User talk:Saikat Goswami

Saikat Goswami (talk) 10:04, 27 December 2009 (UTC)Use of Mobile Phones by Students

Before I start discussing about this topic it is significant to venture that what is cell phone and who are students. “A Cell Phone or Mobile Phone is an electronic device used for mobile telecommunications (Mobile Telephony, Text Messaging and all type of Data Transfer) over a cellular network of specialized based stations, known as cell sites”.

On the other hand a Student literally means one who directs zeal at a subject. But, the actual meaning of a student is that “who have attitude, academic skills, awareness, accomplishment, self-discipline, initiatives, interests, an open mind, perceptiveness, objectivity and above all ability towards study and respective environment”.

Now, towards this topic, I will make steps gradually by making some discussions on relationships between the criteria of a real student and a cell phone.

There are some positive sides of using Cell Phones by students which are: 1.	Timing Experiments with Stopwatch. 2.	Photographing apparatus and results of experiments for reports. 3.	Photographing texts/whiteboards for future review. 4.	Bluetoothing project materials between group members. 5.	Receiving SMS and email reminders from teachers. 6.	Synchronizing Calendar/Timetable and setting reminders. 7.	Connecting remotely to the school learning platform. 8.	Recording a teacher’s speech for future revision. 9.	Accessing corresponding sites, related to study, on the Net. 10.	Creating sport narrative movie. 11.	Downloading and listening foreign language products. 12.	Using GPS to identify locations. 13.	Transferring files between school and home etc.

As one might expect, students were at first quite surprised by the notion that mobile phones could actually be used for learning. Because of their prior use pattern, the cell phones were deemed items associated with socializing. But, like all other technological sectors there are also some misuse problems, such as: 1.	Electromagnetic wave emission from mobile phones cause disturbance of sleep and affects the electronic activity of the Brain. 2.	Causes difficulty in concentration, fatigue and headache. 3.	Increases reaction time in a time-dependent manner. 4.	Interrupts the DNA and Blood pressure activities. 5.	May damage key Brain cells associated with learning, memory and movement.

There are some social problems also, which can demoralize the students such as frequently viewed pornographic videos and audios, crime related call activities, mishandling etc.

So, with a focus on the student’s moral evolution, cell phones should be used under the guidance of proper management to ensure and enrich the technological benefits and to promote to a new and sophisticated society.