Well if the point is to win this debate I feel like we are not focusing on what the other team will say. I believe (and feel to tell me your opinion) that we need to have some things to counter act them.

Yeah i would have to agree with the phrasing is everything, and it helps to have back up information such as surveys.

The reason i chose this article is because the author talks about how technology such as iPads and Kindles can lower a person's ability to read greatly. In the article it states "The poll of 34,910 young people aged between eight and 16 across the UK found that those who read printed texts were almost twice as likely to have above-average reading skills as those who read on screens every day.". Which is a good example to use when you think about if your ability to read lowers, so does your ability to independently learn, your use of proper grammar, your ability to spell, and not to forget your power of creative thinking. Without all these literacy skill our future world will slowly crumb, and we will stop progressing do to lack of these skills. Also in this article, it states that according to The National Literacy Trust survey, " 52 per cent of children preferred to read on an electronic device - including e-readers, computers and smartphones - while only 32 per cent said they would rather read a physical book." This can be quite the dilemma, because with technology always progressing and kids growing up in this technological age will grow more fond of it. Personally I have seen the affect of technology on our future generations, because I work with kids year round and i have notice their abilities grow less and less over the years. I have many 8 year old kids who have problems with literacy skills such as not knowing which way to put letters. So they will write backwards letters, and yet the can fully use a smart phone way better then I can. They can also tell me everything to the last detail about the game Minecraft, and yet many of them have trouble doing simple equations and spelling simple words such as birthday.