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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not that it's needed, but here's a simple example of how a cell phone was helpful for me, a grown up, while teaching in a classroom.  Perhaps I needed assistance in my classroom and my kids were reading quietly.  I could text the office and ask for someone to be sent down.  The kids wouldn't be disturbed, like if I had called on the landline, and we'd get the support we needed.  No harm.  No foul.  Cell phones aren't the horrible thing some make them out to be. [/quote]

Look, either cell phones are horrible or they are not. But they can't be horrible when students use them, and the best thing ever when teachers use them. Pick one. Which is it? [/quote]

+1, all these teachers suddenly saying how awesome phones are and how they minimize distractions when they don't want their own phones taken away, big change from a month ago when they said they were soooo distracting that students can't have them at all even between classes. WHICH IS IT? [/quote]

Students using their phones during class instead of listening, taking notes, participating in discussion, etc. is distracting: to the students around them, which causes a greater distraction for more students and the teacher and disrupts the teacher's class and/or other students' work.

Teachers using phones for class tasks (apparently timers, taking photos) is not - even if a phone isn't actually necessary to do those things. Students don't need them for calculators in class, either - there are actual calculators they can use.

If teachers were scrolling the internet, texting all their friends, watching youtube videos, or playing video games instead of giving their presentations and lectures, working with individual students, monitoring students group work, or answering students' questions, that would be distracting.

Is that clearer to you now?[/quote]

No, it's not. This isn't about wanting students to be on the internet or video games during class. It is about letting them use their phones for the same useful reasons teachers are, such as taking picture or using timers. What's so hard to understand about that? [/quote]

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