I want to know if you think cell phones should be allowed in class rooms @ college.  And what your reasons are for your answer.  Im doing this to help with a speech I am doing and also a report I have to write.  Please keep in mind not all college students are traditional....There are lots of different aged adults attending college now.
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its incredibly rude to the teacher and to the other students.  Especially considering that college students aren't tradition - there are adults returning to school because they need to do well and get a new job - they have to focus.  think about all the different ringers they have now.  its not even just a phone ringing anymore - its a song playing.  I am in university and it's terrible when someone's phone rings because the teacher has to compete with that noise/try to focus on what they were trying to say before they heard eminem start plaing.  The teachers are being payed to teach, and the students are paying to hear them teach. lets leave the cells phone off/on vibrate and focus on the class.  I realise that sometimes there are emegergencies - and you need to know right away, thats why a lot of people have cell phones.  I personally Do have one, and it came in really handy in class one day when i got a call about my dad being in the hospital.  But i had it on vibrate, the people next to me knew that my phone rang and that i got up and left the classroom, but they were able to continue listening to the lecture with only the disruption of me walking past them.
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Okay, I just sent you something for why students should bring mobile phones to school.  Now you want one as to why they should not?\n  Just use the same one but change it around adding this:\nThere is much talk about the use of mobile phones causing the user cancer, students can use the phone to cheat on exams, students can use the phone to take pictures of things they aren't suppose to, students can use the phone for playing games, rather than doing their assignments, they can use the phone rather than have a good lunch, .......
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I like to use Instant messaging instead of the phone. Because it is cheaper and more fun. But sometimes it is also good the hear a person's voice from time to time.
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A very good, complicated and interesting question.  Katy brought up a good point.  You could write entire book on how cell phones has changed daily life around the world.  Just think of how many business decisions are now done in real time rather than getting to a land line (telephone.)  Or how about a reporter in the field giving a story before he or she has set up the equipment to broadcast the story?  Or how about the reporting of the Iraq war where no broadcasting equipment was even available?  With cell phones, many of which now have cameras built into them, people are taking pictures of crimes as they occur.   This is also true for reporting crimes in areas that didn’t normally have phone access.\n\nSince you didn’t speak of which wireless technology you were referring to I can only assume you are talking about all wireless technology so I will discuss some others here.\n\nIn the last few years wireless networking for home computing has really taken off.  It has become much more affordable and easier to configure for the average person.  Now here is where it gets interesting.   Many new laptops have the ability for you to use a wireless networking adapter in them or with them.  Some cities, including mine in Anaheim California, are going to make the whole city wireless!   They are going to install wireless Internet transmitters all over Anaheim so everyone has a wireless connection to the Internet.  Even people visiting from out of town can use the wireless system but they have to pay a small access fee.   Can you imagine driving across the county someday and being able to access the Internet right from your car?\n\n\nLet us not forget that the first wireless technology started with the radio.  Man discovered radio in the late 1800’s.  Radio technology grew in bits and pieces but by the turn of the century wireless communications had been established.  All wireless routers and wireless Internet communication uses radio waves to send the data.\n\n\nLet us not forget RADAR.  RADAR is an acronym for Radio Detection and Ranging\nand helped us win the world war II.  One of the first uses of Microwave technology was used in RADAR in the world war II also.  Most households now use Microwaves to cook food with so radio waves also help us heat things\n\n\nWhat about television transmission?  Isn’t that also wireless?  Although many people now use cable (because they have paid for premium channels) television is a wireless technology.\n\nAnd others:\n\nRadio transponders to find lost aircraft (also a transponder)\nLo Jack stolen automobile retrieval device (also a transponder)\nNavigation\n\nRadio Frequency Identification (RFID) (also a transponder)\nRadio Frequency Identification is a way to remotely receive data from RFID tags or transponders.  They are used on toll roads and even at Mc Donald’s to buy lunch with a swipe of a small device.  They are used soo much that this needs to be researched all by itself.\n\nWhat all wireless technologies have in common is that they are all based on Radio waves.  All of things that I have mentioned are based on Radio technology \n\n\nP.S.  I usually don’t cut and paste and if I do I will say that, that is what I am doing and explain where that information came from.  I like to read information from multiple information sources then put that information together in my own words while keeping the article technically and factually correct.  And as always, I will point to web sites or other information to prove that my information is factual.
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I'm an instructor at a community college. I wish I had more students like you. Here are some of the conclusions I have come to. First, many of the students are there for reasons other than learning. Many of my younger students are there because their parents have issued ultimatums making them choose to work or go to school. For some reason they think school is easier and choose that option. Second, too many students come out of high school under prepared for college. They don't know how to organize their time, study effectively, or take notes. Third, our society has moved away from the idea of personal responsibility. Everyone is so worried about blaming others for their faults or believing that everyone else is responsible for their learning. They don't understand that the only person responsible for them is them. I am a facilitator of learning but I do not have the power to just give them knowledge. From talking to my friends at other colleges (4 year state and private) they are seeing the same trends albeit not on the same scale.
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As much as teachers and parents think these things are a distraction in school, the ban makes it worse. Our school doesn't let us have anything electronic during the course of the school day. I think this is completely wrong. Here's some things that I think are going to happen in the future.\n\n-Cell phones can be used in school (hallways and stuff), but when in class are turned off and on the desk.\n-iPods, cell phones and other electronic stuff can be used in the cafeteria during study and lunch periods.\n\nI think that mostly the parents and teachers are thinking that the cell phones and other electronic devices can help you cheat in school, which they can. It is going to take a while before schools will become more liberal with the electronic usage in school.
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At the level of higher education (this section that you posted in), I don't think colleges and universities should be in the practice of "encouraging" student growth beyond the awarding of grades for the work performed. By the time students get to college, they should be prepared to take responsibility for their own learning. Things like pats on the back, gold stars, "recognition" banquets with motivational speakers, etc, are for K-12 students and football players.
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And I assume that you know that after college you will never ever again use that worthless knowledge.  What scientist is going to be doing long hand algebra when they have a computer?  Ask your teacher who uses it on a daily basis and what percentage of the population that is.  Would you even want to as a job choice?  It's really a shame that schools require such nonsense.
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College is the sh*t. When else can you nap at 3 in the afternoon on a Tuesday and drink Wednesday nights because you don't have to get up for class Thursday 'til 1. And shirk all responsibility. Anyone who didn't like college wasn't doing it right.
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As far as I can think, there is no pro for cell phone during school.  Having them and turning them on are two different categories.\n\nI have no problem with carrying them, but most kids can't follow rules, due to the mind set that rules don't apply to them because they were made without their consent??!!\n\nCons:The usual, talking/texting during class, passing information or texting qnswers during test/quizzes. \n\nIf the kids would just be trustworthy, and not try to get around rules or try  to outsmart others, they would be surprised how much less rules there would have to be.  But as long as there are rule busters, there will be rule makers.
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I don't know what some people's problem is!  At the last college I went to, there was this guy (40-something years old) that was ALWAYS on his phone in the hallway or the courtyard or the cafeteria.  And he would always be talking incredibly loudly, so you were pretty much forced to listen to his conversation, and a lot of them were inappropriate.  I finally walked up to him and told him off after he was outside one day talking (more like shouting, actually) about some co-worker of his who had a pelvic exam and all her gynecological problems... and used her first and last name and phone number. I told him that I didn't know who that lady was, but I was pretty sure she didn't want me and the rest of the world knowing about all her personal business.  And the guy just kind of shrugged and went on his way, and told whoever he was talking to about how some "little girl"(me) was trying to teach him manners!\nAnd BlueTooth/handsfree users can be so obnoxious too!  Especially the ones who have super tiny headsets and look toward you while saying something like "Hi! How are you?" and then get annoyed when you respond!  \nI totally understand that people like having cell phones, I use mine pretty frequently, but I wish they would keep in mind that they are still in public, and they need to be polite to the people around them.
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People these days tend to rely too much on their cell phone and they let it interfere in daily life wayyyy too much.  For instance, I am a nurse, and when I go into a patient's room to discuss something with them or give them discharge instructions - I can't even guess how often the stupid cell phone goes off and suddenly it's the most important thing in the world.  It also tends to mess up social situations (like going off in a restaurant - it's really rude to pick up right there at the table).  It can also be a huge distraction when you're driving - how you ever gone down the road and looked at other drivers as you pass by?  It's amazing how many have a cell phone glued to their ear.
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Cell phones and pagers, part of the technological revolution that was supposed to liberate everyone, is tethering people to their jobs to an unprecedented degree, to the point where family life is suffering.\nThe research, by University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee sociologist Noelle Chesley, appears in the December issue of the Journal of Marriage and Family.\n\n\n"The use of cell phones and pagers was linked to increased distress and a decrease in family satisfaction over time," said Chesley, an assistant professor of sociology. "There is clearly a link between using the technology and experiencing increased access."\n\n\nFor the study, Chesley interviewed working couples over two time periods -- from 1998 to 1999 and again from 2000 to 2001. She found that between the interview periods, the use of cell phones and pagers decreased family satisfaction and increased distress and negative work-to-family and family-to-work spillover.\n\n\n"These technologies are linked to negative experiences and feelings from the workplace spilling over into the home," Chesley said. "We are becoming more accessible, which is letting in more of the bad than the good."\n\n\n"Women get kind of a double whammy," she added. "For women, in addition to having a lot of this stuff from work spill over into home life, they get the opposite. There is also a lot of negative stuff from home spilling over into the workplace."\n\n\nChesley thinks that better management of cell phone use is needed to reduce the stress effect she uncovered. Perhaps employers and employees should set limits on reaching each other to allow time for more positive family interaction, she suggested.\n\n\n"The question is, are these technologies helping us or hurting us in our daily life," Chesley asked. "The results of this study indicate that technology may not be so great."\n\n\nOne expert thinks the findings support the idea that cell phones are changing culture -- and not necessarily for the better.\n\n\n"These findings seem to support my intuitions about how cell phones affect our daily lives -- blurring boundaries between work and family life because of increased accessibility," said Tate Kubose, a cognitive scientist at the University of Illinois Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology.\n\n\n"They also support the notion that we should really appreciate our women more, as they seem to shoulder a lot of the burden, even in marriages where both spouses work," he added.
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Mediocre. I feel that online schools take away  from the experience of being in a live college environment. Although the at home convenience may be helpful and beneficial to others, i think that everyone should participate from a college campus. However i believe the education offered is the same. Also i do believe that you learning may be easier when in the classroom setting.
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Unfortunately, young people spend that much time “texting” (horrible word!) that this is becoming the only language they can understand or communicate in, even in forums such as this or their school work, essays, etc.  I can understand the shortening of words or phrases for mobile ‘phone use (for speed / cost purposes), but for general written use it is just lazy! Don’t these people also realise that this type of language when written looks extremely childish? Do they also not realise that writing words the way they do when "texting" will not exactly endear them to any potential employers?
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I don't understand you.  I am surprised you are either teaching or a student in college from the way you write.  Embarassment from the student or the lecturer?  Do you mean who is more embarassed ?\n\nIf so, I would think the student SHOULD be more embarassed.  Why attend if you are not going to pay attention?
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Interesting.  The Lord has put many in my life. Right now, I have a group of late teens, early twenties... I am preparing them for college,  by training them in Christian apologetics. This will help them defend their faith against the worldliness of college. My ex-wife... without her I may not have gotten to know the Lord and not be doing what I am doing now.  I had a wonderful class a few years ago and was able to teach science from a Christian perspective. One of the students, Sarah died last week. I believe she is in Heaven. This is rough when you see this happen to a 16 year old. But I hope I was able to make some difference in her and her families life.