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?

Printed items are getting substituted by electronic devices in many schools. The advantage of it is that information is readily available online, but the drawback is that electronic devices could harm the eyes of the students.

As technology is becoming more advanced these days, information can be found easily for the students especially on the Internet. Nowadays, the Internet is considered to be a free digital library with in-depth knowledge can be obtained by not only students but also teachers. This helps them to be able to keep up with the latest use of technology in their educational journey, rather than carrying heavy books to class or borrowing a pile of textbooks from the school library. For instance, if a student does not understand quantum mechanics in class, he could use Google to search for videos on that topic for further explanations and insights. Aside from that, teachers can find new materials online for improving their teaching skills.

On the other hand, using electronic equipment in class which could affect eye health is the possible downside, when it is spent too much time on the screen. This occurrence not only happens in school but also at workplace or at home. According to reports, the average time that children spend on electronic usages such as tablet and smartphone is around 4 hours per day. The result of getting an eye problem could be poor eyesight, itchy eyes, and blurry eyes.

To conclude, the use of technology at educational institutions are increasing as this benefits both students and teachers with any information that can be found online, but too much time on it could bring harm to their sights.

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Average: 7.3 (1 vote)
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, if, so, for instance, such as, on the other hand

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 16.0 13.1623246493 122% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 7.85571142285 115% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 10.4138276553 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 7.30460921844 110% => OK
Pronoun: 18.0 24.0651302605 75% => OK
Preposition: 38.0 41.998997996 90% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 8.3376753507 72% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1389.0 1615.20841683 86% => OK
No of words: 277.0 315.596192385 88% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.01444043321 5.12529762239 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.07962216107 4.20363070211 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.70563588359 2.80592935109 96% => OK
Unique words: 162.0 176.041082164 92% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.584837545126 0.561755894193 104% => OK
syllable_count: 421.2 506.74238477 83% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.60771543086 93% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 5.43587174349 55% => OK
Article: 5.0 2.52805611222 198% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.10420841683 143% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 0.809619238477 371% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 4.0 4.76152304609 84% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 16.0721442886 75% => 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 20.2975951904 113% => OK
Sentence length SD: 46.0069439203 49.4020404114 93% => OK
Chars per sentence: 115.75 106.682146367 108% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.0833333333 20.7667163134 111% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.91666666667 7.06120827912 70% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 8.67935871743 58% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 3.9879759519 75% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 3.4128256513 117% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.171064816203 0.244688304435 70% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0570368141185 0.084324248473 68% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0310831893766 0.0667982634062 47% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0890788787179 0.151304729494 59% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.03595313054 0.056905535591 63% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.7 13.0946893788 105% => 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: 12.07 12.4159519038 97% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.71 8.58950901804 101% => OK
difficult_words: 69.0 78.4519038076 88% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 9.78957915832 123% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 10.1190380762 111% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 10.7795591182 111% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 73.0337078652 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 6.5 Out of 9
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