Mobile phones and smart devices should be restricted and that young people should not be allowed to have them. Only people of a certain age should have permission to own them. What are the advantages and disadvantages of this proposal? What is your opinion?

smart
devices
are being increasingly used more in
every day
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life. There are some
people
who argue that only
people
of a certain age should be able to purchase and own them. In
this
essay, I will try to discuss the advantages and disadvantages of
this
opinion and give my own view on it. Smart
devices
can provide a
technlogical
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technological
and educational advantage. By using them
im
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in
school situations, they can improve
students
´ productivity.
By increasing
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the sources of
information
students
can
use
,
it
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helps them
completing
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tasks better
while
being more complete in their answers.
Thus
leading to increasing levels of
productivtiy
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productivity
and higher grades. The fact that smart
devices
use
the internet has another distinct advantage,
students
get the most
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information
. Schoolbooks, on the one hand practical for teachers,
sometimes
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do not
adress
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address
themes anymore that are relevant for
students
in
this
day and age. The advantages of these
devices
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, carry some potential downsides The
use
of technological
devices
can have
its
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negative effects.
Students
can become more lazy by using them.
For example
, in the past,
students
had to go to the library and search books for
information
on subjects they needed.
This
way, they
also
stumbled upon other
information
they might not
even
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thought about before.
Thus
this
way of gathering
information
could get lost by using technology.
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there could be overreliance on sources over the internet which may be incorrect. A lot of
students
use
wikipedia
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, a website which serves as an encyclopedia,
however
,
this
website can be edited by anyone. If
people
have malice in mind, they could mislead
people
and so the
students
as well who
use
the website for their sources. In
conclusion
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I think
technlogical
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technological
devices
can have many
postive
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positive
effects by increasing
the
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productivity and offering
up to date
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information
to
students
. These benefits do in my opinion outweigh the side effects, which include the possibility of possible false
information
and the increased risk that
students
will not go to the library as often as they did in the past.
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