SHOULD USAGE OF PHONES BE ALLOWED IN OUR HIGH SCHOOLS ?

Over the years we have witness the devastating  impact phones has on students academic, social and moral lives, thereby prompting policy makers to banned it use in order to safeguard their futures leaders from becoming unproductive misfits in society.

One question question left to be answered by policy makers is " What are they doing about the phone producing companies". a look at the market and you will be amazed at the range of sophisticated phones with various degrees of functionality, at the top of the consumer chain is our beloved high school students.

Once technology is advancing our students also advance in their tricks of hiding and using of phones on our various campuses. i once visited my senior housemaster office way back in high school and in one side of his office is this huge "chop box" much bigger than a first year student own and in it are phones which dated years before i wrote my Basic Certificate Examination meaning upon all the rules made to banned phone usage in high school students still use phones on campus.

Then one will asked are the laws not enforce ? yes they are enforce and there are some many disciplinary actions taken against this, so why then are students still bent on using phones in school? 

this is a question currently been research on by several educationist and calls for all stake holders to take part in this discussion.

It is here with us and we can not change it but all we need to do is adjust to it, what am i trying to say the world is changing and technology seems to spear head the change and everybody acknowledge this fact and that it is the basis for development to take place.

So why then not shift the goal post from the thousands of negatives reasons why phones should not be use in high school to a more productive program as to How can we safeguard our students to use phones for not just educational benefits but social and moral aspect too.

I could remember once in my physics class in high we were doing a lesson on projectiles and truth be told only God knows what i learn that day cause the whole lesson was full of " ASSUME" with this what will become of me after school since i was taught to assume everything, from my point of view i will say nothing is real since it is all fictions but should technology be embedded in high school curriculum i would have watch dozen tutorials or even perform simulations all fostering my knowledge.

Imagine a teacher prepares notes then upload it on all students platform (Facebook, whats app, twitter) all that a students does is to access, those files and read when he or she finds difficulties they collaborates on discussions platform to solve issues, mind you the 21st century learning ability of students is to

• think critically

• collaborative learning

with this i suggest is time we start discussing and focusing our resources and time on how to successfully integrate the traditional classroom to modern trends with technology as the main theme.

is time our systems resumes producing educated students not schooled students.