QUESTION AND OUTLINE

QUESTION: should cellphones  be allowed in the classroom?

THESIS: The use of Cellphones for educational purposes have a positive impact in students.

TOPIC SENTENCE: Technology is one of the principal tools that people use nowadays

INTRODUCTION:  It facilities a lot aspects in our daily life, for example, technology is used for produce food, technology is used for a communicative purpose and educational field is not the exception, the use of cellphones for educational purposes has a positive impact in students.

THESIS: Teachers need to take into account that students are living in technological area, so education field has the need to adequate curriculum where technology is used. For example, the use of cellphones for educational purposes has a positive impact on students.

1 BODY:

TOPIC SENTENCE: Advantages of use cellphones inside the classroom. 

SUPPORTING SENTENCE: The adequate use of cellphone give to the teacher the opportunity to carry out more dynamic lessons.

COUNTER-ARGUMENT: Cellphones could cause distraction inside the classroom

EVIDENCES:  the adoption of the cell phone as a study tool should be greatly encouraged. The limitations of mobile devices may be a temporal concern if we look at the rapidly advanced functions and numerous applications being introduced every day.  (Usages Pattern of Cell Phone in Classroom: A Case Study of Mathematical and Physical Science Faculty Students of Jahangirnagar University 

Md. Shiblu Miah Md. Moyazzem Hossain* Md. Habibur Rahman Department of Statistics, Jahangirnagar University, Savar, Dhaka, Bangladesh) 

2 BODY:

TOPIC SENTENCE.   The need to adapt the curriculum according to this technological area.

SUPPORTING SENTENCE:  The use of cellphone in an adequate way contribute in educational process

COUNTER-ARGUMENT: Most of the time students use their cellphones only for social media.

EVIDENCES:  Survey: 94% of Students Want to Use Their Cell Phones in Class, A whopping 94 percent of students in a recent survey said they want to use their cell phones in class for academic purposes.

3 BODY:

TOPIC SENTENCE: teachers need to be trained to use this tool in the classroom.

SUPPORTING SENTENCE: It is necessary the adequate the use of cell phones inside the classroom in order that it does not become a distractor factor in the class.

COUNTER ARGUMENT: Despite the necessity of included this kind of material in the classroom, students don't count with internet in schools so the use of cell phones tend to be more difficult to be implemented

    

EVIDENCES: Teaching and Learning with Mobile Computing Devices: Case Study in K-12 Classrooms

CONCLUSION: a Cellphone is an important tool which needs to be used in lessons. But it is necessary that Teachers be able to use cellphone, they should know the advantages, disadvantages and the ways to use the cellphone as a good tool and not as a distractor factor in the classroom.



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