Why Teachers Want to Ban Cellphone Cameras From Classrooms
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Cell phones cameras should be ban in sch..
There is no need of cell phones and cameras in the classroom, By using these instruments students are not do their study care fully. School or colleges are place where student learn and study. Cell phones, Cameras etc should be ban in school ad colleges.
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students should be allowed to have cell phones at school. Now phones such as the iphone and the blackberry smartphone can be used for research snd all that other kind of good stuff. so they should definately consider letting kids have cellphones at school. on the other hand they do disrupt class and are dangerous in many ways, so it could really go either way
cell phone cameras
Most people would agree that today's teenagers are much more difficult to deal with in public settings. Go to a fast food restaurant and the teenage employee acts like they are doing you a favor as they take your order with attitude. Today's teenagers are exposed to much more violent and sexual images and are expected to "grow up" at a quicker rate without the emotional maturity to do so. Today's teenager lives in a world that fosters a very short attention span. Needless to say the task facing America's teachers are more arduous than ever while public scrutiny is at an all time high. Everyone complains that today's teachers do not do enough to teach today's youth life skills that will prepare them for the work force and allow teenagers to be lazy and undisciplined and graduate school with no work ethic, poor attitude and an inability to problem solve. The best solution is to give today's teachers more autonomy to challenge students to problem solve, to work harder, to develop proper social skills instead society is filled with stories of parents trying to fire educators for any time they show enough character to take a stand and discipline a young person or to not pass a person for not doing the required work. We are undercutting the same people we are counting on.
Allowing cell phone use in classrooms have extremely limited benefits:
1. Calling cha-cha to get an answer
Really is this the way we want to teach youngsters how to conduct thorough research? Instead of reading and problem solving ....call cha-cha....that's weak....and yes administrators in many districts are in favor of it. Another example of the lowering of standards for today's youth
The disadvantages far outweigh the advantages:
1. It's a distraction ...Will students text their friends? Yes
2. Students that have blackberry phones could surf the web without restrictions that schools usually set.
3. Images of teachers and other students will end up on the web breaking privacy laws and undoubtably posted without fair and biased coverage.
4. Drug deals and fights can be arranged at a specific time via texting which lead to safety issues in an already tough enviornment.
Bottom line....the job of a teacher is already tougher than it has ever been ...why would anyone try to make it tougher?...that's like pouring gasoline in an attempt to put out a fire!
If I were that teacher I would sue the parents for character defamation.
Cell phone cameras
Parents can go on line and look up the standard course of study to see what is being taught in the class room. Teachers are already monitored by the administration. During the test, students have also been caught text ing the answers to tests.
To judge good teachers from bad, the playing field must be equal - same amount of discipline problems, same reading levels, and same amount of special ed students. Then pre test and post test.
I don't see other professionals being monitored half as much as the teacher profession.
They can and do record students
Most of all schools have many security cameras and do video tape students each and everyday! They do use these recording to get students in trouble for misbehaving!
"Public" education turns policies into politics
Consider for a minute that such questions would never even come up if government wasn’t running almost all of the schools. Where ownership is by the "Collective," policy becomes politics. In a private school, the owners can set policy and obtain consent of all who attend – by voluntary written agreement - to either allow or ban the practice. With regard to filming crimes, it’s contextual and the courts and common law should have final say.
not all that bad...
I understand the negative implications. But there are tools out there available to teachers that train them how to utilize cell phones and technology into a learning environment. Cell phones are going to disappear just because schools don't like them. It's time we face the 21st Century head on.
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It should work both ways
My wife was a teacher in CT and has told me numerous stories of the horrible behavior of the childern in today's classrooms. Why can't the teachers video this behavior and use it against the students to get the troublemakers removed? The answer is the catch 22 of this debate. Teachers cannot record the kids due to the privacy rights of the kids. It seems that what is needed here is consistancy. If you cannot record the horrible behavior of the kids, then the kids should not be able to record behavior of the teachers.
The other violation
What about the rights of those being recorded? For those who remember ever having to fill out a waiver form before being recorded or photographed, what happened to those? Do we not have an expected right of privacy, as long as there is suspicion of wrong-doing?
If they want to nip this problem, they should just uphold the expectation that those filmed are willing. If not, the video/audio/photographed can be forced in court to be destroyed because of the violation of rights. Granted, any multimedia shown as evidence of wrong-doing (such as video clips of harrassment referenced above) would be exempt from such protection, on grounds that those who abuse others' rights lose their own.
More teacher watchdogs?
Who gets to analyze the thousands of hours of instructional time, listening for "inappropriate content?" As a teacher, my greatest joy is when my students and I are "in the groove," laughing and learning; I make my lessons entertaining, challenging, and multilevel. Everyone benefits, and if it takes a good fart joke, or me running into a wall to demonstrate molecules, then so be it. Unfortunately, the "tots" are more tech-savvy, and can cut/splice/photoshop just about anything anywhere. The "tots" parents are litigious, just waiting to get in to the vast financial hoard I have hustled in this line of work, catching me talk about a "booby" and not realizing its a breed of bird. Yes, in Middle School we still laugh when we say "Uranus," and if you use that to determine the quality of an education, you do not often work with children. Muser, are you volunteering to referee "good and bad teachers" based on what Johnny and Susie are putting on YouTube? Try to imagine what they send EACH OTHER!
Sorry, the post does not stand on its merits.
