Question

in this section, you’ll assess the effectiveness of a satirical text. your article was a success; people loved reading it! a month later, you notice that a fellow subscriber to the newsletter has written a follow - up satirical article in response to your article. heres an excerpt from the article: \boomers. karens. debbie downers. we all know them. we all despise them. these are the ones whose life’s calling is to rid education of the plague known as technology. they insist on a return to \the good old days,\ where math is calculated by abacus, and you have to know how to calculate by hand a² + b² = c² because \you won’t always have a calculator.\ this is the generation that champions mindlessly staring at textbooks from 1965 while copying word - for - word on thousands of sheets of loose - leaf paper that will most likely end up in the cavernous depths of a backpack next to a moldy peanut butter sandwich while a child insists, i turned it in. you must have lost it. after reading this part of the article, you think about the author’s primary purpose. which of the following is the correct purpose? to prove that copying notes by hand is the most effective way to learn to demonstrate the importance of calculators in math courses to criticize those who believe that technology has no place in education to draw attention to the problem of cell phones in an educational setting

Explanation:

The text satirizes those who oppose technology in education, like "Boomers" etc. who want to return to old - fashioned methods. It's not about the effectiveness of hand - copying notes, importance of calculators, or cell phones in education.

Answer:

To criticize those who believe that technology has no place in education