A glance at modern pedagogic methods brings to light a question that has several times provoked debate, namely, whether the advent of technology has made educating children more difficult. Some might contend that the cell phone and the Internet facilitates education because it brings information to its users with a single click on the mouse. Nonetheless, I would like to suggest that cell phones, online games, and social networking websites severely interfere with children's education in terms of their attention, time and the way they learn.
First and foremost, technologies like social networking website deprive students of their invaluable time. At present, it is not uncommon for students to spend a large amount of time on their digital devices. For instance, some children socialize with their friends through cell phone applications whenever they have something to share, others spend several hours playing online games till late night. All of these activities are a waste of time and shorten the time they can use to read and think.
Secondly, today's children find it more difficult to concentrate in classes than before. Thanks to the development of Information Technology, people now have access to the Internet almost everywhere. As a result, students tend to chat with their friends or playing online games in the classroom, which undeniably distracts them from their studies. What is more, these behaviors also cause troubles to teachers, thus disrupting the order of the class as a whole. Were students to learn knowledge well, they would have to fully concentrated in the classes, regardless of how smart they are.
Admittedly, there are justifications by those who argue that with modern technology, education is becoming increasingly easier. This is best illustrated with the examples of cell phones that make teachers more reachable for students than ever before, as well the Internet that brings all the libraries around the globe onto the students' desks. However, I still affirm that technology makes knowledge fractured and shallow, and it is textbooks and classes that offer systematic and organized knowledge. So relying on new technologies to learn can easily get students bewildered and lower the efficiency of learning.
Due to the aforementioned ground, education has been more difficult a task today, since students consume too much time on cell phones, online games and social networking websites, and distracted attention and limited time to learn are two prime and conspicuous reasons.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, however, if, nonetheless, second, secondly, so, still, thus, well, for instance, as a result, what is more
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 15.1003584229 73% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 9.8082437276 51% => OK
Conjunction : 16.0 13.8261648746 116% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 11.0286738351 91% => OK
Pronoun: 31.0 43.0788530466 72% => OK
Preposition: 54.0 52.1666666667 104% => OK
Nominalization: 11.0 8.0752688172 136% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2137.0 1977.66487455 108% => OK
No of words: 397.0 407.700716846 97% => OK
Chars per words: 5.38287153652 4.8611393121 111% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.46372701284 4.48103885553 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.77965375739 2.67179642975 104% => OK
Unique words: 227.0 212.727598566 107% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.571788413098 0.524837075471 109% => OK
syllable_count: 654.3 618.680645161 106% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.51630824373 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 9.59856630824 63% => OK
Interrogative: 1.0 0.994623655914 101% => OK
Article: 1.0 3.08781362007 32% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 3.51792114695 85% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.86738351254 161% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.94265232975 40% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 20.6003584229 83% => 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: 23.0 20.1344086022 114% => OK
Sentence length SD: 49.0304615435 48.9658058833 100% => OK
Chars per sentence: 125.705882353 100.406767564 125% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.3529411765 20.6045352989 113% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.0 5.45110844103 128% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.5376344086 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 11.8709677419 67% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 3.85842293907 181% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.88709677419 41% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.282582474338 0.236089414692 120% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0841176186658 0.076458572812 110% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0671400478652 0.0737576698707 91% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.163795702904 0.150856017488 109% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0640136930367 0.0645574589148 99% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.6 11.7677419355 133% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 48.13 58.1214874552 83% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.10430107527 144% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 10.1575268817 121% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.22 10.9000537634 130% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.07 8.01818996416 113% => OK
difficult_words: 108.0 86.8835125448 124% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 15.5 10.002688172 155% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 10.0537634409 111% => OK
text_standard: 16.0 10.247311828 156% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 90.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 27.0 Out of 30
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