Personal Electronic Devices in the Classroom should be allowed

Good Luck!!! First some framework We would like to start off with definitions Personal electronic devices- a device that accomplishes its purpose electronically- Princeton University Examples could be a cellular phone, a tablet, or a computer. Classroom - any school classroom which includes public k-12 classrooms as well as college classrooms. Standard- Quality of Education With that said, we have a few main arguments. Contention 1: Cheating It's widely known that in the 21st century, many personal electronic devices encompass the ability to browse the internet, watch videos, social network, and even play games, such as the iPod, smart-phones & laptops. According to a leading San Diego News Site called wirelessandmobilenews.org and Common sense media, The San Francisco nonprofit that runs a highly regarded website that gives parents and teachers advice on media and technology for kids, 35% of all teens admit to cheating on their smart phone or cellphone using the internet, and that 100 of 140 text messages from an average teenager's phone are sent from a classroom which does not permit texting. In the Educational Testing Service, a survey of about 3,000 college-bound 16 to 18-year-olds in the found that 80% of the country's top students had cheated in school. Judge, can you imagine a classroom of students, and around 35% of have cheated on their cellphones? This percentage is already hard to believe, but according to Educational Testing Service 95% of cheaters admitted that they were not caught. Can you picture a class where 95% of these students, the majority, are using their own electronics to cheat? This is exactly why the resolution would greatly harm education, as well as increase academic dishonesty. Contention #2: Distractions Our second main argument is that if we let personal electronic devices into the classroom in the hands of students, they would make as great distractions to not only the person using them, but the people around them. According to pbs.org, teachers found that when they asked their students to bring their laptops to school for a project, or to take cellphones on a field trip, that most of their students were playing video games or talking to friends when they weren't supposed to. As of now, we are allowing certain exceptions of personal electronic devices on school premises as long as they are not misused. TIME- Those who check Facebook, tend to get lower grades. Department of Education (DOE) They point to the distractive influence that electronic devices have in the classroom. They also pose a threat to student safety as security as these devices have become the number one target for theft and robberies. Misuses of these devices by students have also been problematic. Students have used them to cheat on exams or videotape fights and other unseemly activity and later post these recordings to the web As you can see, if we allow the devices into the classroom, many won't learn anything as they are easily distracted. There were even studies that grades were lowered! Contention #3: Theft, Violence and CyberBullying Our third and final contention is that with personal electronic devices at school and in class, there would be more of an incentive for bullies and thieves to, well, steal these same electronics. "It's not too hard to believe that these kids would risk taking some new electronic, showing it off to their friends, and getting it stolen away from them by some bully," says education expert Arne Duncan. And, as would be expected with any electronic gadget, there is the increased risk of theft. Students leaving their cell phones or PDAs in lockers or backpacks may return to find those items missing. Obviously if the resolution brings about all this unnecessary and corrupt behavior, it would greatly hurt the individuals education, which was our standard. Now, Cyber Bullying is also a harm that comes with having electronic devices in school- The National Education Association reports that According to Pew Research, about one third (32 percent) of all teenagers who use the Internet say they have been targets of some form of cyberbullying that ranged from receiving threatening messages and having their private e-mails or text messages forwarded to having an embarrassing picture posted or rumors about them spread online