Sentences with phrase «phone use in schools»

Just a few years ago, it looked like regulating cellular phone use in schools was getting a lot easier.

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«It makes sense to spin off the mobile - phone business using a public offering that would leave SoftBank in control and provide SoftBank with more cash to pursue its strategy of investing in companies with potentially high growth prospects,» Erik Gordon, a professor at the University of Michigan's Ross School of Business.

This information includes your name, email address, school, where you live, pictures, phone number, your likes and dislikes, where you go, who your friends are, how often you use Instagram, and any other personal information we find such as your birthday or who you are chatting with, including in private messages (DMs).»

Look for added extras on school backpacks that your child will actually use, such as pockets, key chains, lunch kits, water bottle holders, cell phone holders, etc. (But keep in mind there is such thing as too many pockets when a kid is looking for misplaced lunch money.)

The smallest thing, like not using the phone or saying no to a football game because she was in trouble at school or skipped school that day, will lead to her either leaving after school and doing just what I said no to.

During the time that my daughter has been in middle school, our school has moved away from a strict cell phone policy that prohibited phone use during school hours to a more lenient one.

While many generations have survived without having cellphones at school and some frown upon their use, a great many parents and kids rely on their phones to stay in touch throughout the school day.

Some schools don't allow phones at all, some use them as mini-computers to support research in the classrooms, others allow them only during lunch breaks and after classes.

We understand smart phones provide an invaluable reference with the Internet in our palms, but ask any high school student and even they will tell you it is not acceptable to cheat by using the phone for any reason during a test or in this case a debate.

Authorities of Karaga Senior High School in the Northern Region have seized and burnt over 100 mobile phones belonging to students, who flouted stipulated rules not to use phones whilst in sSchool in the Northern Region have seized and burnt over 100 mobile phones belonging to students, who flouted stipulated rules not to use phones whilst in schoolschool.

The burning of the phones is to reinforce strict compliance with the ban on the use of mobile phones in all second - cycle schools.

Theo Allen, a math student at NYU's Tandon School of Engineering who attended Tuesday's event, said he'll be participating in the competition, and mentioned three technologies he'll look at: a gun that can be locked using a smart phone app; a gun activated by a fingerprint reader; and a gun that can only be used if triggered by a digital chip embedded in a nearby device, like a ring.

The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Ghana Telecommunications Chamber, Ken Ashigbey, has called on the Ghana Education Service (GES), to reconsider its stance against the use of mobile phones in Senior High Schools.

Buttke is interested in using public interest in personal health as a way to increase support for public green space, and enhancing public understanding of how human actions can drive infectious disease spread through a variety of avenues including school programs, websites, and smart phone apps.

A recent study from the Tel Aviv University School of Engineering used the signal strength from cell phone base stations to monitor the intensity of rainfall in those exact locations.

I've used this service for many different reasons and have had success with it in most cases: searching for my aunt's phone number, looking for an old high school friend, and so on.

There's every reason to remake the film for the current generation of teens and twenty - somethings, Craig Brewer's version scripted by him and Dean Pitchford updated to the current year, but one in which the high - school kids barely use cell phones and only a few computers are in sight at the school library.

Even the few minutes he spends with his three children are set up as appointments, ever in flux: arriving at the home of his second ex, Kelly (Robin Wright Penn), to take his son to school, he hears, «She says it's okay for you to go in the house instead of using the cell phone.»

The screenplay by Brin Hill and director Daniel Barnz lays the blame almost solely at the feet at the local teachers union, which, in this scenario, protects a teacher who sits in her classroom and uses her cell phone throughout class and ensures that no teacher will make the effort help Jamie's (Maggie Gyllenhaal) daughter Malia (Emily Alyn Lind), who has dyslexia, because school ends at 3 p.m. and so does the teacher's workday.

As the program expands, schools will use the phones to communicate with students in a messaging campaign designed to rebrand achievement.

Infrastructure examines how to use emerging infrastructure like cell phones and laptops in the classroom and schools.

Targett says that banning mobile phones «sends out a contradictory message to pupils» and that schools need to teach students to «use technology responsibly in their everyday lives».

By using existing databases in a more intelligent way and tapping into the rising number of tablets and smart phones, schools and colleges can cut down on carbon consumption by taking advantage of technology.

(Case in point: one Racine high school student last year made a video of a fight and posted it to YouTube using his cell phone — no school Internet access needed.)

If, at any point, there is an emergency or change in circumstances, the students can use the button to alert the relevant staff at the associated school by email, text or phone call.

Teachers can help their students develop a positive mobile mental health in the first weeks of school by discussing their ideas on cell phone use, setting up a stoplight management system, and establishing a class contract.

Cell phone use is typically forbidden in public school classrooms.

If you take the time in the first week of school to establish a management system and a social contract and to open up dialogue about student cell phone use, expectations are clear.

Schools, States Review Cell Phone Bans More than a decade after many school systems and states prohibited students from carrying and using pagers and cellular phones in school, state lawmakers and administrators are rethinking their positions.

They are more likely to be interested in learning if they can use their phones, computers and iPads in school.

Agree that school - issued laptops (or cell phones or other smaller devices) should not be used in the student's bedroom.

«Schools will make their own minds up about the extent to which phones and other devices should be used in sSchools will make their own minds up about the extent to which phones and other devices should be used in schoolsschools.

In a service project for Northwest Classen High School's PTA, Norfar's students used algebra to analyze local cell phone plans to determine the best value.

Think about home access to technology, alternative access during school time, use of smart phones, laptop loans and how to involve parents in homework culture;

Earlier this year, The Guardian reported on the dangers of digital over-exposure, reporting that 50 % to 80 % of school children had experienced cyberbullying in some form, and one in five children reported missing out on sleep or food to keep using their phone or other device.

Jarrod Robinson explains why schools should stop confiscating these amazing pieces of technology, and how phones can be used to engage students in learning.

These include buying school materials (clothes, supplies, and even homework) on eBay and the Internet; exchanging music on P2P sites; building games with modding (modifying) tools; setting up meetings and dates online; posting personal information and creations for others to check out; meeting people through cell phones; building libraries of music and movies; working together in self - formed teams in multiplayer online role - playing games; creating and using online reputation systems; peer rating of comments; online gaming; screen saver analysis; photoblogging; programming; exploring; and even transgressing and testing social norms.

Click on the link to read a follow - up article on this topic from Roger Broadie and Mal Lee, on creating a school culture that supports the inclusion and use of mobile phones in classrooms.

«In schools, we're saying no to cell phones when instead we should be telling students that this thing they use to text their friends could actually become something that's helpful in the twenty - first - century job force,» says KolIn schools, we're saying no to cell phones when instead we should be telling students that this thing they use to text their friends could actually become something that's helpful in the twenty - first - century job force,» says Kolin the twenty - first - century job force,» says Kolb.

This endearing little show out of North Carolina makes a pitch for using cell phones in the classroom, particularly for STEM education, and gives a few helpful tips from a school administrator.

When schools move toward mobile learning in the classroom, they can take advantage of electronic devices such as tablets and cell phones that offer portability and ease of use.

From a small and heavily skewed sample of schools, the authors generalise to suggest that the education of the lower quartile of secondary students would be enhanced, and educational inequality reduced if the use of mobile phones was banned in schools.

Nevertheless, increased use of technology, particularly smart phones, gives parents more options to stay connected to schools, teachers and their children, which I believe is a net positive in the parent - child relationship.

Researchers in the schools of management at the University of Texas at Austin and the University of California, San Diego as well as the Department of Social and Decision Sciences at Carnegie Mellon ran two experiments to attempt to measure how well people finish tasks when their smartphones are nearby — even if the phones aren't in use.

Most teachers encourage online research, including the use of digital technologies such as cell phones to find information quickly, yet point to barriers in the school environment impeding quality online research

Specifically, majorities say they and / or their students use cell phones (72 %), digital cameras (66 %), and digital video recorders (55 %) either in the classroom or to complete school assignments.

Even though cell phones aren't allowed in our school, students in other schools have used their phones» text - message capabilities to transmit answers during tests.

When I was in school, cell phone use in the classroom was a big no - no.

The world outside the school wall, where 92 % of teens access the Internet daily, most often from a smartphone (Lenhart, 2015), is not reflective of the reality in most schools, where students are not allowed to use their phones in class (Lenhart, Ling, Campbell, & Purcell, 2010).

He mentions that schools have found technology that provides «opportunities for more efficient home communication» and «better systems of tracking, collating and analysing behaviour incidents», but then segues into a discussion of in - class technology and pupil mobile phone use, never to return to the above.