In the past, lectures were the traditional method of teaching large numbers of students in a classroom. Nowadays new technology is increasingly being used to teach students.
What are the advantages and disadvantages of this new approach in teaching?
Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own experience or knowledge.
Write at least 250 words.
Today, technology has instigated a litany of furtherance in many fields, including education. While modern advances aid teaching significantly, innovative permutations, generally, pose latent threats, which raise parents’ concern over their children’s studies. Regardless of those associated risks, I believe that modern equipment’s benefits overshadow its drawbacks.
One of the most conspicuous merits that technology provides is that it can convey lessons through more vivid pictorials and interactive designations that can pique students’ interests. To illustrate, Powerpoint, an application specializing in enlivening all the rigid contents in the textbooks for students, has received positive responses from customers as it helps grasp their subjects’ attention. Moreover, pupils can delve more profoundly into their planned syllabus: if they fail to comprehend the lessons at school, they can clarify them at home through Google or contacting online with their professors without having to make an appointment in advance like in the past. In addition, this bonus helps students interact with their teachers more frequently, catalyzing more informal and intimate conversations and bridging the gap of preceptor- listener.
However, nothing is impeccable; neither is this new approach. On account of its side effects, students’ ability to read is negatively affected since they become more engaged in digitized platforms. A study in Cambridge shows that the number of people reading books underwent a slash, which later eventuated in their academic level not being on par with the previous generations’. Furthermore, youngsters may get access to objectionable and unhealthy data without anyone’s supervision- this can wreak havoc in their perceptions and escalate the urge to catch up with toxic trends on the Internet. Yet, adults can terminate this phenomenon as long as they keep their students/ children carefully under their tutelage.
To conclude, the new methods of teaching benefit teachers as students get more proactive in their learning process in case it is utilized right. However, if we let it involve too deep in our life, some lurking threats will start to menace us and lead to untoward consequences.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
furthermore, however, if, may, moreover, so, while, in addition
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 6.0 13.1623246493 46% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 7.85571142285 102% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 10.4138276553 67% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 7.30460921844 96% => OK
Pronoun: 35.0 24.0651302605 145% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 49.0 41.998997996 117% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 8.3376753507 84% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1917.0 1615.20841683 119% => OK
No of words: 333.0 315.596192385 106% => OK
Chars per words: 5.75675675676 5.12529762239 112% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.27180144563 4.20363070211 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.10472752858 2.80592935109 111% => OK
Unique words: 227.0 176.041082164 129% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.681681681682 0.561755894193 121% => OK
syllable_count: 572.4 506.74238477 113% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.60771543086 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 5.43587174349 55% => OK
Article: 3.0 2.52805611222 119% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.10420841683 95% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.76152304609 84% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 16.0721442886 87% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 20.2975951904 113% => OK
Sentence length SD: 54.6840647609 49.4020404114 111% => OK
Chars per sentence: 136.928571429 106.682146367 128% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.7857142857 20.7667163134 115% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.5 7.06120827912 64% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 8.67935871743 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 3.9879759519 100% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 3.4128256513 59% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.143832506062 0.244688304435 59% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0520817258125 0.084324248473 62% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0561784328941 0.0667982634062 84% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0870211923892 0.151304729494 58% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0354581244829 0.056905535591 62% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 17.6 13.0946893788 134% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 39.67 50.2224549098 79% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.44779559118 150% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.4 11.3001002004 119% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 16.42 12.4159519038 132% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 10.75 8.58950901804 125% => OK
difficult_words: 126.0 78.4519038076 161% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.0 9.78957915832 133% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 10.1190380762 111% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 10.7795591182 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 89.8876404494 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 8.0 Out of 9
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