This can be a mix of both. Having a phone while in the classroom can be very helpful and distracting as well. But then again, I feel it is not balanced. For me, it seems the distraction is way more than its helpfulness.
Shield in school or in class, you can quickly look something up on your phone, broaden your knowledge of a thing you're being taught, check the meaning of a word you don't understand, use its calculator, and various things. And in all of this, you will see how helpful and handy a phone is in such situations.
But then again, while doing all of that, how many of us have always been able to resist the urge to do something else with that phone? Maybe quickly looking up a meme, responding to a WhatsApp message, checking out notifications, playing games, and all of that. I mean, even when you don't have a need for it or there's nothing to use it for in class, can you really sit down for an hour or two hours of class paying attention and having your phone next to you without touching it? Can you? It's just the truth here.
For this and many more reasons I didn't mention, I wouldn't say a student should use their phones freely while in class. Not as if it should be banned, nah. Especially in our higher institutions of learning, there's little that can be done there. But then again, a law can be put in place that students are to keep their phones on silent or even kept away during lectures, except if the lecturer allows for it.
Obviously, the phone in question isn't the problem. We, the users, are the problem. A phone can be very helpful, and it can also distract you; it all depends on you.
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