Matthew Orrell
23 Jan. 2018
ENG. 112-20
Annotated Bibliography
Cell Phone Use
Freed, Richard. “Why Phones Don't Belong in School.” TheHuffingtonPost.com, 12 Apr. 2016, www.huffingtonpost.com/richard-freed/why-phones-dont-belong-in-school_b_9666730.html. 23.Jan.2018
Huffington post is a news/entertainment source. Richard Freed is a writer for the Huffington Post and regularly writes articles on phone usage. Freed begins by explaining how phone usage in class is widespread and needs to be tamed. He then gives study results and reasons why students use phones during class. Freed talks about how parents make some of these issues worse by requiring their kids to be on the watch for texts and call and respond to them immediately. They end by showing a study on how a school that removed cellphone use from class had very high increases in test scores.
National Communication Association. "Texting and tweeting in the classroom: How do they impact student learning?." ScienceDaily, 4 June 2015. <www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/06/150604141531.htm>. Accessed 22.Jan.2018
Science daily is a website that has articles on science journals. There was no writer listed. The article is about how well students retain information after doing different types of activities on their phones. Some teachers have now started using phones in class, but this still raises the question whether phones take away from the amount of material retained. The article concludes that using phones for non-class activities will result in bad scores. Where when phones are used interactively with the class items are more retained and students had higher test scores than the other group.
Schaffhauser, Dian. “Research: College Students More Distracted Than Ever.” Campus Technology, 20 Jan. 2016, campustechnology.com/articles/2016/01/20/research-college-students-more-distracted-than-ever.aspx?m=2. Accessed 22. Jan.2018
Campus Technology is a website reporting on technology used at colleges. Dian Schaffhauser has a blog about technology and education and works for multiple news sources. The article explains how college students are more distracted than ever because of technology. On average students use their phone 11.43 times during class. Some of these activities include email, texting, checking the time, and even playing games on their phones. The main excuses for using their phones are staying connected and fighting boredom. Then the article talks about how to avoid these problems.
Pawlowski, A. “Kids Who Are Addicted to Smartphones May Have an Imbalance in the Brain.” Today, 30 Nov. 2017, 9:59am, www.today.com/health/teen-smartphone-addicts-have-chemical-imbalance-brains-t119423. Accessed 16.Jan.2018
The source is Today.com, Today usually shows weather and tabloid like news. It does have occasionally a medical segment on the show. A. Pawlowski is a writer for CNN and Today shows websites. The article is the study of 38 teens each who were identified by an unknown source as smartphone addicts. They also gathered 19 healthy aged kids who were not identified as addicts to use as controls. The article gave a list of ways to identify the symptoms of smartphone addiction and gave a list of solutions to combat them. The solution to the issue that was reinforced the most was setting the example and putting your phone down.
Weimer, Maryellen. “The Age of Distraction: Getting Students to Put Away Their Phones and Focus on Learning.” Faculty Focus | Higher Ed Teaching & Learning, 8 Jan. 2014, www.facultyfocus.com/articles/teaching-professor-blog/the-age-of-distraction-getting-students-to-put-away-their-phones-and-focus-on-learning/. accessed 23.Jan.2018
Faculty Focus is a website with free publications on strategies of teaching. Maryellen Weimer, PhD writes mainly about how to teach and handle classroom behavior. The issue that all teachers and students are having is being distracted by their phones. The article proposes instead of call them out on it or taking the phone. Have at the beginning of the year a few articles about the benefits of not using your phone in class.