An increasing number of schools provide tablets and laptop computers for students to use in school, replacing books and other printed materials like exams and assignments.What are the advantages and disadvantages of this trend?

The world is moving towards the modern technology day by day. Modern technology has occupied every bit of people lives, and also technological inventions appear in different forms and areas,especially schools. Therefore, some school have begun supplying students with computers, tablets and laptops that they can use instead of books and other printed materials. However, technology offers several positive and negative opportunities.

First of all, there are several advantages of this trends.One major benefit of providing tablets and computers to students is that help students to learn and reach more information faster, because these types of technological vehicles include hundreds of textbooks that can be updated instantly get new edition and information. Therefore, they can reduce the time students take to reach a learning. Computers and tablets can also reduce the amount of print for handouts and assisgments. In other words, cutting trees and using harmfull substances, such as toner and ink, used for printed materials are avoided. By this way, they can also help to save the environment and money.

On the other hand, there are many disadvantages of using technological tools. The first and most important aspect is technological devices have negative effects on human healths. For example, students who use laptop and tablets can suffer from headache, blurred vision and dry eyes. Secondly, digital technology is causing too much distracted for classroom use, because students generally focus on social media, emails and games. Furthermore, compaired with tablets and computers, textbooks can usually be repaired with basic materials, and also, unlike tablets and computers, textbooks are not share personal informations.

In conclusion, as technology develops, it always brings with pros and cons. Therefore, schools must take care to monitor students that are using the technological inventions during the learning times.

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Average: 7.8 (1 vote)
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, furthermore, however, if, second, secondly, so, therefore, as to, for example, in conclusion, such as, first of all, in other words, on the other hand

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 13.1623246493 84% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 7.85571142285 102% => OK
Conjunction : 21.0 10.4138276553 202% => Less conjunction wanted
Relative clauses : 5.0 7.30460921844 68% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 11.0 24.0651302605 46% => OK
Preposition: 28.0 41.998997996 67% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 8.3376753507 48% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1660.0 1615.20841683 103% => OK
No of words: 292.0 315.596192385 93% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.68493150685 5.12529762239 111% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.13376432452 4.20363070211 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.91049150156 2.80592935109 104% => OK
Unique words: 174.0 176.041082164 99% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.595890410959 0.561755894193 106% => OK
syllable_count: 507.6 506.74238477 100% => 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: 2.0 2.52805611222 79% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.10420841683 143% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 0.809619238477 247% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 4.0 4.76152304609 84% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 16.0721442886 100% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 20.2975951904 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 65.1903163342 49.4020404114 132% => OK
Chars per sentence: 103.75 106.682146367 97% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.25 20.7667163134 88% => OK
Discourse Markers: 10.1875 7.06120827912 144% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 5.01903807615 80% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 8.67935871743 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 3.9879759519 125% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 3.4128256513 147% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.243391476143 0.244688304435 99% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.078974284785 0.084324248473 94% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0750722095298 0.0667982634062 112% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.141450207783 0.151304729494 93% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0424977444798 0.056905535591 75% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.4 13.0946893788 110% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 44.75 50.2224549098 89% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 11.3001002004 102% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 15.66 12.4159519038 126% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.13 8.58950901804 106% => OK
difficult_words: 85.0 78.4519038076 108% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 9.78957915832 123% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 10.1190380762 91% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 10.7795591182 111% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 78.6516853933 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.0 Out of 9
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