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cellphones glued in the hands of our pupils.

  • Posted on May 31, 2012 at 23:02

Whenever I enter classroom I always have a little basket with me. A white small basket that I put on the table. In this basket all the cellphones of the children are collected. They can have them back at the end of class.
Now, at first all my colleagues laughed at me. But after half a year most of them had to admit that I did the right thing.
I am not against cellphones in pupils’ hands. Most of my pupils live too far away from school and have to cycle up to 15 miles before the are at school. All the way long there are a lot of dangers and I support parents who give their kids a cellphone for this reason. But I disapprove the use of these objects during class. I do not want to be filmed, I do not want to be recorded and I certainly don’t want my pupils sending and reading text messages, let alone answering the phone. It’s really amazing that these pupils think it normal to have this object in their hands. Believe me or not: when pupil A is in class 1, he sends a text message to pupil B who sits in the classroom next door.
Hang on, don’t you see each other during the breaks?
Another thing to think about. After school they do their homework ( or they are supposed to do their homework.) However during these hours they are on line on msn and they have their cellphone in their hands when doing their writing, and in the meantime they keep up reading their texts they are receiving. How on Earth are they studying?

Well, I don’t think they do. They are not concentrated because of all the media things that are surrounding them. Hence marks like D en F are quite normal.

In the Netherlands we are worried about the bad level of knowledge. I’m not surprised at all as long as we allow our pupils to handle their cellphones and use msn during their time of study. Perhaps we should start with a bit of discipline by asking them to put their phones downstairs with their parents and make sure that they won’t be on the internet whilst doing their homework.

1 Comment on cellphones glued in the hands of our pupils.

  1. gaby says:

    ja , ik denk dat veel kinderen alleen huiswerk moeten maken, en ouders soms ook te moe zijn om de discussie aan te gaan wel of niet computer aan, veel kids gebruiken ook de uitrede dat ze internet nodig hebben voor huiswerk…hihihihi dus je moet als ouders er eigentlijk langs gaan zitten……

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