McCoy, B. (2016, January).

Digital Distractions in the Classroom Phase II:

Student Classroom use of Digital Devices for Non-Class Related Purposes.
Retrieved from http://en.calameo.com/read/00009178915b8f5b352ba
In this informative journal, the journalist goes beyond expectations to provide
information on

the usage of smartphones in classroom settings. It provides

an abundance of valuable statistics that the author attained from several

surveys and research in collaboration with professors and students and also
from various cited sources throughout the reading. The community problem
that will be highlighted connects directly with this information. Although
smartphones help in many ways, they can be a huge distraction during class
and the author breaks this topic down into segments of different sub topics.
That being said, this is a completely reliable and helpful resource to use.

Schaffhauser, D. (2016, January 20). Research: College Students More

Distracted Than Ever. Retrieved from
https://campustechnology.com/articles/2016/01/20/research-collegestudents-more-distracted-than-ever.aspx
This research article provides great background information on the topic. It
doesnt really give us opinion based content but it gives us a lot of research
results statistics that can be used for the paper to fill it with reliable
information. These statistics include the amount of times students check
their phones a day and how much of that is for non-learning purposes. It is

information like this that will enhance an informative paper and presentation
to engage the audience and stun them with the shocking little numbers that
we go through every day without even realizing it.

Jungwirth, J. (2016, September 18). Texting in the classroom: Area schools

set limits on cellphone use to minimize distractions. Retrieved from
http://rapidcityjournal.com/lifestyles/texting-in-the-classroom-area-schoolsset-limits-on-cellphone/article_d59e7a80-a8da-5db8-9e0054ea8b1f5511.html
Although not the best source to use, this article does include the
perspectives of different professors. There are many different quotes used
throughout the article. These quotes are derived from different professors
and their opinions. These sources are usually great to use because we have
many different sources within on single article. Talking about a problem
might not seem as a problem until you hear it from different perspectives
and that is the part that makes this source helpful.

Busch, B. (2016, March 8). Fomo, stress and sleeplessness: are smartphones
bad for students? Retrieved from
https://www.theguardian.com/teacher-network/2016/mar/08/children-mobilephone-distraction-study-school

This article provides us with great topics about the dangers of technology.
The author includes an abstract paragraph at the beginning that includes
both the positives and the negatives of the usage of these devices. After
that, the entire article provides us with information about the dangers of it.
There are several different topics that are highlighted and under those
individual topics, information is given about that topic and includes statistics
and research results from some good and some not so great outside sources.
Being that this is a well-known media website and the good sources it
provides, it is a helpful source for the final paper.

Kamenetz, A. (2015, November 10). How To Get Students To Stop Using Their
Cellphones In Class. Retrieved from
http://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2015/11/10/453986816/how-to-get-studentsto-stop-using-their-cellphones-in-class
NPR provides us with a great article that instead of telling us the problems
with technology use in class, it assumes we already know that so it gives us
two professors perspective and solutions to this growing problem. This ties
in well with our final paper because part of it is to find a call to action or a
solution and this gives us two different ones from the professors themselves.
From these two solutions, two different perspectives are shown. One
professor offers a reward to turn off cell phones and leave them in the front
of the class while the other doesnt believe that students should be denied

cell phone use so he created a system that allows usage at certain times
during the class. As two different perspectives are shown, this article doesnt
favor one side or the other which makes it great to use its valid information.

Kowalski, K. (2016, March 10). When smartphones go to school. Retrieved

from
https://www.sciencenewsforstudents.org/article/when-smartphones-go-school
This informational source is formatted in a way that is easy to understand
and break into segments. Whether one believes that phones are good or bad
in school, this source will give us information from both sides and highlight
key words and points at the end. It gives us the good of phones in class such
as quickly looking up something the professor might have said but it also
gives us the bad such as texting in class and getting completely off topic.
The source also gives tips on not what the professor should do, but what the
students should do. This is a great source to use because it emphasizes key
points that are worthy of discussion from various sides of the arguments.

Graham, E. (2016). Using Smartphones in the Classroom. Retrieved from

http://www.nea.org/tools/56274.htm

This source is mainly from the point of view of one single professor. The
author states that Professor Halla has been teaching for 22 years so that
verifies the credibility of this articles source. He has his own method of
making his classroom smartphone friendly. He uses fun ways to keep the
students engaged at all times and not getting distracted by social media or
other thing the phone might be able to do. The article is organized into
Professor Hallas tips to keep a classroom smartphone friendly. It is a good
source to use because it gives good points to one side of the argument and
can be used to fill the paper with information on the good of smartphones in
class.

CBC News. (2015, September 2). Smartphones in the classroom: a teachers

dream or nightmare. Retrieved from
http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/smartphones-in-the-classroom-a-teachers-dream-or-nightmare-1.3211652
This source shows us what many school districts have done in order to satisfy
the growing need of technology for students. According to the article, there
is a 1:1 policy that gives each student a tablet or a laptop specifically for use
in school. This may be about high schools but we have seen this trend
growing in for-profit universities and this can lead us to believe that in the
near future, big public universities will adopt this policy as well. What this
article does is that it leads us to a new subtopic to be discussed and

connects with the community (universities) by giving new ideas that may be
implemented in the future. This is one of the many solutions that could
prevent the problem of student distraction.

Howard, J. (2015, July 10). Smartphones And Schoolwork May Not Be Such A
Great Combination After All. Retrieved from
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/07/10/smartphonesschoolwork_n_7763390.html
This article is more on the problematic side of the argument. Based off of
several surveys, and mainly one coming from Rice University, the article
explains to us how smartphones really are distracting the students from their
work. A professor surveyed students before and after they had smartphones
and the results changed immensely. This professor believes, based on his
results, that phones take away valuable learning time in the classroom but
also believes that they can serve for some good (not very much) through
guided in-class use. This is a good source to use because it is information
mostly based on real results and not much opinions. It ties in directly with
the topic because it informs us on results from a well-known university of the
problem being discussed.

Baldauf, R. (2015, March 30). The Pros and Cons of Technology in the
Classroom. Retrieved from
http://highschool.latimes.com/los-alamitos-high-school/the-pros-and-cons-oftechnology-in-the-classroom/

This article basically ties everything together into short brief sentences. It
simply and generally gives us the pros and the cons of technology use in
class. What makes it valuable is that it discusses which one outweighs the
other. There is no certain answer but it could be a good rhetorical question to
ask the audience. It is a good source to use because it sums up all the subtopics that will be discussed and includes the question we all want to know;
is technology in class good or bad?