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Is your school considering a ban on cellphones?
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Don’t let it happen!
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Your hands will get twitchy.
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What are you going to look at and listen to all day?
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The teacher?
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No way!
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Rather than get upset, why not launch your first campaign?
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“Save the cellphone!”
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Who knows, you may become a leader.
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(“We don’t want to grip and moan, get your hands off our cell phone!”)
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Today, the school – tomorrow, the world!
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Start by gathering convincing reasons to keep cellphones in school.
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Even if yours has already banned phones, you can try the following:
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First: Convince Your Parents or Guardians.
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They’re your best allies.
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Here’s just a few points that might persuade the people who love you most to let you keep
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that phone where it belongs: with you at school!
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Having a cellphone in school will improve your grades!
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(They’re listening.
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Now, back that idea up with the following!)
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Some students ride the bus for hours.
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Hours that could be spent getting an early start on your homework.
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(Ok, snapchatting, but we’re trying to convince the adults in the room.
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Wait, are they on Snapchat too?
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Great…)
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It’s hard enough finishing all those assignments before bedtime while juggling your other responsibilities
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– taking the dog for a walk, extra-curricular activities, chores.
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It’s tough being a kid!
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Using a cellphone, you can turn homework in at the last minute.
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You won’t always do that, but tell your parents you want to be graded on what you
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turn in, not when you submit it.
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(Remind them that when colleges see your transcript, they can’t tell the difference between grades
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that mean you left your paper at home and those that mean you weren’t learning.)
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(Don’t stop there, keep it going!)
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You can practice reading and writing as it’ll be in the future.
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The methods you learn in school should remain applicable in 20 years when, instead of writing
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cursive or hauling around heavy books, we’ll be typing book reports and reading online.
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Wait, aren’t we already there?
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Exactly!
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Also, when you leave your cell at home….
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Mom sometimes mistakes it for her cellphone and takes it to work.
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So, she misses messages from her clients all day and instead gets texts from your friend,
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Emma.
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Karen breaking up with Jake is pretty major news, but Mom’s a tad bit more concerned
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about staying in touch with her business contacts…
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And your phone gets lonely.
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Like a kitten that needs to be petted or a puppy longing to play, your cellphone yearns
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for attention.
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It breaks your heart to think of it sitting all alone on the shelf.
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Vibrating into the void…
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Ok, maybe not that one.
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But if you had your phone…
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Dad could text you when he’s going to be late picking you up.
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Which is, like, always.
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With a cellphone, instead of waiting in the rain, you could study in the nice, dry library!
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Remind your parents how overprotective you are – if you know when to expect Dad, you
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won’t worry so much!
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Also!
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You can text Dad if the baseball game you’re playing runs into over-time and extra innings.
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He might still be able to make it!!
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You can let Mom know that the lead in the play got sick, so you and the rest of the
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cast are being let out of rehearsal early.
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Winning campaigns are inclusive.
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Ask your parents if they have any ideas they’d like to contribute.
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Next: Convince Your Teachers: using everything you told your parents plus…
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(Okay. you’ll need to get all scientific!
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Grab a clipboard and say this!)
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Auditory and visual learners can benefit from recording the class on their cellphone.
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Ask your teacher before you film them.
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For that matter, ask anyone before you take pictures or video of them!
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But there’s no denying that some kids retain more information by listening to a recording
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than reading notes.
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When a student needs individual help, the rest of the class can watch educational videos.
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You won’t pass any more notes in class because you’ll be texting!
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Wait, scratch that…
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Next up: Convince the Administration (you know, the people who run the school) by sharing
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some of the above, along with the following arguments…
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Having cellphones at school increases student vocabularies by helping them learn cool words
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like “deterrent”!
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(A deterrent is what stops someone from doing something.
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I’ll give you an example later.)
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The whole student body will excel in national exams!
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Your administration is now officially on board.
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And ... phones can help students get out of a jam.
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Like that time a substitute teacher had your whole class play “hide and seek,” and
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Jayden hid in the music room closet.
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Jayden won the game; no one found him.
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But Jayden couldn’t collect his prize because the door to the closet got jammed!
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Then, the band started practicing!
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Jayden yelled and pounded on the door, but—even though the whole class was looking for him—no
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one heard him over the drums and tubas!
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Luckily, Jayden had his cell!
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Instead of panicking, he calmly texted his friends and shared his location.
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Good thing too!
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Band practice lasts 45 minutes, but when you’re stuck listening to it through a jammed door,
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it feels like an eternity!
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Believe me, if the administration has heard the school band, they feel Jayden’s pain!
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Besides that, you can text each other about when the superintendent is coming down the
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hall and coordinate a surprise party!
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I think they’ll like that!
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Who’s bringing the cake?!
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The biggest reason you’ll give the administration is that, no matter what the rule is, some
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kids are going to bring cellphones to school anyway.
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And some parents—for safety and convenience—will insist that they do.
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Why turn everyone into a bad guy and waste the teacher’s time if they have to constantly
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try to catch students with phones when, instead, you could have a set of reasonable guidelines
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the whole school understands?
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Just don’t volunteer your parents to be on the cellular rule-writing committee without
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asking them first—they might get mad and confiscate your phone!
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Your campaign is going great!
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But you’re not done yet…
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Last but not least: Convince Your Fellow Students.
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I know, most of them are probably already on board because, obviously.
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But you want to make sure they’re fired up!
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You can’t win this fight alone.
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You need your friends campaigning with you, so remind them what’s at stake:
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Amy can talk to Kim at lunch, even though Kim’s home sick that day.
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It’s nice for Kim, she’s lonely.
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It’s also good for Amy.
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Kim’s her best friend, and Kim’s empty chair makes Amy sad.
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A cellphone will fix that!
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Shondra can have music at recess and organize a dance party!
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(This time without Aiden singing…)
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Then Shondra can lend her dance-mix to the gym teacher when the school’s sound system
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fails (again).
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(Instead of having Aiden singing!)
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Brett can use it to talk to his imaginary friend.
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Wait, do imaginary friends use imaginary cellphones?
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If so, what are the monthly fees?
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Speaking of fees …
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Every day, Johnny asks Ryan to “loan” him his lunch money.
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Johnny never pays Ryan back.
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In fact, he doesn’t even really ask…he just kinda takes Ryan’s lunch money.
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Johnny, that’s rude!
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But he doesn’t care, and Ryan feels like telling the teacher would be useless.
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You know why?
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Because Johnny’s one of those guys that always gets away with it.
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He can turn on the charm.
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Or the tears.
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Johnny can convince any adult that … he’s innocent!
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But the next day, Johnny wants money again.
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What can Ryan or any witnesses do?
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Record the whole thing on a cellphone!
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You know, to help Johnny “remember.”
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With the camera rolling, there’s a good chance Johnny won’t want Ryan’s money
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after all!
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In this case, Ryan’s cellphone is not just a record-keeper, it’s a deterrent!
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(Hey, there’s that SAT word!)
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After that, if the mystery meat in the cafeteria scares Ryan—he can use his phone to order
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in!
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And what about poor Reese?
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He broke his arm, and now he can’t climb at recess!
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And climbing is his favorite thing.
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Recess was once the one part of the day he looked forward to the most, but it’s now
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just 30 minutes of boredom and disappointment.
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With a cellphone, Reese could play games with his good hand instead of staring at the jungle
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gym and…well, you get it.
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Just like Reese, you can watch a funny video to cheer you up when you’re having a bad
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day!
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And…
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You won’t get caught passing any more notes in class because you’ll be texting!
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Be sure to ask your classmates for their ideas and add your own reasons in the comments below!
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By the way, about that word “deterrent”?
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Funny, I thought that was what we used to clean laundry.
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