Sunday, September 26, 2010
Texting in class??
So I guess we have established that I'm the kind of person who loves to text and that there are many others that do too. Well back in high school the administrators would always tell us that all electronic devices were prohibited. But did that really ever stop us from taking out our phones during class? The worst that they could do to us if we were caught is give us a referral or take our phones away and have our parents come and pick it up at school. But even after that we will keep texting. Texting is like a disease that has taken over us and we have lost control. We have come up with slick moves when we hide our texting. The one I would use is putting my back pack on the floor and having it open with my cell phone on the bottom so I could see when I get a text cause the light would flash and I would reach down and pretend to look for something and instead I'd be texting back. Another thing we do is put the phone under our desk and since we have memorized the keypad, it would be easier to text back without getting caught. Now we are college students and no longer high school students but some of our texting habits stay with us. Although a lot of our professors don't actually say that we are not allowed to text during class I guess you can say that they assume that we shouldn't. We have realized that there are some buildings that have no signal for our phones and we could probably say that they did that for a reason. Mrs. Sarah has said to us straight up that she does not want us to be texting during class and I personally am scared to ever take my phone out in her presence. But should we really have to be told to not text during class? I think now that we are in college we should try to control our urge of texting someone during class and put our phone somewhere that we cannot be looking at it every minute. This is a very hard task to do but not impossible. This can sound pretty funny to some people but this is what texting really does to us. I'm working on not texting during my professors lectures because some of the lectures are pretty long and boring so I usually take out my phone and start texting someone.
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Yes I agree with you that everyone texts in class no matter what the consequences are. What i do is have my sweater on and put my phone in my sweater pocket where I can feel it if it vibrates and easily text back just by poking out the key pad part of the phone. Now is a bit more hard because of the new technology of the touch screen phones so you never know if you did press the button. I never text in comp class though because it is the the class that I have trouble with so I have to pay attention.
ReplyDeleteIt’s definitely difficult to not text in class sometimes, especially when there is nothing else to do. Sometimes you already know the information, so texting gives you something to do along with it being a way to communicate with your friends. Now since I am in college I realize the importance of paying attention and not being distracted my text messages, especially in the classes that I tend to have trouble in.
ReplyDeleteI am a guilty person for texting in class. I rather do it when its a boring lecture. Because I do not want to get kick out of class!
ReplyDeleteI am definately a texter and have found myself texting in class, especially lectures. Sometimes the topic of the text is more interesting than the lecture and I can't help but text. Texting in class has become a bad habit among many students and I think we have to be careful. We don't want to be disrespectful and we have to remember that we are in school to learn. I mean if mom is texting then ok why not. It's just really important that we don't spend the entire lecture texting. Great post!
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