Assalamualaikum. Today class we have
to bring laptop again. Yesterday, we have finished the self-editing. Today, we
change my essay to Nadia Zamri and Nadia Salehin for second draft of my essay.
She has to comment and give mark for my essay. I and Zubaidah do the same
thing. We must comment their essay and do the peer-editing. So, they are my
self-editing and peer-editing:
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| Self-Editing |
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| Peer-Editing |
They are my essay that Nadia Zamri
and Nadia Salehin commenting:
AUTHORIZATION OF BRINGING
HANDPHONE AMONG SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS: IS IT BENEFICIAL OR A NUISANCE?
Deputy
Education Minister, Datuk Wee Ka Siong said, “Students would be allowed to
bring hand phone to school starting 2013”. Mobile phones are believed to be
useful in teaching and learning at schools. With mobile phones, students can
access their lessons almost anywhere and anytime, said Quinn, 2000 and Mellow,
2005. Mobile phones could be considered as a motivational tool for learning.
She has conducted many learning activities with mobile phones and these
activities have shown positive outcomes, said Kolb, 2008. Although the
government authorized students to bring hand phone to school, there are strong
claims that bring hand phone to school will bring more negative result than
positive ones.
Bringing hand phones to school can
give more benefits to secondary school students. Firstly, when the secondary
school students bring hand phones to school, it can make lesson easier.
According to Kolb (2008), hand phones which are popular among young students,
might be measured as a motivational factor for learning. Besides that, through
hand phones, young students are able to comprehend their lessons almost
anywhere and at anytime. However, this statement is inconclusive. Those who disagree, saying that bringing hand phone to
school might invite secondary school students to misuse the phone. (You
must delete the comma) [k1] For
example, students use the hand phones to taking and sharing unsuitable graphic
materials. In addition, with bringing hand phone to school can help students to
cheat in examinations easily. According to National Union of Teaching Profesion
(NUTP) President, Hashim Adnan (2012), bringing hand phone to school it would
create more disciplinary problems among the young students.
Another point, with hand phone, it
can gives many useful function and application for the hand phone. Sometimes,
students need to calculate numbers in their Mathematics lesson or another
subjects. So, with a hand phone students can
use to calculate numbers in their Mathematics lesson or another subjects (Do grammar correction =another
subject) [k2] .
Another reason, with hand phone, students can play the game that has quizzes in
hand phones. It can help them to measure their performance. According to
Shiratuddin & Zaibon (2009), mobile game based learning is a good function
of hand phones for secondary school students. What they say might be
true. Nevertheless, bringing hand phone to school will give the negative impact
to students. Hand phone will become a distraction in the student’s lesson. For
example, new messages or incoming calls will surely disturb the secondary
school student’s attention on what the teacher is teaching in front of the
class. According Hashim Adnan (2012), bringing hand phone to secondary school
would damage the young student’s concentration and can make more disciplinary
problems.
Lastly, the benefit of bringing hand
phone to school among secondary school students is students can use the hand
phone during emergency cases which may occur anytime. When the students become
sick at the school, they have to return home late because of extra class or
involve in accident, they can tell directly to her parents about it through the
hand phone. Besides that, if the students are in a dangerous situation like
being alone at the bus stop (too
much spacing) [k3] or
endanger by other students, they can call their parents or the polices for
help. Another reason, when the students do homework and they do not know the
meaning of sentences, they can use hand phone to search internet to find the
meaning. To a certain extent they are right. Nevertheless, the emergency cases
do not happen often especially when the students are in the school areas. Begin
with bring hand phone to school, it can increase social problem among secondary
school students. Students will use hand phones for online facebook, (Capital F) [k4] twitter
and so on. Besides that, they use the hand phones to messages their boyfriend
or girlfriend and this can make a social problems among secondary students. According to Dr Wee (2012), many pregnant teenagers that’s (
the grammar is wrong. Please correct it) [k5] among
young school students who are under the age of 18 and also unmarried.
Due to the evidences that have been
proven by the researchers, it is really clear that bringing hand phone to
secondary school is distract the secondary school student’s attention and it
also can make a disciplinary problems that can create increasing number of
social problems among them.
REFERENCES
Kolb, L. (2008) Toys
to Tools. Eugene: International Society for Technology in Education.\
Sharifah, (2012) Are
handphones and IT gadgets a necessity for students?. The Malaysian Times. Retrieved
December 3, 2012, from http://www.themalaysiantimes.com.my/are- handphones-and-it-gadgets-a-necessity-for-students/
Shiratuddin, N. &
Zaibon, S. (2009, December) Local content game: The preferred choice
for mobile learning space. Retrieved
December 4, 2012 from http://www.ascilite.org.au/conferences/auckland09/procs/norshuhada.pdf
Tan, E. L. (2012, July
16). Students can take
handphones, IT gadgets to school from 2013. The Star. Retrieved
December 3, 2012, from http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2012/7/16/nation/20120716193345&sec=nati on
Technology Education
(2006). Cell Phones: A Tool for Cheating. Retrieved December
4, 2012 from http://www.bamaed.ua.edu/edtechcases/case7.html
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