Cell-phone use in the class-room does a lot more harm than good
Connor can you please explain the answer for question number three ? Connor ? Connor... Put your phone away and please pay attention to what I am explaining to the class. If we're planning on allowing the use of cell-phones in high-school classrooms , teachers might as well just get used to that. The pure frustration that teachers will have to face on a daily basis is just one of the many issues that come with allowing the use of cell-phones in the classroom. Photo by Brandi Campbell via Flickr Mohit makes some decent arguments in his blog post about allowing the use of cell-phones in the classroom. Starting with how cellphones can "provide students extra information through search engines". Although that is a valid point and about the only decent argument you can make for ...
It is very unfortunate to see a park meant for children being used by high school students in such a horrible manner. I believe maybe if the city were to renovate the park and residents took more pride in maintaining the park it may help give the park a facelift.
ReplyDeleteI wonder if one possible solution to this issue is to renovate the current park into more of a generic benches-and-tables meetup spot - to almost leave it as it is so it can work as a sort of quarantine for the more unsavory drug-using types - and to implement an extremely bright-coloured, emphatically-for-kids park to deter would-be "cool kids."
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