Cell Phones Annotated Bibliography
Schaffhauser, dian. “Research: College Students More Distracted Than Ever.” Campus
Technology, 20 Jan. 2016, https://campustechnology.com/articles/2016/01/20/research-college-students-more-distracted-than-ever.aspx?m=2, Accessed 22 Jan. 2018.
Campus Technology is an online publication that is credible, its primary audience being education professionals, and it provides links to its original sources of information. Additionally, the author, Schaffhauser, is credible; she has many years’ experience as a published writer. The article shows that students are distracted by using cell phones during class. Students said that they missed instruction, took poor notes, and we’re not paying attention. The students in the research said they used the cells phones primarily to fight boredom and used the cell phones for social networking, playing games, checking time, etc. Most acknowledged that this was detrimental to their learning but did not feel that cell phones should be banned from the classroom. Schaffauser concludes that students should be more disciplined and not so focused on their cell phones.
Weimer, Maryellen. “The Age of Distraction: Getting Students to Put Away Their Phones and
Focus on Learning.” Faculty Focus, 8 Jan. 2014,
https://www.facultyfocus.com/articles/teaching-professor-blog/the-age-of-distraction-gett
ing-students-to-put-away-their-phones-and-focus-on-learning/, Accessed 23 Jan. 2018.
Faculty Focus is an online publication that is not credible. The post was originally from a teacher’s blog. The author, Weimer was not credible either to me. I did not see a good amount of facts to back up his statements and it seemed like it was mostly his opinion on the matter. The article talks about how students are inseparable from their phones. Also, how the student should they decide to use their phone should know that they will being losing points and key information in the future.
Freed, Richard. “Why Phones Don’t Belong In School.” Huffington Post, 12 April 2016,
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/richard-freed/why-phones-dont-belong-in-school_b_9666730.html, Accessed 23 Jan. 2018.
The website seemed to be credible. It had a lot of faculty and staff along with the website so there are a lot of names that go along with this source. The author Freed is a credible source. The reason I believe so is because he is a psychologist who has been in the field for a while and he is the author of a few books. This article had a good amount of sources and was laid out fairly well. Freed showed some of the side of how people feel all technology will help students learn more or better. However, later on he shows how he thinks that cell phones are an exception. Freed incorporates some major points in why this is true. These points include: cell phones being a distraction, cell phones keep students eluded from things such as safety, and how they have made the school systems lack some leadership from the student body.
National Communication Association. “Texting and Tweeting in the Classroom: How Do They
Impact Student Learning?” Science Daily, 6 April 2015, https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/06/150604141531.htm, Accessed 23 Jan. 2018.
This website, Science Daily is a very credible source. It has been going since 1995 and one of the top science sites on the internet. The author NCA, is another credible source. It is a whole association that does research on the effects on communication items. This articles main point is how cell phones are ubiquitous. It also goes into detail about how students who text or tweet do not recall notes as well and have lower quality notes. They say that the impact of cell phones in the classroom on students learning is completely negative.