Thu. Mar 28th, 2024

it wouldn’t be wrong if we call our time the digital century. And no one can escape from this wide wave of digitalization, be it young adults or even toddlers. Now the world is having a new kind of generation growing up i.e. toddlers with smartphones in hand. Now, even parents make their children adapt to all the prevailing technology available.

When these growing children became students, they are expected to concentrate on their studies. Which at times proves to be the difficulty for them. Being addicted to smartphones, the notification bell pings in mind of students like an opportunity to run away in an online world, away from studies.

According to the survey of Studyclix, 45% of students admit that they are addicted to their phone. These days students have their accounts on so many social media platforms that they receive notifications every now and then. Studying isn’t a difficult task but when you do it with a distracted mind it wouldn’t deliver you results as it should be. Then you only study for the sake of clearing exam, because your focus lies on somewhere else.

54% of students admit that they check their smartphones on their teachers back. This habit of constantly checking phones is gripping students to an extent that WhatsApp counseling is coming in trend.

  • Here are the pros and cons of smartphones in a student’s life:

PROS:

  1. Using phones gives them liberty to understand the wide world with so many perspectives on a single gadget in hand.
  2. In this digital world, education sector is rapidly growing in the online platform, and if you want your child to ace up with this growing trend than smartphone is the need of the time.
  3. Smartphones contain numerous apps that are a boon to students.
  4. With smartphones, students are always in touch with what is in trend in the society so that they can better understand the world and its diversity.

CONS:

  1. These days smartphone itself exemplifies social media, which means lots of notification, text messages and whatnot, and all of this doesn’t even a bit contribute to the education of students.
  2. Access to this much information at this tender age promotes irrelevant usage and even waste of time.
  3. According to a report in Studyclix millennial teens are sending on an average 120 text messages per day.
  4. Smartphones with all the education material in it give students access to the content which isn’t according to their age and even promotes binge watching.

By Palak Arora

Hello, readers welcome to the world of intellect. A world where you and I grow together reading, listening and loving with all enthusiasm and love for the Divine.

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