Good morning fellow students and teachers, today I’m going to be convincing you that you should be able to listen to MP3 players in class. So how many of us love to listen to music? It’s apart of everyone’s life, especially now with the convenience of all these iPods and phones that play music. So I’m sure that already most of you students are already agreeing with me, but for those who aren’t, and teachers, listen to the rest of my speech and I’m sure ill be able to change your perspective.
So honestly, how many of us always enjoy school? Yeah I know, it can get boring, so if we were allowed to listen to music in class, how much more enjoyable would it be? We would look forward to each class, look forward waking up and going to school. Well still not convinced, I’ll move on to my next point.
How many of us often get distracted in class, most of us yeah? If it’s someone talking, someone dropping something, noises outside, it happens to all of us. Also there would be less talking because people are trying to listen to there music. So fewer distractions equal to maxim learning time and productivity. Right now if someone banged on the door over there I guarantee 99% of you will look, but if you were listening to music, you wouldn’t of would you? Some people think that you will be more distracted but I think my point above proves that wrong.
Now my previous arguments have all been debatable, now time for some facts, research shows that listening to music in class increase memory, concentration and lots of other benefits, but don’t take my word for it, the BBC posed online this article “A research team from the Stanford University School of Medicine has showed that music engages the areas of the brain involved with paying attention, making predictions and updating the event in memory.“ The links here if you want to have a further read. http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/studentlife/debate/2009/11_music.shtml
So in conclusion, listening