The pros and cons of using Facebook as a mean of online instruction
The widespread use of technology in all areas of life has led to its growing presence in educational settings. Facebook, which is the largest social networking site, has been used with the purpose of enhancing instruction. This essay will discuss both the pros and cons of the use of Facebook as an educational tool.
One of the potential advantages of using Facebook as an instructional tool is that it can contribute to solve teachers’ problem of inadequate class time. A more personal and focused contact with the students is always limited, especially in a overcrowded classroom while contact hours are relatively few. With the support of Facebook, teachers and students have more chances to discuss things related to the lessons. Plus, Facebook provides teachers effective tools to manage class projects and assignments. Students post their assignments, and teachers can give feedback by commenting on the posts. In addition, online learning activities give students the opportunity to work collaboratively, learn together and from each other. For instance, students can broaden their knowledge and have access to a broader view of what others think about the same topic through online discussions because some students inside the classroom often feel shy to speak out, but on Facebook, they had greater confidence to give their views.
Although Facebook provides many benefits, it also presents several downsides. First, students might have difficulty maintaining their attention on class activities when Facebook activities are initiated. For example, when accessing Facebook to do an assignment, a student might be intrigued by lots of things such as an interesting video or shocking news, which might lead to a decrease in efficiency. Second, although teachers can give a lecture via a live stream, they cannot interact with students face to face, so it is hard to engage them during online activities. This is a big minus of Facebook as compared to Zoom, a video conferencing platform.
In short, Facebook has many features that teachers and students can take advantage of. It enables more intense interaction of students with the teachers and among students. Still, there are some pitfalls implied in the use of it. Teachers, therefore, need to be creative and up-to-date with the current technology in order to keep up with the fast-paced society, and create greater lessons.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, if, second, so, still, therefore, while, for example, for instance, in addition, in short, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 13.1623246493 84% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 7.85571142285 140% => OK
Conjunction : 13.0 10.4138276553 125% => OK
Relative clauses : 6.0 7.30460921844 82% => OK
Pronoun: 17.0 24.0651302605 71% => OK
Preposition: 62.0 41.998997996 148% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 8.3376753507 96% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2020.0 1615.20841683 125% => OK
No of words: 379.0 315.596192385 120% => OK
Chars per words: 5.32981530343 5.12529762239 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.41224685777 4.20363070211 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.89085023105 2.80592935109 103% => OK
Unique words: 217.0 176.041082164 123% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.572559366755 0.561755894193 102% => OK
syllable_count: 621.0 506.74238477 123% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 5.43587174349 110% => OK
Article: 4.0 2.52805611222 158% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.10420841683 143% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 0.809619238477 371% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 3.0 4.76152304609 63% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 16.0721442886 118% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 20.2975951904 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 52.9061260323 49.4020404114 107% => OK
Chars per sentence: 106.315789474 106.682146367 100% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.9473684211 20.7667163134 96% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.10526315789 7.06120827912 86% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.01903807615 40% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 8.67935871743 138% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 3.9879759519 50% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 3.4128256513 147% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.212090954961 0.244688304435 87% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0678098039335 0.084324248473 80% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0657267174799 0.0667982634062 98% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.133978933946 0.151304729494 89% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0741080318475 0.056905535591 130% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.6 13.0946893788 104% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 52.19 50.2224549098 104% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 11.3001002004 95% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.63 12.4159519038 110% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.95 8.58950901804 104% => OK
difficult_words: 105.0 78.4519038076 134% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 9.78957915832 123% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.1190380762 95% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 10.7795591182 130% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 84.2696629213 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 Out of 6
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