It
has always been an ongoing debate about whether mobile devices and social media
should be allowed in the school campus or not. But the majority is formed with
people of the opinion that there has to be a restriction on the use of social
media like Instagram and mobile phones in the educational institutions by
students. There are many alterations to this but the favorable side on these
restrictions has always been the strongest.
Factors Of
Disturbing
There
are numerous reasons for authorities to have decided to restrict or ban the use
of social media or mobile phones, especially inside the campus.
Firstly,
apps like Instagram installed on mobile devices such as tablets, phones and
everything similar able to establish an internet connection and to notify with
a signal are big distraction factors. They hold the capabilities to disturb the
whole campus. Children go to school primarily for acquiring education and this couple
of factors connected to each other simply takes the education far away.
Students if granted the use of social media in school, are always observed
discussing what to post, how many Instagram likes did they get, how many
followers do they have, how to buy Instagram likes etc. instead of discussing what did
they read, or what did they studied. Imagine a sudden and loud ringing in the
class, it will, of course, disturb not only the whole class but also the
teacher. So distraction is a major
reason why the mobile devices and gadgets along with media activities on
Instagram and other platforms are not encouraged in schools.
Secondly,
if the students are constantly engaged in using Instagram on their phones in
the school, they will lack attention in class, not understand concepts that are
taught, face issues in their examinations, and so many more such issues in
their academics, that will prove to be harmful in the long run. Continuously
being online on Instagram and receiving notifications about social activity or
direct messages every minute will distract not only the person who has it but also other
students in the class.
From Instagram
Likes To The Obsession
Adding
to these, there are many kinds of misuses that have shown up in the recent past
of Instagram and smartphones. Some children have also been caught red-handed who were
using their devices in the examination hall to cheat on the exam. They searched
for answers on the internet while giving the exam, which is a bad habit and
also an unfair practice towards students who genuinely worked hard for it.
Also, there have been cases where the students were caught taking pictures and
stories in the class or in the washroom, photos of their teachers, etc. and
posting it on Instagram to get more likes instead of getting focused on their
studies.
Along
with this, Instagram if used in excess, it can turn into an obsession. It has
also been seen that students, in order to gain popularity, engage in acts of
even buying likes, or followers, etc. for their posts on social media. They
spend money on such unnecessary things which has absolutely no productive
output for the students.
More Of
Negative Aspects
Definitely,
all these reasons are evident enough to restrict uses of phones and social
media in school but also, school is the place where the students spend the
maximum of their time after their homes. This measure of restricting phones in
school not only has above-mentioned negative aspects but also has many benefits
wherein it reduces the screen-time of the children which in turn maintains good
eyesight, allows face-to-face interactions breaking the virtual world,
establishing better interpersonal relationships, etc. Restricted use of Instagram
also contributes largely in reducing the social evil of cyber-bullying.
Along
with these benefits, reduced use of phones and social media also promotes and
encourages creative thinking. If smartphones are allowed in school, all the
ideas, answers, projects, etc. would be done with ideas copied from the
internet. Whereas restricting the use of them will push children to think out
of the box, come up with original ideas, and engage in creative thinking as
well.
Therefore, with very practical and logical
reasoning of the negative aspects along with the positive benefits of restricting
smart cellular devices and Instagram in the school, everything weighs in favor
of the decision to do so
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