What is your opinion?

I am from India.I am still using the mobile phones in my class.In my college It is banned.But I can still use it.I support you.There is no point of banning it.

hello there jevendiran.... in our school,we do not encourage the student to bring cellphones. why because 1. there some people who can't control themselves, they take things which are theirs. 2. students sometimes use it when the teacher is discussing or they have activity. 3.sometimes they use it to copy during the test.
but there are still some who ask permission to the school so that they can bring their cellphone but with a valid reason like 1. an important call from the parents who are outside the country. 2. in case of emergency they can call their parents or relatives. so i think they should not banned it but rather put limitation or explain to the parents the rules that should be follow in bringing a cellphone...
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yes.i agree with this.mobiles must be allowed.at least mobiles without camera can be allowed in the campus.as u say those who use them in positive way will definitely get affected.the are uncountable uses with mobiles.for the students who travels a long distances from college to home must need a phone.if there is a heavy traffic so as to reach home very late,we can inform our parents.These kind of matters gains importance.

Hi Jevendiran, Yes it is a complicated issue- some students genuinely need to have a mobile because they are staying away from home and living in hostels and need to keep in touch with their parents, and even otherwise now it has become a neccessity for everyone so, why target the students?. But if a student is irresponsible and starts using it within the class room, then understandably he is breaking the rules. But i dont see why the students are not allowed to use it within the campus? that's going a bit too far...

Me for one oppose the legal use of mobile phones in the classroom. I do not say that I do not use them in class, but when the class gets boring I use it to text my friends. The classroom is a place where we learn things which will help us lead a life and we should respect it. It should be used for personal things but not to disturb the class. One should put themselves in the teacher's shoes before they use the phone to discturb the whole class and try to feel how it would disrupt the flow.

You mentioned that students in classes use the voice recorder to record classes. What' the use?? They can each have a webcam and sit at their homes and listen to the class.. Why not do that? The main reason for having classes is that it is supposed to increase concentration and the listening skills of the student. Such a practice is not useful in the long run where they are supposed to take in a lot of information at a single time.

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Hi,there.I think college student should be allowed to use mobiles.Because it's information time now,We can't loose communication of the world.So does the college student.Mobile can keep us with others all the time.But on the contrary,Mobiles should fobbid in classroom when students are having classes.Mobiles may distract theirs attetions.

Hi,Jevendiran!
I'm really confused about why you shouldn't use your cellphones in college.That only happens when I was in high school.Because at that time,We have a huge study tasks,the mobiles may distract us from the attention in learning.
But as for college student,Mobiles can be very useful to contact with parents and old friends.In the meantime,every coin has two sides,In my college,it is very uausl to see students playing cellphones in class.But that cann't be the reason to banned the Mobiles,we should control ourself to use mobiles in a positive way.

Jevendiran,

In the first place, do you really believe that there are students who really use the cellphones in a positive way?

I am sorry but I really beg to differ here. One of the very basic reason for me to oppose here will be that these cellphones are being bought and maintained by their parents' hard earned money. If you care to observe most of the time these models are very expensive and state of the art models. If you think all the enhanced mobile applications are anything for the working adults then look further, and you will see that it is a fact that the vast user numbers are the students. I am sure you would have read the exorbitant cellphone bills being incurred by ignorant students in the papers. So, in a way, I feel that it is unfair, for the parents to bear the responsibility and financial burdens of a cellphone. Bringing them up and academic pursuits already a such big burden so I feel that it will be unfair to add more burdens here.

To be fair, I feel that the academic authorities are being fair with this ban and rightly so. It is important that learning to adapt and overcome is one of the essentials for the youths of today and what better way than to learn how not to be too reliant to these technologies. A student's life is never too complicated or filled with so much uncertainties that they could loose their time with their parents and siblings. So, sometimes I am really wondering if they really need these mobiles during their time at school.

Last but not least, these mobiles most of time are culpable for being vices for the restless students. Distracting them from their main aim and goal, and at the end of the day, are their parents guilty for being supportive by letting them own these vices?

How did the world ever survive without mobile phones? I just cannot imagine. For students to say 'I can't manage without my phone.' Why not for goodness sake? Will your arms drop off, if you don't have your mobile? Will life suddenly stop without your mobile?
I am a teacher and if a phone went off in my class, I consider it a disruption. Phones should be banned from all classes no question. There is absolutely no need to have a mobile phone in any class.

i think if student use mobile technology for good purpose in college then its acceptable, some student that use mobile for communicate in between exam as shown in one hindi film then its must banned.