1. Should Cell Phones Be Banned In
School?
Hon Fai Kan
PD 4

2. Pros of Cell Phone
• Nowadays the education method is changing
• New generation hates reading textbook
• No needs to take notes : take photos
• Increases the interest of learning
• Cell Phone is convenient: learn everywhere
• Access to outside information quickly
• School act more like real society

3. Cons of Cell Phone
• Distracting to class, hard to concentrate
• Students use it for texting or entertaining
• Some students use cell phone to cheat
• Taking funny photos of other people
• A tool of bullying
• Texting can harm their grammar skills
• Disrespect the teachers

4. My thoughts in Cell Phone
• Textbook accepted by many people
• It would undermined the learning of poor
• Few students use it for learning
• Taking notes also a method of learning
• Cheating is a serious problem
• Disadvantage more than advantage
• Cell Phone should be banned in school

6. Interview
• I asked my Math teacher Mr Chiu
• 1) Do you accept your students using cell
phone during your class?
• Mr Chiu: No, because it’s distraction, student
should concentrate in class.
• 2) Do you think that students call use cell
phone to help learning in class?
• Mr Chiu: Yes, if there is a program that can
block games, internet and texting.

7. Interview
• 3) How would you prevent students from
playing games in cell phone?
• Mr Chiu:I will take away their phones.
• Summary: Mr Chiu did not want the students
to play cell phones in his class. If there is a
program that can ensure students learning in
phone, then cell phone can be use for learning.
If not, it should be banned.

8. Articles
• Phones a factor in school fighting - March 2, story
• I am writing in reference to the report in the Sunday Times
about Freedom High School fights and cell phone text
messaging.
• My question is this: Why do students need to have
their cellphones in class with them?
• Shouldn't there be a policy that bans cell phone usage during
school hours? Any emergency that needs handling can be
handled through teachers and other on-site administrative
and support personnel.
• Any communication students need to have during the school
day other than emergencies should be the old-fashioned way
of waiting until you see the person you want to converse with
and speaking with them in person.

9. Articles
• Cell phones have negative effects in school
• Emergency events can be solved by teacher
• The cell phones should be in lockers
• The old-fashioned way can be used
• Cell phones are not essential in school

10. Follow-Up
• http://www.debate.org/opinions/should-
cell-phones-be-banned-within-schools
a website that provide two sides information
• http://teenink.com/opinion/school_college/
article/420890/Should-Cell-Phones-be-
Banned-from-Schools
has a passage with useful information

11. Questions
• What’s your thought of using Cell Phone in
School?
• Would you use Cell Phone to help studying?
• If one day the usage of Cell Phone is totally
banned in this building, what would you do?
• What you think about this power point?

12. Reference
• mockingbirds5. "Should Cell Phones Be Banned
from Schools?" Teenink (n.d.): n. pag. Teen Ink.
Web.
• http://www.debate.org/opinions/should-cell-
phones-be-banned-within-schools
• "WHY HAVE CELL PHONES AT SCHOOL?." The St.
Petersburg Times (St. Petersburg, FL) (March 7,
2008) NORTH OF TAMPA: 2. Global Issues In
Context. Gale. Francis Lewis High NYC CSD. 17 Apr.
2013
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