Affirmative team scriptStudents should be allowed to use cellular phone in classThe 1st Affirmative Constructive SpeechThank you, Ladies. Today we are debating the resolution, “Students should be allowed to use cellular phones in class. We on the affirmative team strongly support this resolution. We have three reasons: educational purpose, prevention of emergency crisis, and the violation of privacy.Our first point is educational purpose. Smartphones are one of the great sources for students to take notes, record lectures, even share them with others for study purposes. In Valk, Rashid, and Elder's journal 2010, Cellphones enhance learner-centred learning by enabling students to access to information. (Sharples et al., 2007, p. 223). .Through this, learners take a greater responsibility for the learning process instead of being passively fed information. (Brown, 2003, p. 2).(Valk, J, H., Rashild, A, T., and Elder, L., (2010), The International Review of Research in Open and Distance Lerrmann, S., Stovenour, D., et al., (2011). Teaching Screenagers)Their last point was “unethical uses.” They said that cellphones can be used for unlawful act. But this is not relevant due toKohlberg’s theory of moral development. It postulates that ethical decision-making and behavior is influenced by the level of moral development of the individual and the intention engaged in one’s characteristic. (Kohlberg1969)(Philmore, A., Dwayne, D., Cheryl, C., et al., (2009). Journal of Academic Ethics, 7)Well, I have refuted their three points. Now let me support my partner’s points.Our first point was “educational purposes.” My partner showed that cellphones are helpful for the students' academic purpose and that they contain various functions. The negative team said that this is not always true because cellphones have a lot of entertainment features and students send messages.Although, some parents and teachers complain that text messaging is not helpful for the students, the research, held . Report: Mobile - Americans and Their Cell Phones.)We should not forget to do a post mortem so it won't happen again. Everything is always "urgent." As Epictetus, the Greek Stoic philosopher, would say, "No thing great is created suddenly. And it's too late to save the situation when you get to the bottom; what lasts to the end is the smallest part, but the worst.”(Gamonnet, F,. (2004). Dealing with Unforeseen Events and Emergencies.)5) The negative team must have agreed because they had no answer to that point at all.Our third point was “violation of privacy.” We explained that students have the right to privacy over their belongings. The negative team said that this was not true since they should follow certain rules regulated in school. However, schools should also follow the set of rules stated by the government.The Supreme Court has ruled that there is a limited constitutional right of privacy based on a number of provisions in the Bill of Rights and subsequent amendments. Seizurn others.Mobile phones themselves are not cause unethical problem. Besides the way to solve this problem is to educate students about proper way to use the tools. However, they never gave any reason or support about this./ they never answered our refutation.Let us look now at our points. Our main points were “educational purpose”, “Prevention of emergency crisis”, and “the violation of privacy.”Our first point was “Educational purpose.” We said cellphone are helpful for students’ academic purpose. They responded thatIt has a lot of entertainment featuresIt has more disadvantage of using cell phone in class rather than advantage.There are more educational tools other than mobile phone.But this is not significant. Since my partner explained thatTexting could be useful for phonemic awareness.Digital resource makes us participate in learning actively rather than being told in class. However, negative team has never showed why it’s not true or important.Mobile can be used for educational toefinitions.uslegal.com/i/invasion-of-privacy/Diana, G., James, L., Oblinger, L,. (2005). 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