Some people believe that children should be banned from using their phones during the school day. Others believe that children should be allowed to use their phones.
Discuss both these views and give your own opinion.
It is argued that whether schools should forbid children from using their phones during the school day. While I understand the reasons why many advocate this idea, it is my firm belief that phones are allowed to be used in classrooms as they have currently become an effective class equipment.
It is an undeniable fact that the phone is a great distraction which can adversely affect children's academic performance in class, and therefore should be banned. Phones are, in fact, highly addictive as they offer vast resources of entertaining content with relentless notifications from numerous mobile apps. In my class, for instance, in the past, despite being mature teenagers, many of my classmates could not resist from the temptation of their phones, frequently using them to watch films and surf social medias in class. Classes were also often interrupted by the annoying sound of phone ringing and phone notifications. As a consequence, the average scores in tests went down sinificantly, which subsequently made my head teacher enact a "no phone" policy in class. And right after this decision, the academic performance of students in my class has been improved. The story of my class has indicated how the appearance of phones in classes can have negative effect on students' grades.
Nevertheless, phones have recently been developed to an effective educational aid in classes. Thanks to technological advances, many mobile apps and online platforms designed for phones, provide many intellectually stimulating activities, which improve the teaching quality. A salient example is Kahoot, an increasingly popular educational app in many countries, offers an innovative method to carry out quizzes in classrooms. The teacher can easily upload multiple choice questions on the platform, and students then can participate by using the phones to choose correct answers. When students show a strong preferenct for Kahoot due to its colorful display of tests with vivid sounds, teachers can greatly benefit from its detailed analysis about the class performance. It is clear that there are many interesting educational apps having the involvement of phones, so phones should not be banned.
In conclusion, while the phone can create great distraction for students, I strongly believe its function of an eductional aid can outweigh its drawback. And schools should teach children how to use phones effectively rather than banning them.
- Around the world many adults are working from home and more children are beginning to study from home because technology has become cheaper and more accessible Do you think this is a positive or negative development 89
- Some people say that music is a good way of bringing people of different cultures and ages together To what extend do you agree or disagree with this opinion 83
- Studies suggest that many teenagers these days prefer socialising online to meeting one another in person Why do you think this is the case What measures could be taken to encourage teenagers to spend more time meeting one another in person 78
- Studying with a group of students in a classroom is more beneficial than learning online at home To what extent do you agree or disagree 84
- Computers are often argued to be the most important invention of the last hundred years To what extent do you agree or disagree with this statement 84
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 140, Rule ID: MANY_NN[1]
Message: Possible agreement error. The noun advocate seems to be countable; consider using: 'many advocates'.
Suggestion: many advocates
...day. While I understand the reasons why many advocate this idea, it is my firm belief that ph...
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Line 1, column 265, Rule ID: A_UNCOUNTABLE[5]
Message: Uncountable nouns are usually not used with an indefinite article. Use simply 'effective class equipment'.
Suggestion: effective class equipment
...lassrooms as they have currently become an effective class equipment. It is an undeniable fact that the pho...
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Message: Use 'an' instead of 'a' if the following word starts with a vowel sound, e.g. 'an article', 'an hour'
Suggestion: an
...subsequently made my head teacher enact a 'no phone' policy in class. A...
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Line 3, column 564, Rule ID: AFFORD_VB[1]
Message: This verb is used with the infinitive: 'to correct'
Suggestion: to correct
...rticipate by using the phones to choose correct answers. When students show a strong pr...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, if, nevertheless, so, then, therefore, while, for instance, in conclusion, in fact
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 16.0 13.1623246493 122% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 7.85571142285 153% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 10.4138276553 67% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 7.30460921844 110% => OK
Pronoun: 28.0 24.0651302605 116% => OK
Preposition: 49.0 41.998997996 117% => OK
Nominalization: 12.0 8.3376753507 144% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2066.0 1615.20841683 128% => OK
No of words: 382.0 315.596192385 121% => OK
Chars per words: 5.40837696335 5.12529762239 106% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.42095241839 4.20363070211 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.91641835333 2.80592935109 104% => OK
Unique words: 224.0 176.041082164 127% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.586387434555 0.561755894193 104% => OK
syllable_count: 632.7 506.74238477 125% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.60771543086 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 5.43587174349 92% => OK
Article: 6.0 2.52805611222 237% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 4.0 2.10420841683 190% => OK
Conjunction: 4.0 0.809619238477 494% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 5.0 4.76152304609 105% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 16.0721442886 106% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 20.2975951904 108% => OK
Sentence length SD: 37.3755836885 49.4020404114 76% => OK
Chars per sentence: 121.529411765 106.682146367 114% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.4705882353 20.7667163134 108% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.17647058824 7.06120827912 73% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 5.01903807615 80% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 8.67935871743 127% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 3.9879759519 125% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 3.4128256513 29% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.261685840867 0.244688304435 107% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0987727880858 0.084324248473 117% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.109885940707 0.0667982634062 165% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.2006959637 0.151304729494 133% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0964214034766 0.056905535591 169% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.3 13.0946893788 117% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 40.69 50.2224549098 81% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.1 11.3001002004 116% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.39 12.4159519038 116% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.81 8.58950901804 114% => OK
difficult_words: 123.0 78.4519038076 157% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 9.78957915832 112% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 10.1190380762 107% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 10.7795591182 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 84.2696629213 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.5 Out of 9
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.