Can a cellphone app improve school safety?

Asked by ABC 17 News

153 Votes

Can a cellphone app improve school safety?

59%

Yes Yes

41%

No No

59%

Yes

3 Comments

Annette Tierney

a mobile app has a lot more functionality and can prevent false alarms that are common with panic buttons on a lanyard.

Amy Grosso

Everyone carriers a cell phone with them everywhere. They find it more important to have than any other object (even a school ID). By utilizing a cell phone for a panic alert system for staff, the entire building is safer.

Chris Noell

Cell phones are like wallets - everyone remembers to bring them so they are at hand during an emergency.

41%

No

2 Comments

Toasty

I put more faith in people, not an app, for a child's safety. Cell phones should be banned in school. I might compromise if cell phones where locked in a locker (muted) and/or a zero tolerance policy for cell phones in the classroom. In-between classes, lunch, etc is OK.

Do you spend more hours a week watching traditional entertainment or user generated content?

Asked by Geekvolution

317 Votes

Do you spend more hours a week watching traditional entertainment or user generated content?

48%

Youtube/Twitch etc Youtube/Twitch etc

52%

Movies, television etc Movies, television etc

48%

Youtube/Twitch etc

6 Comments

Brian Klein

Way more time on new media.

Larry Ewart

Switched to YouTube from Cable like it so much better because of what we normally watch is programmed for us.

Adam Nixon

I'd say it's like 60/40 in favor of things like user generated content, but it has more to do with time than anything else. Due to things like work and chores, I just don't have time during the day for movies/TV. But for a few hours in the evening, I tend to watch more movies/TV, which I prefer.

Andrew Cozzini

This is one of those where I'm voting the honest truth, even though I'd prefer it be the other (while still making time for Geekvolution, of course). I think it's because of how casually I can spend hours on YouTube, as opposed to being intentional about catching up on content I intend to consume.