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Having Cell Phones in Elementary School Today's new generation

is referred to as the iGeneration because of such.

technologies as the iPhone, iPad, iTouch, and so forth (Rosen 8). As recently as the past

decade, schools have had to determine their stance on students with personal electronics

in the school, from the use of storage devices such as the flash drive, to the use of iPods

for listening to music and podcasts, to the use of cell phones. Many schools quickly

developed policies against the use of any personal electronic devices. The policies were

aimed mostly at the high school level but trickled down to the lower grades. Very

recently, though, educators have come to realize that student use of personal electronics

may alleviate the stress of not having available enough computers, tablets, and other

electrons in a timely, readily accessible manner for individual student use. They also

have come to realize that banning cell phones in school may be too difficult to enforce.

Parents want immediate access to their children, for example. However, addressing cell

phones in high school, or even junior high school, is somewhat different than addressing

it for elementary-aged students.

A major concern for children’s use of cell phones centers on the issue of

electronic bullying. Students on all grade levels encounter bullying, whether they are

witnesses to it, are victims of it, or are perpetuators of it. What makes electronic

bullying even more of a concern is that children do not always know the identity of the

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perpetrator, whether it is a single person or a group of people, and if the child knows the

person (Kowalski & Limber 22). Because electronic bullying can be easily transmitted to

others, the potential audience for electronic bullying is limitless. Schools are left to

develop policies and procedures for dealing with electronic bullying, which includes

educating their students, teachers, and parents regarding electronic bullying. Part of the

debate on whether to allow student-owned cell phones into the elementary school, then,

is the issue of student protection against electronic bullying and also issues of whether

students will abuse the access to their cell phones with inappropriate text-messaging and

gaming, for example.

On the other side of the coin, however, is looking at how often children use cell

phones and for what purpose. Rosen found in his study that parents report that their

elementary school-aged children are utilizing technology at a much younger age than

their older brothers and sisters did (10). They are growing up in an environment where

technology is ubiquitous in all areas of their lives. They have information and the means

to learn at their fingertips. Five to eight year olds communicate electronically half an

hour daily. Nine to twelve year olds communicate electronically 2.5 hours a day. Half of

pre-teens have personal cell phones and iPads (Rosen 10). Rosen argues that educators

might consider using various electronic devices for a means of delivering virtual content,

having online class discussions, and having students to complete and submit assignments

online.

Rosen’s idea that educators utilize students’ personally owned technology in the

classroom brings one to the consideration of what today’s students should be learning in

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Last Name 1 Student's Name Tutor's Name Course # dd mm yyyy Having Cell Phones in Elementary School Today's new generation is referred to as the iGeneration because of such. technologies as the iPhone, iPad, iTouch, and so forth (Rosen 8). As recently as the past decade, schools have had to determine their stance on students with personal electronics in the school, from the use of storage devices such as the flash drive, to the use of iPods for listening to music and podcasts, to the use of cell phones. Many schools quickly developed policies against the use of any personal electronic devices. The policies were aimed mostly at the high school level but trickled down to the lower grades. Very recently, though, educators have come to realize that student use of personal electronics may alleviate the stress of not having available enough computers, tablets, and other electrons in a timely, readily accessible manner for individual student use. They also have come to realize that banning cell phones in school may be too difficult to enforce. Parents want immediate access to their children, for example. However, addressing cell phones in high school, or even junior high school, is somew ...
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