Personal electronic devices in the classroom should be allowed

You clearly did not understand my argument and have even admitted that you don't. So why you would refute arguments that you didn't understand is beyond me. You attacked your own distorted understanding of my arguments and are refuting things that I never claimed. You are attacking a straw man. You misrepresented and misunderstood everything, including your own argument. The first thing you did wrong was actually in the very beginning; you wanted to argue the point that personal electronic devices in the classroom should be allowed. There is a huge distinction between personal electronic devices and electronic devices given to you by the school to use. To reiterate the point I made above, your first two contentions gave evidence to the argument of quality of education increasing with electronic devices given to students by the school. Both contentions used evidence in cases where electronic devices were administered by the school. Again both contention used evidence in cases where electronic devices were given to students by the school. Contention #1 asserts that e-books are better than textbooks. But they don't tie personal electronic devices. If a school decides to use the concept of e-books as a means to improve the quality of education; then they must provide an electronic device as a standard for all students. Contention #2 cites studies in which electronic devices were given to students. Personal Electronic Devices and Electronic Devices assigned by the school are completely different from each other. This is the failure of your argument, you do not prove anything for personal electronic devices but for the argument of electronic devices provided by the school. I hope you understand this by now, because I'm not going to repeat myself. Contention #3 is simply a nonsense argument. Personal electronic devices can help in education outside the classroom, in which communication over long distances is essential for collaboration. But inside the classroom is a whole another story. Where is the logic that asserts that personal electronic devices help promote education(through communication) between two people in the same CLASSROOM. People in the same classroom can communicate with each other without the usage of Personal Electronic Devices. I assert that this argument is true OUTSIDE the classroom but not inside the classroom. Just to make sure, I want to say it again. What you want to argue and the evidence you use aren't complementary. You do not even make one argument for PERSONAL electronic devices helping education INSIDE the classroom. Last point, you state that since I didn't make any contentions I automatically lose the debate. I did didn't I? The argument of the non maturation of the frontal lobes is a perfectly adequate argument. You said that by bad choices I mean by cheating. This is not true, I meant by procrastination. Not paying attention in class. Texting your friend. Playing games on your personal electronic device. etc. .. The burden of proof is on YOU; if your argument is defeated, then I win. Even though I did make a perfectly adequate contention, I DON'T have to make one. You basically argued for the wrong thing and therefore it is automatically void. You have lost this debate. At the very least, I hope you understood why you lost this debate.