When you change, the world around you changes.
A smartphone, in short, is a mobile phone with highly advanced features. Modern smartphones have thousands of apps for a wide variety of purposes and functions which help us in our personal and professional lives and altered the way we work, socialize, organize, and entertain ourselves. Nowadays we noticed many students used smartphones in the schools/colleges, and their day to day activities and this can effect positively or negatively on the overall performance of the students.
Smartphones provide information the way we want it. Proper and useful ways of using smartphones help students to improve their overall knowledge and skills and make them smarter. Nowadays so many students are using smartphones in their classroom related and for learning purposes. If they use it properly, they can update their knowledge about new inventions, discoveries, current affairs, development in socio-political activities of different countries in the world etc. Study materials for various competitive examinations, job notifications, online form submission and many more facilities are also available through smartphones. They can also consult experts of various subjects by using smartphones. In short by using smartphones students can find almost everything what they required for their studies. By using smartphones students can make friends and connect people from different places. They can exchange their thoughts and ideas which help them to broaden their minds and enhance their knowledge. In the school also by using smartphone they can discuss and share their ideas/knowledge with friends and teachers. All these things help to make a student’s life easier and become smart by reducing his efforts.
On the other hand though smartphones provide immense knowledge and opportunities to explore new things by the students, it has lots of limitations if they misuse it. Students must be very careful while using this gadget. Misuse of smartphones may create lots of problems individually as well as in the society. Nowadays smartphones are becoming ubiquitous among students. There are a lot of addictive games and other apps available in a smartphone. Especially online games are very addictive among young students. Once a student gets addicted to these games, he or she becomes overly obsessed with these games and it results disruption in his or her routine works and activities. At this point of time, lack of concentration on their studies is a very common symptom. Excessive use of Smartphones by students may cause students to develop eye problems, sleeping problems and may suffer from adverse health effects in the long run. More depending on smartphones makes students lazy and prevent them from unlocking their mental and physical potentials. There are so many unwanted and restricted sites on internet, sometimes through smartphones many young students get explore to these harmful sites and once if they get habituated to these sites, their thoughts become gradually polluted, they find it very difficult to unhook from it and ultimately it ruins their entire careers.
Smartphones are society’s latest addiction. Today’s children and young students are able to adapt to new gadgets faster than people in their thirties and forties and these young minds easily get addicted to smartphone if they are not given proper guidance. Sometimes many teachers and parents are worried about how to deal with smartphones use amongst young students. Parents and teachers should guide and instruct the children and young students on how to use smartphones properly, safely and purposefully in a useful ways. They also should make the young children understand about the harmful effects of misusing smartphones. Generally children learn their first smartphone experience from parents. Parents know best whether their children can handle smartphones properly. So parents should be very cautious about this fact while handling smartphones with their children. Parents also should regularly monitor their children’s social media accounts, activities and browsing history of smartphones and this will help the young children and students from misusing smartphone.
Today Smartphones are becoming the most widely used gadget worldwide. It is also clear that though smartphones offer a number of important advantages to young students, there are also its negative effects equally that should not be overlooked. The young students also should restrain from navigating restricted or potentially harmful sites. It is advisable to young students to use smartphone on a need-to-know basis. Besides purposeful use of smartphones for classroom and academic related activities, students can use it for other various important day to day purposes. By using smartphones they can also refresh and enjoy by listening music and preserve their precious moment with a snap. Finally we can conclude by saying that when our young students use smartphones properly, safely, meaningfully and purposefully only then they will become smarter.
Khumukcham Shyamchandra Singh
Member, KKEF
