Learning Task 5: A school debate is a perfect venue to practice learners' skills in
making a stand on an issue by expressing statements intermingled with facts that
are selected to support certain opinions. Your task is to go through a debate piece
identify pure opinions answering
questions
Write your answers in your notebook.
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follow.
Debate Topic: Replacing textbooks with tablets in schools
Pro Debater: My personal view is that mandating to replace textbooks with
tablets will be beneficial since it poses little disadvantages. Tablets
increase standardized test scores. A research study, conducted in
Auburn, Maine, showed that kindergarten students using iPads
scored much higher on literacy tests than students that did not use
the device. I think, this is the primary advantage of using tablets
over books.
Aside from that, tablets cost 50%-60% less than textbooks.
According to the FCC, the U.S. spends about $7 billion per year on
textbooks, but many of them are seven to ten years out of date.
Advocates claim that using tablets instead will save money and
improve learning.​