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802277eb00a4 | 1F9026998271 | if the school system somehow managed to squeeze in enough time for an extracurricular activity for everybody without adding any time to the school day, it could potentially be wasteful of the teacher's already limited teaching time. | Claim | Effective |
fbe606e893a7 | 1F9026998271 | If we only have 45 minutes per class right now, imagine how little it would be adding another period. Educators would be in a constant struggle to cram enough information in such a short class time. If this did happen, it could be very possible that the school year might be stretched out so students could properly lear... | Evidence | Adequate |
36b8abe7fb82 | 1F9026998271 | I firmly believe that making extracurricular activities compulsory for students is not a good idea. Those activities are meant to be optional, and if every student were to do them schools would have to monopolize everybody's personal time by extending the school day, drain the little instructional time teachers have by... | Concluding Statement | Effective |
9ebe42a623b1 | 1FB2C0AFFDA9 | because he said the sun is more colse from us and mars is more close from the sun but he said tahat venus is actually a planet and hes telling us a lot about the planets and about the ones are more close from us and about the stars he talking to and the planets surface temperatures average over 800 degrees the earth, v... | Evidence | Ineffective |
4f8183697421 | 1FB2C0AFFDA9 | if our sister planet is so inhospitable, why are scientists even discussing | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
4d71b88e079f | 1FD98DABF889 | The scienties are trying to put humans on the planted venus they say its human temp there so we can live there. They say there are dangers stuff in venus they still have to see ow would they grow food and kill animals and take it down there. I think this is a good idea becuase it would make the earth a lot smaller in p... | Evidence | Ineffective |
c1dfb919c4b1 | 200AA7A37060 | Over the years many schools have assigned summer projects as a way to help keep students minds active while on break. These projects can include reflection essays, construction, reading catalogs, and many other wonderful things. At the moment many of these projects are designed by the teachers, however many schools are... | Lead | Effective |
21b6f32b48b8 | 200AA7A37060 | Students designed teacher approved projects would be better for the future of education | Position | Effective |
d273c2b0366d | 200AA7A37060 | they would allow students to think critically, | Claim | Effective |
0bcf56951827 | 200AA7A37060 | increase their desire to learn, | Claim | Effective |
e579b703d0c5 | 200AA7A37060 | tailor projects to their strengths and learning styles. | Claim | Effective |
a6c188222975 | 200AA7A37060 | Most teacher designed projects rely on specific structures and check list drawn up by the teacher for the students to fallow. They do no prompt the students to: think, learn, ponder, and reflect, rather they give students a list of mundane tasks to complete and check off. Critical thinking and complex learning comes fr... | Evidence | Effective |
362e45b76299 | 200AA7A37060 | Often times struggling students or children who "hate" school may just feel bored and there are many students who don't try in school because they feel like the subjects they study have no purpose or that it will have no value for their future career. These students often do not participate in teacher designed summer p... | Evidence | Effective |
325c88e361c9 | 200AA7A37060 | While many teachers say no child left behind that is often not the case with summer projects. Because these projects are assigned before the teacher gets the chance to really know the students a it is difficult to adjust to a students specific needs. A teacher may assign project with lots of heavy reading not knowing t... | Evidence | Effective |
468ba2223a46 | 200AA7A37060 | Some may contradict that student designed projects would promote laziness and the students would not learn anything of value from them. This is why these projects would have to be teacher approved; | Counterclaim | Effective |
2579a3e8aec7 | 200AA7A37060 | however, even if they are not the value of learning to think and the other benefits of student designed projects outweighs the over specified structure of the teacher designed projects. | Rebuttal | Effective |
ba370e3adb71 | 200AA7A37060 | In the end student designed projects are most beneficial to students due to their freedom to allow for critical thinking, the study of subjects students enjoy increasing learning motivations, and their unique ability to be tailored to each students needs. | Concluding Statement | Effective |
693c16fab0ba | 2010E484FDBB | The technology used in the article shouldn't be used to read students emotional expressions | Position | Adequate |
b2daa16541ad | 2010E484FDBB | They shouldn't because if a student is very sad or upset even angry you'll want to know why and probably ask them why they feel that way.
Some students might want to talk about it, | Claim | Adequate |
7a3c7c5f125d | 2010E484FDBB | but most probably wouldn't so it might make them even more upset or angry and sad if you ask whats wrong and they dont want to talk about it. Also if it a personal issue the student is having and they tell you what's wrong and you can't help them they might feel like they're doing something wrong and get sad or depress... | Evidence | Adequate |
ed2c2d4aec6a | 2010E484FDBB | Also if this was used to read the emotinal expressions of students in the classroom I feel like it would be a distraction and take time out of the students learing to figure out how every student is feeling based on the facial expressions | Evidence | Adequate |
2a49bb2a4078 | 2010E484FDBB | Another thing could be what of the technology making this possible is wrong, so you walk up to a student and ask them why they're so happy but they are actually really sad. | Claim | Adequate |
8051d2a3939d | 2010E484FDBB | What if the student just changes their apperance to make them look a different way when they are read for their emotion. | Evidence | Adequate |
846665925602 | 2010E484FDBB | The last thing is what are the teachers going to do with the imfomation on how they think their students are feeling based on a facial expression | Evidence | Ineffective |
2649f677ef49 | 2010E484FDBB | Maybe in a college where you want to be a consuler or something along those lines it would be a good thing to have to teach you how to read others emotions better, | Counterclaim | Adequate |
8807f967414d | 2010E484FDBB | but it would be useless in a middle or high school classroom and just cause distractions. | Rebuttal | Adequate |
110e241a098a | 2010E484FDBB |
This shows why I dont think the technology would be good in the classroom. Becasue the technology could be wrong. Students could change their apparence to seem a different way. And it's useless to the teachers to have this information. | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
284bd05be371 | 20162733792B | Computers don't have emotions, but you do! Imagine technology that seriously works for you, not only at home but also in the classroom! If technology could accurately read human facial expressions the learning possibilities could be endless. For example, think about that one story that you're forced to read that you ju... | Lead | Effective |
73a45fc59101 | 20162733792B | The use of technology to read the emotional expressions of the students in a classroom is unbelievably valuable.
| Position | Effective |
c5fe114149f9 | 20162733792B |
Technology in the classroom has already begun to advance rapidly with educational websites such as ; Google Classroom, Edulastic, Khan Academy,and Mathia. The facial recognition technology could enhance a students comprehension to maximum potential. | Claim | Effective |
0dc1233b54c5 | 20162733792B | In the passage " Making Mona Lisa Smile" the author states in paragraph 6 line 6,"A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored,"Dr Huang predicts."then it could modify the lesson like an effective human instructor.",this kind of technology can possibly boost testing score and even h... | Evidence | Effective |
a020f836fd18 | 20162733792B | Many parents or administrators may not agree that this sounds real or possible, | Counterclaim | Adequate |
ef1cab9001d0 | 20162733792B | but the logic is right before our eyes. | Rebuttal | Adequate |
d123b3c731da | 20162733792B | In the text the author states how the technology performs the task of reading emotional appeals. For example, in paragraph 3 line 1 the author says,"The process begins when the com puter constructs a 3-D computer model of the face; all 44 major muscles in the model must move like human muscles. Movement of one or more ... | Evidence | Adequate |
5ca720099a80 | 20162733792B | So now what do you think? Computers advance more and more everyday, however facial recognition may just be the beginning. Learning in classroom has become based on all technology in many different forms. Facial tachnology will broaden our horizons with better test scores and happier students that can understand the mat... | Concluding Statement | Effective |
a76e1864b0a1 | 2017D32A0639 | Many schools across the country require students to complete summer assignments to assure that they continue their pursuit of knowledge even without a teacher present. But should these assignments be designed by the teacher or should they be designed by the student? If a student were given freedom with their project, i... | Lead | Effective |
1a9843527ce3 | 2017D32A0639 | Teachers should put that restriction on the student and give them a specific assignment to ensure that the appropriate amount of work gets done. | Position | Effective |
2591819b15f7 | 2017D32A0639 | Students are less likely to complete a project that they have freedom on and if they do complete it, the quality would suffer greatly compared to if a teacher gave them a prompt or a specific task to accomplish. | Claim | Effective |
22710b811e88 | 2017D32A0639 | The point of a summer assignment is to prevent to student from losing knowledge or getting rusty because of a break. Although the point of the summer break is to let students relax until the next year starts, it's still important that they keep their studies up. Assignments shouldn' be student-designed because that wou... | Evidence | Effective |
efb6831124cf | 2017D32A0639 | to give the student reassurance and to make sure the student doesn't do too much work over what's supposed to be a break, yet it keeps them on track. | Claim | Adequate |
d0a7fd355097 | 2017D32A0639 | If an assignment is student-designed then the student will do one of three things: overwork themselves, not fully apply their capabilities, or not do the work at all. | Evidence | Ineffective |
43d3f4ce3209 | 2017D32A0639 | For these reasons, summer assignments should all be teacher-designed. | Concluding Statement | Ineffective |
337e2d578a2c | 204F13D548E9 | Mars hasn't stayed the same over the years. Mars has changed a lot over the years. And Mars (aka. the red plant) will continue to changed until the end of time.
| Lead | Ineffective |
cd33a16eaf77 | 204F13D548E9 | While we were observing Mars on 1976 with Viking 1 we seen a figure that looked like a human face and that strected 2 miles from end to end. At the Jet Propulsion Lab there had to be a great deal of suprise. Peole started to imidiately think this was created by aliens. That was still to be figured out.
Over the next 2... | Evidence | Ineffective |
6552b4d9b865 | 20897B41AFB8 | While almost everyone owns and uses a mobile device, using them while behind the wheel of a vehicle should be prohibited. | Position | Adequate |
16b3df2f5c10 | 20897B41AFB8 | While mobile devices are useful in everyday life | Counterclaim | Adequate |
5d0180e94ebc | 20897B41AFB8 | they are hazardous and in some cases deadly when a vehicle is involved. | Rebuttal | Effective |
85774cd41d6f | 20897B41AFB8 | Devices cause distractions that can put not only the driver of the vehicle at risk but also those inside the vehicles, and the people all around the car. Distracted driving is one of the most dangerous types of driving and according to Edger Snyder & Associates, "the use of cell phones while driving leads to 1.6 millio... | Evidence | Effective |
a5885cf2340c | 20897B41AFB8 | Although a crash may not seem that bad, some of these crashes result in many deaths and injuries. | Claim | Effective |
3ca8c776242e | 20897B41AFB8 | In a 2018 study from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, it states that distracted driving claims over 2,841 lives (Andrew. currin. ctr@dot. gov 2020). These numbers represent not only the drivers, but also include their passengers and any pedestrians who have died as a result of the negligence and reck... | Evidence | Effective |
a8300a3637f3 | 20897B41AFB8 | One of the other major issues that distracted drivers face is the financial costs incurred after the initial wreck. | Claim | Effective |
588f4ff15353 | 20897B41AFB8 | The people that suffer the most financial damage are the drivers, followed by their passengers, and then pedestrians involved in the accident. Some reason drivers suffer the most is because they are left paying for the damages to the cars and for personal injuries, not to mention their insurance premiums potentially in... | Evidence | Effective |
ca209cce7abf | 20897B41AFB8 |
On top of the financial and physical pain these types of accidents cause, there is also the emotional pain of the victims and the victim's families. | Claim | Effective |
5d990e79d307 | 20897B41AFB8 | When a victim survives and they are injured, they can't immediately go back to work, school, or their normal lives. They need to go to physical rehabilitation which causes strain on everyone involved. Along with this, there are mental disorders that develop after the crash, one of which is depression. According to the ... | Evidence | Effective |
e0cc245e11dc | 20897B41AFB8 | Aside from the mental, physical, and financial sides of the argument there is also the legal side of it. Many states are starting to realize the dangers of distracted driving and are prohibiting it, and if anyone is caught they will either be fined or sentenced to serve in jail for a short time. | Claim | Effective |
4d47590043fe | 20897B41AFB8 | One example of a state that has made using a mobile device while behind the wheel of a vehicle is Georgia. The hands-free law states that "A driver cannot have a phone in their hand or use any part of their body to support their phone...A driver may not write, send or read any text messages, e-mails, social media or in... | Evidence | Effective |
c086180b20e5 | 20897B41AFB8 | The use of a mobile device should not be allowed while driving a vehicle. Some states are moving to make it illegal. The accidents cause high financial damage which supports the reasoning of the states to make it illegal. The many deaths, physical injuries and emotional strain that if inficts far outweighs any possible... | Concluding Statement | Effective |
70d6e4610f05 | 20C01368FC3E | Summer break is a time for everyone to decompress and relax after a long school year. Projects over break are stressful, especially teacher-designed ones. Breaks should be spent having fun and spending time with family/friends. Students work their butts of enough during the year and shouldnt have to do that over summer... | Lead | Effective |
690c9b7d12e8 | 20C01368FC3E | Summer projects should be student-designed | Position | Adequate |
10c5d3d02855 | 20C01368FC3E | it'll give students a chance to make the project chill, | Claim | Effective |
0ab25d33e706 | 20C01368FC3E | it will allow more independence for the students, | Claim | Effective |
bfa21debc1cf | 20C01368FC3E | it will have a better chance of making the students summer adventurous. | Claim | Effective |
3e844a0bee7e | 20C01368FC3E | The one thing students ask of the most would be a laid back summer. Because of all the stress they endure during the year, students want a bit of time to reflect and relax. If students make their own projects they could make it very simple. Most may think of that as taking a shortcut through life, but in reality they d... | Evidence | Effective |
061d9642e529 | 20C01368FC3E | One key factor for students is a sense of independence. Students are growing older and majority of them want to do tasks on their own. Doing their own projects would give them that freedom. | Claim | Effective |
5359e5f732de | 20C01368FC3E | The project could also be a way for them to boost their confidence in what they are capable of doing. It would be a great way for them to see how being independent with certain things is like. Student-designed projects may be a way for students to teach themselves responsibility. It would give them a greater aspect of ... | Evidence | Effective |
c60681df89dd | 20C01368FC3E | Most students enjoy exploring over summer; and what better way to do it than through a project. Student-designed projects would allow students to create it however they want. Even if it's a group project or even one where they'd need to actually go somewhere. Teachers wouldn't make it all that interesting, they'd just ... | Evidence | Adequate |
36f6b8bbfd91 | 20C01368FC3E | Overall people may think teacher-designed projects are better because of teachers "knowing what they are doing", | Counterclaim | Adequate |
1ca6ae613c0a | 20C01368FC3E | but that is not always true. It is good to let students take over sometimes. It is also a great way for teachers to see the potential for their students. | Rebuttal | Adequate |
e60f15293de6 | 20C01368FC3E | Student- designed projects can show one's creativity and imagination. Teachers don't always get to see that side of students during the year. | Evidence | Effective |
f7a5e689fa6d | 20C01368FC3E | To conclude it all students should be able to design their own projects to attain their independence, add some adventure to their break, and gain a relaxing summer break. | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
a165afa5eb16 | 20D57DEC3EF5 | I think using a Facial Action Coding Systemin the classroom to identify the emotions of students is not okay, | Position | Adequate |
59d5d85646d1 | 20D57DEC3EF5 | Why? becuase some people want to express themselves of their feelings that has been done by others. But not such that. In fact, we humans perform this same impressive "calculation" everday. For instance you can probably tell if a friend is feeling simply emotion by looking at thair face. But for some people painting po... | Evidence | Ineffective |
fe38c88f6925 | 20D57DEC3EF5 | In conclusion, I think classrooms shouldn't use Facial Action Coding System to identify the expression of students an how they are feeling. But some people have hidden talents that they use to express themselves or their emotions. Also not many people icluding students express themselves through painting some use danci... | Concluding Statement | Ineffective |
7ce471a8cd33 | 20D81D1BE1A6 | Yes, the use of Facial Action Codying Stystem would be very useful for students in the classroom. | Position | Effective |
377557a55679 | 20D81D1BE1A6 | Not only can this technology detect when a student is confused or bored, but it can change the lesson to grab the students' attention again, or to explain it in an another way. | Claim | Effective |
e3e829595bc4 | 20D81D1BE1A6 | Along with this, this technology could introduce a lot more job intrest, hobby intrest, or just pure intrest among students. | Claim | Effective |
0b783745a00f | 20D81D1BE1A6 | Lastly, this technology would be beneficial to students because it would give us a reason to be taught about the science of emotion, we could learn and go more into depth about our basic human body and mind and how easy emotions can show.
| Claim | Effective |
7d8dcbe6751e | 20D81D1BE1A6 | This technology can change lessons for kids who aren't understanding, or are just completley bored of the material being shown. | Claim | Effective |
1cbba736bc56 | 20D81D1BE1A6 | This can greatly change a students grades from bad to good, along with make them look forward to coming to your class or school in general. From paragraph 6 the author stated, "A classroom computer could recongnize when a student is becoming confused or bored." Ending the conversation with, "Then it could modify the le... | Evidence | Effective |
d4e58ec7115c | 20D81D1BE1A6 | Secondly, the FACS can show students a different range of technology that is fairly new | Evidence | Effective |
f5cd4212856d | 20D81D1BE1A6 | It could show some kids something they may be passionate for but never knew of, it could be a possible job intrest, a new hobby interest, anything at all. | Claim | Effective |
93fbfa5126af | 20D81D1BE1A6 | The people using this technology are doing so many things, "The process begins when the computer constructs a 3-D computer model of the face;" So they're not only using 3-D software but also, "Using video imagery, the new emotion-recongnition software tracks these facial movements." The people who are specializing in d... | Evidence | Effective |
91e358af81a9 | 20D81D1BE1A6 | Lastly, having this technology in our school would give us a reason to talk about the basic science of emotion. | Claim | Effective |
219f71d2b1eb | 20D81D1BE1A6 | We can learn about our human bodies and why emotion is displayed so easily, and how it's displayed as well. "According to the Facial Feedback Theory of Emotion, moving your facial muscles not only expresses emotions, but also may even help produce them." Our faces can move in multiple ways depending on the emotion we f... | Evidence | Effective |
dad03cbc1630 | 20D81D1BE1A6 | Finally, either it be the fact that a lesson can be changed based off of if a student is bored or confused. Or that having this technology can show students a wider range of possible job choices, hobby choices, or just learning more about something out of pure intrest. Or lastly, because having this technology around u... | Concluding Statement | Effective |
f2f0ce6fc24f | 20E41EFD4FB8 | The author does a very good job of proving his point about the challanges of exploring Venus. He makes a few valid points and is very descriptive. I think he did a good job overall explaning his point. | Position | Adequate |
4ebed28eef27 | 20E41EFD4FB8 | He starts off by talking about how Venus is a very similar planet to ours | Claim | Ineffective |
230a4fd7d572 | 20E41EFD4FB8 | He says hat the two planets are so similar that people call Venus the "sister planet to Earth". He also makes the point that Venus may have held life at some point. He states that "Long ago, Venus was probably covered largely with oceans and could have supported various forms of life, just like Earth". | Evidence | Adequate |
19d73c2df3ca | 20E41EFD4FB8 | His next topic was about how we have already sent space crafts over to Venus. All of them, however, were unmanned | Claim | Adequate |
0a31bfc56e92 | 20E41EFD4FB8 | They were all unmanned because the pressure and heat of the planet would instantly kill the occupants inside the ship. Even without anyone in the ships, the spaceships were still crushed by the pressure of the planet. He states that "no spacecraft survived the landing for more than a few hours". He then goes on to say ... | Evidence | Adequate |
ae478f2a7fb7 | 20E41EFD4FB8 | He goes on to talk about how NASA has been trying to come up with ideas on how to inhabit the planet with life. they came up with a few good ideas but the one that stood out to him the most was a bit interesting | Claim | Adequate |
b72a1446558d | 20E41EFD4FB8 | He says that NASA wanted to try and get a blimp like spaceshi to float 30 miles above Venus' surface. at ths spot it isnt too hot or too dangerous and is almost perfect for life. the heat, however, would still be a whopping 170 degrees fahrenheit and we would be stuck in a thick cloud in CO2. He also states that even i... | Evidence | Adequate |
453315484a94 | 20E41EFD4FB8 | Overall he made a lot of valid points. I think that he made his point very clear and proved that attempting to explore Venus would be a challange. With its harsh conditions and unbearable heat, there would be no fun in exploring the planet. | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
0db0527c1b72 | 20F9EE3FEC1F | Authors that present a well-developed, convincing argument can have a large influence on their reader's thoughts. In the passage, "The Challenge of Exploring Venus," the author explains the different reasons as to why Earth, as a whole, should further study the planet of Venus, alotting all its difficulties. | Lead | Effective |
9585de902225 | 20F9EE3FEC1F | While the kinks of being able to go to Venus are still being worked out, this author gives insight as to why this barren planet is still important. | Position | Effective |
5fe27ee65267 | 20F9EE3FEC1F | The first idea the author had was related to the atmosphere of Venus | Claim | Adequate |
92252c56a61f | 20F9EE3FEC1F | "A thick atmosphere of almost 97 percent carbon dioxide blankets Venus. Even more challenging are the coulds of higly corrosive sufuric acid in Venus's atmosphere." In Paragraph 3, the author does not give a higly convincing argument. Humans need oxygen to live, so how is it expected for them to survive on a planet tha... | Evidence | Effective |
5c95b5228cd3 | 20F9EE3FEC1F | The next problem that Earth faces in studying Venus is that temperatures on this planet exceed 800 degrees Fahrenheit, a temperature found nowhere on Earth | Claim | Effective |
6423711c9a94 | 20F9EE3FEC1F | This temperature is beyond the maximun limit that human can edure, which leaves behind the compelling factor of wanting to study more of this sister planet. The author also states, ". . . and the atmospheric pressure is 9 times greater than what we experience on our own planet. These conditions are far more extreme tha... | Evidence | Effective |
bd9e8168aba7 | 20F9EE3FEC1F | The author uses an idea proposed by NASA for humans to study Venus | Claim | Effective |
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