Impact of Mobile Phones on Students
Mobile phone has now-a-days become a part and parcel of our life . It is a valuable tool. It facilitates communication among colleagues, friends and family members. All technologies that provide such benefits come with a set of drawbacks.
As it is seen mobile phones have a huge impact on students’ life, the question comes to our mind, is it a blessing or a curse ? Loaded with so many contents, a student can get information on any topic. Starting from about the weather, about the traffic, such information we can get from internet using mobile phone.
A mobile device gives students an edge. Besides online lectures, students can also use it for entertainment such as movies, games and social media. We now live in a world that is smaller and more connected than ever before just because of mobile phones. In many schools, laptops are not permitted in classrooms. Mobile phones can replace laptops in terms of providing access to free educational and information resources. Mobile phones can be used to capture pictures and videos helping students remembering material more easily.
In addition to being a blessing and a curse to the younger generation, many of these phones are also used for not education but for entertainment which leads to bad habits like watching blackmail, pornography,and increasing cybercrime. Mobile phones serve many important functions. Digital literacy is a critical aspect of young people’s schooling . Research shows that mobile phones can play a role in supporting such learning. It is seen that learning continues even outside the classrooms. These phones aid students to access live information and updates as they go about their academic live. Student engagement is better when technology-driven tools are partnered with aid learning and not the old school methods. Most modern techniques are innovative to keep up with the current technology era.It is one of the best positive impact of mobile phones in students’ life.
Then one of the major benefits of mobile phones is that it helps people to stay connected to each other.Students can make use of their mobile devices to inform their parents and guardians of their current location. Parents can now monitor the whereabouts of their kids and it aids the reduction of workloads of administrative staff who would’ve been called to transfer messages from parents to their wards. A smartphone gives us the ability to do voice call, video call, and messaging to communication with each other. By communicating with anyone, at anytime and anywhere, mobile phones have transformed the telecommunication industry.
Students are also entertained by these mobile devices. While they relax with good movies or music, they take a break from all their academic work. They can also play games or surf the internet on it.They use it to take a break from all their academic work. They can also play games on it.They use it to take a break from all their academic work while they relax with good movies or music. Mobile phones assist the students a lot in dealing with critical situations. It helps a person to instantly get assistance when faced with any troublesome situation. With mobile phones, we can also get the ability to trace the location of a lost person. It is helpful in dealing with large scale emergencies and natural disasters. This helps us avoiding danger and saving our life too.The most important thing is that
mobile phones also help the students academically . They help providing quick access to technology and information . There are several educational applications that we can use on the phone. These apps provide an interesting way to learn topics, make presentations, complete assignments, track exam schedules etc. Mobile also help ncreasing engagement among students. Besides academic side , there are apps that a student can use to improve their skills and talents such as dancing, singing, cooking, art and craft, learning any software etc. We can download several free of cost books on our phone and read them.
In this way, mobiles phones also serve as a cost-efficient medium to learn skills, stay organized and enhance academic performance. With mobile phones,we can access several online groups to get a guidance about future prospects, apply for jobs, find internships opportunities and prepareing for the first interview.
Though mobile phones are so important but it has its negative effects on students. Although mobile phones are very useful, they can also be a distraction. Some students make use of these handsets during class or study hours, hence they have no time to read. The internet, music, movies, Snapchat, Instagram e.t.c. aid this distraction.Some students use mobile phones so much that they start to neglect their studies. They spend a major portion of time in accessing social networking websites, chatting with friends, watching movies, listening to songs, and other useless activities that they don’t get time to study. This ultimately gets them low grades, and destroy their career.
Besides using mobile phones for longer duration is not good for health. Not just it impairs the vision but can also cause sleep disorders, hearing issues, and other serious issues.Studies have been released to talk about the connection between radiation emitted from the device and chronic health diseases like cancer and brain tumor. Sleep deprivation from phone usage is also a cause of stress, which eventually affects our health.
Another disadvantage of mobile phones is that we can access unlimited content that may not be adequate for our child. A lot of violent games and movies are present on the internet that can negatively impact the innocent minds of children.The internet is free for all, it is impossible to ensure all educational resources that are seen online are right and legit. Students are exposed to these wrong and false information.
Students use their phones to answer questions that should be answered straight from their brains.
Looking at the positive and negative impact of mobile phones on children, it is quite clear that it positively impacts adults, youth, and entire society. Though there are a few negative impacts of using these devices , it can be prevented if student use it carefully and for a limited period of time.
Kiran Das.
Subject teacher ( English )
Ramdia Girls’ H. S. School.
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