Lee Hao Lit (BBA 01323)
Loh Jia Huai (BAC 01337)
Siao Ai Ling (BAC 01344)
Thien Jiao Mhun (BBA 01322)
Low Yih Ai (BAC 01334)
Final Speech What is smartphone? As we know smartphone was a version of mobile phone that was upgraded. The different between smartphone and mobile phone was their functions. For example, smartphone didn’t have keypad and it has the functions of internet. What are the advantages of bringing mobile phone to school? It could provide a lot of function, it also an effective and reliable tools and features. Students also can use it while emergency situation and it can help them keep in touch with their parents. Technology plays an important role in twenty first century. Modern advancements such as the invention of smartphones have made life much more easy and convenient. Smartphones are creating convenience for students that can be functional in many places and purpose such as researching and communicating. Smartphones can substitute notebook when students go for class without any notebook or tablets. The things that we previously had to do on the computer can now be done in the palm of our hand. Thus, the basic smartphones now come with at least short message service (SMS) and the basic features that included such as internet access, web browser, applicable for everyone and portable. Although smartphones create convenience, parents have the responsibility to instruct children to use smartphones in the right way. Smartphones are not phones just for gaming or social networking. With the built-in Internet capabilities, most of the students use smartphones to communicate and keep in touch with friends and family through Facebook messenger, WhatsApp and WeChat because it is free and just need network or 3G Data to access. Not only can that, with the internet access, students always access internet or Wi-Fi to search any information that they want everywhere. Apart from that, allowing smartphone in school can help students in their study. Smartphone are most useful, effective and reliable tools and features. They have a camera, a notebook, an internet connection, a calculator and so on. Using a smartphone in school can certainly help student when doing homework and research. For example, a camera equipped
phone can be used to take picture that related to school projects or assignment. This has proven that allowing smartphone in school is definitely an advantage and very useful in academic. Other than that, other tools such as calculator can be used in Mathematics lesson when the students forgot to bring their scientific calculator. For those who using the calculator function in smartphone, it is actually an advantage for them rather than they do nothing in Mathematics lesson. Thus, students can get benefits from smartphone if they use for good purposes. Besides, students can google anything on the spot when lecturer gave some task to them. For instances, they can use the internet connection to find information of the task given. Therefore, academic help is an advantage of allowing smartphone in school that brings more benefits than harm especially to students in school. Emergency contact is one of the reason that smart phone shouldn’t ban in school. Based on the results that we are searching from internet, that was a case happen at Columbia High School on 20 April 1999. Two teenagers walked into Columbia High School carrying submachine guns and homemade bombs intending to do some major image in school. Thirteen innocent students were murdered and many more would have been. One of the students of that high school is hiding for his life. This student calls 911 and describe the location of the school and what the murderers looked like. Try to imagine if there are no cell phone for the student and many others, the amount of student who are been murdered are not that less. Of course, students can use public phone to make an emergency call, but it is too late to take the action because students are taking the risk to use public phone to make an emergency call and valuable time can be lost when finding a nearby phone. It may lead them to dangerous. When there are happen emergency situations, students not only taking their risks to make an emergency call to appropriate authorities, they also cannot even find a public phone at the roadside. This is because, public phone have been destroyed by spoilers. They love to destroy stuff at the roadside or playgrounds that build by government. Family also can contact with their children in case of an emergency situation or when their children need to arrange a different method of getting home. For example, students can contact their parents to arrange a ride home when ill or they can request a forgotten book or project be brought to the school. As supporting to the point of emergency contacting above, the benefits of bringing smart phones to school can be able to provide a sense of securities to student and parents at the same
time, by keeping in touch between the both parties. Sense of security is the ability of mobile phones to reduce uncertainty and provide feelings of safety for its users. For an example, every smartphone can be able to install an application of Global Positioning System (GPS) which is a navigation system that provides location and time information in any weather conditions. Hence, the parents can use this application to track their children in an emergency situation time during schooling. Cause who knows and no one can able to predict what will happen in the next minutes, so this is the best security way to protect students by keeping in contact with their parents. Besides, by sticking in point sense of securities, students will tend to be more secure while they are having smart phones with them during schooling hours. For an example, although every school are providing public phones, but there is still having vandalism case that damage and spoilt the public phone and lead to difficulties to other students who need to make an emergency call. Thus, if school did not banned student who brings smart mobile phones to school, it will make their life in school much easier and less dependency on public phones as well.
