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?
Technological advancements have impacted the education sector. The affordability of devices like laptops and tablets have led schools to capitalize on the computer-savvy trend by distributing them as learning devices to replace traditional books and printed materials. There are several advantages and disadvantages associated with this technological shift, which will be elaborated upon in the following paragraphs.
One of the most important advantages of going green is saving paper, which helps protect the environment to a great degree. Children learn to search for relevant information on the internet or go through e-books to complete assignments, thereby obviating the need for books. They also learn to type faster, which is a universal skill required in majority of the jobs. The unprecedented Coronavirus pandemic has showed us the importance of laptops for learning as most of the teaching has moved to online classes.
On the flip side, the value of traditional education methods with books cannot be replaced. If laptop use is encouraged from a young age, children do not develop the ability to write on paper and most of them will have illegible handwritings. Developing children strain their eyes permanently if they have to work on a computer all day, both in school and the house. This is one of the reasons that many children wear glasses nowadays. Integrity of examinations will be compromised since children can figure out how to store information on the laptop and copy from it. More importantly, every school cannot afford laptops, which leads to differing teaching methods, and consequently, differing ways in which children reproduce the information that they have learnt.
In conclusion, the distribution of computer-based devices by schools come with a host of advantages and disadvantages. Advantages include saving paper, the ability to search for information, type faster and learn remotely. The disadvantages are the effects on the eyes, loss of examination integrity and differing teaching methods among schools. It has been seen that schools use both these modes to augment children’s educational experience, rather than using one over the other.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, consequently, if, so, in conclusion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 13.1623246493 76% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 7.85571142285 89% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 10.4138276553 106% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 7.30460921844 110% => OK
Pronoun: 15.0 24.0651302605 62% => OK
Preposition: 52.0 41.998997996 124% => OK
Nominalization: 12.0 8.3376753507 144% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1849.0 1615.20841683 114% => OK
No of words: 338.0 315.596192385 107% => OK
Chars per words: 5.47041420118 5.12529762239 107% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.28774723029 4.20363070211 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.13575553598 2.80592935109 112% => OK
Unique words: 191.0 176.041082164 108% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.565088757396 0.561755894193 101% => OK
syllable_count: 577.8 506.74238477 114% => 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: 6.0 2.52805611222 237% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 1.0 2.10420841683 48% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 0.809619238477 124% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.76152304609 42% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 16.0721442886 106% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 20.2975951904 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 37.2893854856 49.4020404114 75% => OK
Chars per sentence: 108.764705882 106.682146367 102% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.8823529412 20.7667163134 96% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.70588235294 7.06120827912 38% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
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: 5.0 3.4128256513 147% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.224077739563 0.244688304435 92% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0650757172611 0.084324248473 77% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0602947581553 0.0667982634062 90% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.144680315649 0.151304729494 96% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0645659487736 0.056905535591 113% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.3 13.0946893788 109% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 43.73 50.2224549098 87% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.44779559118 150% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 11.3001002004 105% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.45 12.4159519038 116% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.78 8.58950901804 102% => OK
difficult_words: 90.0 78.4519038076 115% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.0 9.78957915832 133% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.1190380762 95% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 10.7795591182 111% => 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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