,” @ CTQ – Teachingquality.org
“By having a classroom policy that permits students to have and use their cell phones in a responsible manner with consequences for breaking my rules, I’m teaching more than just English. I’m teaching responsibility.”
The first quote I used talks ba out how to use phones in the classroom, and in this article the authors lay out that having a classroom that allows students to have and use their cell phones and having a classroom that does not allow cell phones and will even dish out punishments if that rule is broken. In the quote specifically, the author talks about how you can have a happy medium for the students and the teachers. The author states that by allowing the students to use their phones in class while learning can let the students know that there are clear rules and if broken there will be consequences, but this author says that they are teaching the students responsibility as well as English.
“So I use this opportunity to teach my students that those little jibes and taunts online—especially if they escalate to harassment—will come back to haunt them.”
I think that this next quote is great because this is something that I feel needs to be taught at about every level in schooling and how what you do and say online can affect the rest of your life if you do or say the wrong thing to someone. I think that most kids do not really understand that we do have free speech but that does not mean that we cannot still be held accountable for what they have said online. I think that especially in the time that we are in now the students that we teach need to understand how wrong things can go if you do or say the wrong thing online. I think that if more people were taught this then many people would have fewer problems.
“On the other hand, she sometimes seemed distracted in class, as if she were secretly on her phone or using social media on a laptop. But no laptop or phone was ever in sight.”
I think that this quote highlights the cons of having phones in the classroom and in this case the student seems to be wanting to get on her phone even when she does not have it. The author is telling us that the students she works with regardless of how well the student is can be affected by how much a phone or just technology can affect a student. I think that this article kind of contests the other article and in that way I think that both of the articles have good points and they execute telling the audience well.
