Do Tablets Help Learning?

                         In Do Tablets in The Classroom Really Help Children Learn?, by Matthew Lynch on

Gizmodo, Lynch sheds the light on both sides of the argument by giving good examples and bad 

bad examples. Lynch claims tablets shown by statistics increase children performance test wise and

school motivation, as well as introducing newer and more updated textbooks. On the other hand

Lynch also admits that their is problems with tablets in education like it creating a gap from 

privileged students to ones who aren't, application control in tablets especially ones that come 

from home, and privacy issues between "third parties 

                        Analyze: Tablets affecting learning have both pro and con effects and it makes it 

really difficult to pick a side between replacing textbooks over tablets. In addition, tablets have the 

capability to do great things to improve learning which in return can create more successful students. 

However, tablets can also create problems between economic backgrounds which can create even 

more gap between the rich and poor because the rich will have more opportunities with technology 

than underprivileged students. Furthermore, tablets are also harder to control district wise and if they 

aren't checked on students will find a way to put games on them and create distractions during school 

hours which instead of helping education it can make it worse. In conclusion, tablets seem to 

have cons that outweigh the pros so far. 

"Do Tablets in the Classroom Really Help Children Learn?" Gizmodo. 1 Apr. 2015. Web. 31 Jan. 2016. <http://gizmodo.com/do-tablets-in-the-classroom-really-help-children-learn-1694963939>   

Anger: An American History The Rhetorical Precis

                  In Stacy Schiff's article, Anger: An American History published on December 18, 2015

by the New York times she declares that America has had it sense of exceptional-ism since America

has been established and America will continue to believe that idea of being special and superior to

other nations. The author first points out her main thesis by a quote from Paul Ryan and agrees with;

she then supports her claim by using a list of examples of groups that showed the nationalism of

America and the superiority they felt they had over other nations/immigrants; and to conclude she

asserts that this will continue to go on by giving an example of the Mormons still being a target for

around 200 years. Her purpose is to expose the American ideology of its superiority of other nations

in order to bring on change and to be on the look out for it. She seems to have a specific audience

which are the liberals because it is an issue and the conservatives like Trump have pointed out

their opinion.