Question

We should give up the useless fight with our students and buy phones for them instead. Some kinds of screen time work well in school. Research, for example, is sometimes done more effectively online rather than tracking down print sources in a library. Screens also help us connect with people in other locations, creating new digital pen pals. Screens can also be integrated into the classroom to enhance learning instead of distracting from it.

Which statement is an example of bias?

“We should give up the useless fight with our students and buy phones for them instead.”
“Research, for example, is sometimes done more effectively online rather than tracking down print sources in a library.”
“Screens also help us connect with people in other locations, creating new digital pen pals.”
“Screens can also be integrated into the classroom to enhance learning instead of distracting from it.

Answer 1

The first statement: “We should give up the useless fight with our students and buy phones for them instead.”

Why: it uses loaded, evaluative language (“useless fight”) and makes a sweeping prescriptive claim without acknowledging counterarguments or nuance, which indicates bias. The other sentences make hedged or descriptive claims about benefits of screens and are less overtly biased.