Do you agree or disagree with the following statement?
Educating children is a more difficult task today than it was in the past because they spend so much time on cell phones, online games, and social networking Web sites.
Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.
Hearing teachers complain about the difficulty to educate children is not rare today, since the development of technology has brought diversified types of distraction to children. However, if we can apply these technologies appropriately, may be educating children can be much easier than before. Thus, I disagree with the statement that educating children is a more difficult task today than it was in the past.
To begin with, it is true that children now have a lot of distractions, such as smart phones, online games, and social medias, which can significantly impede children's education. Of course, I am one of those children too. I remember when I was elementary school student, counter strike was a cool online game to me. To be a cool kid within my group, I spent considerable time on practicing my shooting skill. Though I still had good academic performance, my teachers still contacted my parents and warned them that I had spent too much time on online games, so I could not focus in the class.
However, these distractions can actually be used as teaching tools. Since our brains can easily be addicted to rewards, designing educational games can provide instant positive effects to children. In that way, they will be more willing to study. For example, I am a person who can be easily distracted, so traditional ways of education may not have significant effects on me. As a result, I often looked for educational gaming apps to learn new knowledge. Under this circumstance, I could focus on studying longer than in the class.
Moreover, with the developments of technology, educating children is no longer confined in the classroom. Teachers today can record the video or design some games and upload them to the Internet. So that children can not only enjoy the process of learning, but can learn at any time and any place. These technologies actually offer more options for teachers to educate children.
To sum up, despite it is the fact that children today can be easily distracted, if teacher can embrace these distractions and use them properly, I believe educating children can be much easier than before.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, but, however, if, look, may, moreover, so, still, thus, for example, of course, such as, as a result, it is true, to begin with, to sum up
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 15.1003584229 113% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 18.0 9.8082437276 184% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 13.8261648746 51% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 9.0 11.0286738351 82% => OK
Pronoun: 39.0 43.0788530466 91% => OK
Preposition: 43.0 52.1666666667 82% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 8.0752688172 87% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1784.0 1977.66487455 90% => OK
No of words: 357.0 407.700716846 88% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.99719887955 4.8611393121 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.34677393335 4.48103885553 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.88538793211 2.67179642975 108% => OK
Unique words: 191.0 212.727598566 90% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.535014005602 0.524837075471 102% => OK
syllable_count: 556.2 618.680645161 90% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.51630824373 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 13.0 9.59856630824 135% => OK
Article: 0.0 3.08781362007 0% => OK
Subordination: 7.0 3.51792114695 199% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.86738351254 107% => OK
Preposition: 10.0 4.94265232975 202% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 20.6003584229 92% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 20.1344086022 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 45.3074446745 48.9658058833 93% => OK
Chars per sentence: 93.8947368421 100.406767564 94% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.7894736842 20.6045352989 91% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.78947368421 5.45110844103 143% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.5376344086 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 11.8709677419 59% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 3.85842293907 156% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.88709677419 123% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.240975450392 0.236089414692 102% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0860213985141 0.076458572812 113% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0853187775278 0.0737576698707 116% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.150008805769 0.150856017488 99% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0578132166061 0.0645574589148 90% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.5 11.7677419355 98% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 53.21 58.1214874552 92% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.10430107527 144% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 10.1575268817 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.72 10.9000537634 108% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.33 8.01818996416 104% => OK
difficult_words: 86.0 86.8835125448 99% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 10.002688172 120% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 10.0537634409 92% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 10.247311828 117% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 76.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.0 Out of 30
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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.