Since the first public phone call was made thirty-seven years ago by Martin Cooper, the cell phone has become a “need” and no longer a “want” in our lives. The cell phone gave us freedom; we no longer needed to be at a certain location to communicate. Our lives as students and professionals no longer have to stop at the end of our work shift or class period. Cell phones have become necessities to our lives. As students, most of us live through our cell phones and they have become our connection to the world. With all of the new smart phones being developed by our cell phone carriers we can pretty much do anything with our cell phones. We can watch TV, receive e-mail, surf the web, and some phones can serve as a GPS. With our lives becoming more and more hectic these advanced cell phones have only made our lives easier. Due to our busy schedules some of our fellow students may think we need a better form of communication with our professors.
Can we use our cell phones as a form of communication with our professors? What if our professors were able to update us of our class material and assignments via text message? Would we embrace this form of communication with our professors or not? It would surely save us some time and headaches. We would no longer have to wait until the next class period to be notified of updates to our syllabus, we would know before we go to class. This can help our professors and save class time. Once the professor is aware of a change or an error in the class syllabus, he or she can send an automatic text to our phones and on the following class time we will all be aware of the change. We would waste less time on class updates and schedule changes and more time on class material.
To my surprise fifteen out of twenty of our fellow classmates voted against communication with our professors via cell phone. Most students felt this form of communication was too close for comfort; they didn’t want to cross the line of student and professor. One of our fellow classmates said, “Although I can do many things with my cell phone, it is a very personal item to me. Communicating with my professors would make my very personal cell phone … impersonal”. Two out if four professors said this form of communication will be very useful and efficient. So what’s your take on this new form of communication? Are we for it or not?
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