Yes, I do believe that smart phones should be allowed in the classrooms. They should be allowed in the class room because, with all the technical advances in the world smart phones are starting to be used by many students. There are also many benefits of having smart phones, such as having spell check whenever you need it, and access to the Internet.
First of all if students have a smart phone, they are able to use it as a dictionary, such as to see if a word is spelled wrong. So for example the students are writing a story for English, or an essay for history and they need to know how to spell a word, they can simply type it in a SMS message, and if it is spelled wrong it will be underlined. When a word is underlined you can then click on the word and it will give you proper spelling or even suggestions of similar words.
Next if students need to search something for a project or assignment and the computer lab is unavailable, they can simply go onto the web browser on the smart phone and search whatever is needed to be searched. Also say the student needed to find an important date for that history project, they can Google it.
Overall I believe that students should have the opportunity to use smart phones in the classroom because they are very useful tools, that could even help a student pass a class.
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