Students using mobile phones in class: The disadvantages outweigh the benefits

In Circular 32/2020/TT-BGDDT, the Ministry of Education and Training has stipulated that: secondary and high school students are allowed to use phones during class hours to serve their studies when permitted by teachers. Phones are a modern means of communication with many utilities, helping students easily access the endless database of human knowledge, thereby exploiting it to serve their studies, research and life, thereby improving their capacity and qualifications. Many outstanding and talented people have achieved this through constantly consulting, studying and enriching their knowledge online.

However, we must not underestimate the negative effects. The increasingly smart phones can create inequality among students, creating conditions for cheating in exams if used freely. The worrying problem is that instead of focusing on the lesson, many students, "more interested in playing than studying", will be distracted by the virtual world on social networks.

Children are easily exposed to and tempted by many trivial things, sensational "junk" information, games, entertaining movies, and even depraved and toxic products.

“First is the devil, second is the spirit, third is the student”. At any time, a smartphone can be turned into a recording device, capturing the indiscretions, “revealing” moments of teachers, friends… or become a device to secretly film the opposite sex; serving the problem of school violence. The final destination of these scary products is to post them on social networks, causing harm to the victims, disrupting security and order.

Allowing students to bring valuable assets such as mobile phones into the classroom, once damage or loss occurs, will cause many other complicated problems, while communication with students' families has been established through channels (telephone) of homeroom teachers, registration offices, supervisors, school boards, etc.

Is it because they cannot control it that they ban students from using phones in class? In fact, in the current conditions of schools with a shortage of classrooms and a large number of students, it is difficult for teachers to complete their lessons and manage and monitor the use of phones by each student. And it is even more worrying because in addition to class time, students also have recess, nap time (daytime students)... In developed countries, the British Ministry of Education has issued a ban. The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has called on countries not to allow students to use mobile phones in schools.

UNESCO studies in many countries show that allowing students to use phones in class will disrupt learning hours, reduce the quality of learning and create a situation where children are bullied online.

Source: https://danviet.vn/hoc-sinh-su-dung-dien-thoai-di-dong-khi-den-lop-loi-bat-cap-hai-20240921093239185.htm