Claim-Students should learn in a blended learning environment.

1. Rationales

1.1. Students need to be prepared to enter an extremely high tech world after they leave school.

1.2. Students today communicate more effectively through many different modes of technology

1.3. Many classrooms don't have enough textbooks in paper form to allow students to take them from the classroom. Being online would allow students to readily access materials and work at their own pace outside the classroom.

2. Objections

2.1. Students need to learn how to work together with people in a face to face environment. Interpersonal social skills in critical for students to succeed in their lives post school.

2.2. Students need to work to hit deadlines and working at their own pace will not help them achieve that.

2.3. Teachers jobs will be replaced by blended learning environments.

3. Rebuttals

3.1. Many colleges and post secondary institutions require some form of online learning.

3.2. Many students will be in job fields that do not exist yet because of the growth of technology.

3.3. Teachers can have more opportunities to individualize instruction and differentiate for diverse learners in their classroom.