Computer and the internet are now becoming essential in many areas of life, especially in the acquisition of knowledge of young children. While some schools offer online courses which students mainly learn via the internet, other schools still stick with the conventional learning methods. In this essay, I will look at both sides of the argument.
On the one hand, some may argue that computer can help liven up teachers' lesson plans, which is a good thing for students, because they represent important concepts with demonstrative images and sounds. Multimedia facilities are good aids because not only they can provide an endless number of practical questions in a shorter time but also can learner's feedbacks and homework are responded and marked automatically and correctly. When this process is repetitive, the facts are learned and reinforced. Moreover, the internet comes in handy when an 12 cm in diameter computer disc can store a whole Encyclopedia Brittanica, which in printed volumes, can take up a shelf section. Because of that, students can look for any information they need just by a few clicks, without having to be presented at the library or in schools to ask for their teachers' opinions.
On the other hand, computer and the internet may be useful to elementary language learning or elementary mathematics, because they tend to solve simple problems only. For more complex ideas, the role of teacher is indispensable. While computers can recognize errors fast and easy, they cannot spot at what stages the student has made a mistake. Teachers are able to monitor student's grasp of concepts and be involved at the right time to help fixing the problem. Furthermore, school is a place where young children gather to be educated by their formal educators and learn from each other. If children are compelled sitting in front of the screen instead of being out there, learning and bouncing ideas with their friends, they may feel lost due to the lack of social skill in later life.
To conclude, in both ways of learning, there are also advantages and disadvantages with it. Personally, I think that it is better to let children learn via traditional methods, which involves interaction with friends and teachers, and computer could play a supportive role to boost children's knowledge acquisition speed.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 65, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'teachers'' or 'teacher's'?
Suggestion: teachers'; teacher's
...y argue that computer can help liven up teachers lesson plans, which is a good thing for...
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Line 5, column 444, Rule ID: ADVISE_VBG[5]
Message: The verb 'help' is used with infinitive: 'to fix' or 'fix'.
Suggestion: to fix; fix
...d be involved at the right time to help fixing the problem. Furthermore, school is a p...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, furthermore, if, look, may, moreover, so, still, while, i think, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 13.1623246493 129% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 14.0 7.85571142285 178% => OK
Conjunction : 17.0 10.4138276553 163% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 7.30460921844 137% => OK
Pronoun: 18.0 24.0651302605 75% => OK
Preposition: 51.0 41.998997996 121% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 8.3376753507 72% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1956.0 1615.20841683 121% => OK
No of words: 381.0 315.596192385 121% => OK
Chars per words: 5.13385826772 5.12529762239 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.41805628031 4.20363070211 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.74848645167 2.80592935109 98% => OK
Unique words: 226.0 176.041082164 128% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.593175853018 0.561755894193 106% => OK
syllable_count: 590.4 506.74238477 117% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.60771543086 93% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 5.43587174349 74% => OK
Article: 3.0 2.52805611222 119% => OK
Subordination: 7.0 2.10420841683 333% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 0.809619238477 124% => OK
Preposition: 7.0 4.76152304609 147% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 16.0721442886 100% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 20.2975951904 113% => OK
Sentence length SD: 54.6859999794 49.4020404114 111% => OK
Chars per sentence: 122.25 106.682146367 115% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.8125 20.7667163134 115% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.8125 7.06120827912 82% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.01903807615 40% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 8.67935871743 46% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 3.9879759519 125% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 3.4128256513 205% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.297775990282 0.244688304435 122% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0862421592637 0.084324248473 102% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.055657504573 0.0667982634062 83% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.187488527549 0.151304729494 124% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0497328247513 0.056905535591 87% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.6 13.0946893788 111% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 56.59 50.2224549098 113% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 11.3001002004 98% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.77 12.4159519038 103% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.92 8.58950901804 104% => OK
difficult_words: 100.0 78.4519038076 127% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 9.78957915832 112% => 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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