More educators these days are using technology in the classroom. In fact, many teachers now record their lectures, upload them on a website, and ask students to watch them before their lesson. During class, students report on the lectures and discuss them together. Would you prefer to have traditional style class or one where the lectures are pre-recorded?
There is a trend nowadays, educators more and more use technology like video recording and sharing it with students on websites prior to lectures. Especially it came obvious during the lockdown period caused by Covid-19 that a digital approach is essential when it is necessary to find an alternative to traditional classrooms. From my point of view, you should have to have an option to choose between such technology-based education and traditional style class.
I find two reasons why some students would prefer the traditional style. The first one is that you cannot ask questions while watching video lectures and obtain answers rapidly. Therefore, you have to write down things you do not understand and then ask the educator to explain, but that can lead to misunderstandings and you just can forget what to ask. Not surprisingly, it takes time to make notes after watching lectures and not so efficient without the ability to ask questions directly. Second, there is a risk that some students will not watch videos beforehand the lecture and they would not engage during the classroom because they are just not familiar with the topic of the lecture. Given this, if you attend the lecture you cannot skip or not listen to the educator especially if the lecturer can ask some questions from his side to check students' understanding during the class.
Nonetheless, it would be rash to conclude that technology doesn’t useful in terms of education. Technology-based lectures also can be very productive. For instance, during my education at Russian Gubkin State University, that method was used. Some educators provide us videos before the lecture, and then the matter of the lecture was explained additionally by discussing it together, asking questions, sharing opinions, giving arguments pros and cons. Most important we had more time to scrutinize the topic not just by absorbing text and formulas itself but by applying the subject to some real-life problems.
In conclusion, I want to highlight that traditional style class and applying technology in classrooms both can benefit education, we should not avoid any means to enhance student’s abilities and we must combine and provide the ability to choose between different styles of education.
- The first man to walk on the moon claimed it was a step forward for mankind However it has made little difference in most people s lives To what extent do you agree or disagree 95
- The maps below show university sports courts in 1990 and now Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features and make comparisons where relevant 89
- The reading states that TV appearances benefit professors and their universities However the lecturer questions these benefits 80
- The graph show average CO2 emissions per person in the UK Sweden Italy and Portugal between 1967 and 2007 61
- The chart shows the changes in UK citizens travel aims from 1994 to 1998 along with the bar chart providing data on their preferred routes during the same period 89
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, if, nonetheless, second, so, then, therefore, while, for instance, in conclusion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 15.1003584229 66% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 14.0 9.8082437276 143% => OK
Conjunction : 17.0 13.8261648746 123% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 11.0286738351 73% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 33.0 43.0788530466 77% => OK
Preposition: 49.0 52.1666666667 94% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 8.0752688172 87% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1904.0 1977.66487455 96% => OK
No of words: 364.0 407.700716846 89% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.23076923077 4.8611393121 108% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.36792674256 4.48103885553 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.90970252707 2.67179642975 109% => OK
Unique words: 203.0 212.727598566 95% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.557692307692 0.524837075471 106% => OK
syllable_count: 594.0 618.680645161 96% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.51630824373 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 9.59856630824 83% => OK
Article: 1.0 3.08781362007 32% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 3.51792114695 28% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.86738351254 107% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.94265232975 61% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 20.6003584229 73% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 24.0 20.1344086022 119% => OK
Sentence length SD: 58.9720837911 48.9658058833 120% => OK
Chars per sentence: 126.933333333 100.406767564 126% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.2666666667 20.6045352989 118% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.53333333333 5.45110844103 120% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.53405017921 88% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.5376344086 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 11.8709677419 34% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 3.85842293907 104% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.88709677419 143% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.234341834899 0.236089414692 99% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0809114551466 0.076458572812 106% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.050870711415 0.0737576698707 69% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.130681376523 0.150856017488 87% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0426875342571 0.0645574589148 66% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.3 11.7677419355 130% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 47.12 58.1214874552 81% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 6.10430107527 183% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.7 10.1575268817 125% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.35 10.9000537634 122% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.95 8.01818996416 112% => OK
difficult_words: 95.0 86.8835125448 109% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 10.002688172 120% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 10.0537634409 115% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 10.247311828 117% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Better to have 5 paragraphs with 3 arguments. And try always support/against one side but compare two sides, like this:
para 1: introduction
para 2: reason 1. address both of the views presented for reason 1
para 3: reason 2. address both of the views presented for reason 2
para 4: reason 3. address both of the views presented for reason 3
para 5: conclusion.
So how to find out those reasons. There is a formula:
reasons == advantages or
reasons == disadvantages
for example, we can always apply 'save time', 'save/make money', 'find a job', 'make friends', 'get more information' as reasons to all essay/speaking topics.
or we can apply 'waste time', 'waste money', 'no job', 'make bad friends', 'get bad information' as reasons to all essay/speaking topics.
Rates: 76.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.0 Out of 30
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