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Annotated Bibliography: Cell Phones

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Kerstin Nichols
Anna Richardson
ENG-112
26 August 2016
Annotated Bibliography: Cell Phones This is an annotated bibliography for research on cell phones. I am researching the positive and negative effects of using cell phones in school. I plan to use these articles for the effects that cell phones have on students in and out of class, the impact it has on the health and the grades.

Azad, Ali and Smith, David. "Enforcement and Effectiveness of Rules in Dealing with Cell Phone Use in the Classroom." Competition Forum, vol. 12, no. 2, 2014., pp. 111-117.
Cell phones are a distraction to everyone around them. They can cause others to lose their focus on what they are doing. The person they distract the most is the person using them. It can …show more content…

"The Only Thing We Have to Fear is... 120 Characters." TechTrends, vol. 56, no. 1, 2012., pp. 19-33doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11528-011-0550-4.
The only thing worse than cheating on a test or distracting everyone around you is cyberbullying. “Cyberbullying is more pervasive because the bully can reach a large number of people at once. It also may be more harmful because the bully does not have to be physically present while the person is being bullied.”(Thomas Mcgee 21). This causes major issues inside and outside of school. Cell phones make it easier for bullies to reach more people in a shorter amount of time. It makes it to where they can hide their identity. Phones make it so much easier for bad things to happen.
B, Anboucarassy P., and Mumtaz Begum. "Effect of Use of Mobile Phone on Mental Health of Higher Secondary School Students." i-Manager's Journal on Educational Psychology, vol. 8, no. 2, 2014., pp. …show more content…

It helps them stay in contact with the teacher and other students about assignments they may have forgotten. Using the internet or texting is a very common thing now and it is helpful, but also a problem. Texting causes to many distractions for student at school, at home and social media.
Thomas, Kevin, P.H.D., and Marco A. Muñoz EDD. "Hold the Phone! High School Students' Perceptions of Mobile Phone Integration in the Classroom." American Secondary Education, vol. 44, no. 3, 2016., pp. 19-37. This article is about how cell phones and electronics affect the students and the affects that this has on the class as a whole. If the students do well with the technology then the teachers can use it without causing problem for the students. Some think that it is better than the old method of teaching.
Kafyulilo, Ayoub. "Access, use and perceptions of teachers and students towards mobile phones as a tool for teaching and learning in Tanzania." Education and Information Technologies, vol. 19, no. 1, 2014., pp. 115-127doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10639-012-9207-y.
This article is about the importance of cell phones for people because not everyone has the access to certain things that they need. With cell phones you can be more mobile while doing work. Cell phones are very important to some

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