Transitioning: The Case For Banning Laptops In The Classroom

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“The Case for Banning Laptops in the Classroom” is a better source than “Transitioning to a More Digitally Focused Course Experience” because, even though “ The Case” is less reliable and has less objective, it is still more credible, up to date, and has better scope of coverage. As far as the objectives goes both source really don’t have much objectives in them but, they do have some. In “ The Case” It shows advertising throughout the article. In “Transitioning” there are no advertising throughout the article. Both actical do not contain a list of references or and sources. There are no links in either of the articles. “ Transitioning” is bias because they only show links to there own website links on the sides of the article. “Transitioning”

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