Personal electronic devices such as smartphones, laptops or tablets are getting more common as learning tools. Do the advantages of using these devices outweigh the disadvantages?
In recent years, individual electronic gadgets such as tablets, smartphones or laptops have gained enormous popularity. Notwithstanding a set of drawbacks that these devices involve, their benefits are much more noticeable.
On the one hand, exerting digital devices in learning may have some major disadvantages. The greatest downside of these gadgets is the distraction happening to students. Many students feel so bored in lessons as games, music and Facebook seem to be more intriguing to them. It is no secret that students check their phones up to 11 times a day in class. Obviously, it leads to a decline in their test results. Another negative aspect I want to mention is the prevalence of improper information. Since these devices are connected to the Internet, users are easily absorbed in negative and unofficial sources of information. For instance, false knowledge from an inappropriate book online may mislead students who read it.
On the other hand, although utilizing electronic devices in the domain of studying has several drawbacks, they offer users a variety of benefits. Initially, compared to traditional learning methods, these implements supply students with a more diverse source of information, pictures and videos, which assist in illustration while studying. Through tablets, phones and laptops, students are more likely to have a better grasp of lessons. Furthermore, there are numerous applications utilized in studying. Rather than spending time on textbooks, teachers can allow students to listen to podcasts or improve pronunciation through voice recognition apps. Another point in favor of advantages is that electronic gadgets prompt students’ self- reliance. Though there are questions about whether numerous online sources of information are reliable or not, they are still served as helpful materials for students to learn on their own. For example, they can find the meaning of a word by looking up in a dictionary on their phone instead of asking teachers.
In short, exerting individual electronic devices in the classroom has been a successful step in the revolution of learning methods. Despite the disadvantages these gadgets may bring, they still do more good than harm.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
furthermore, look, may, so, still, while, for example, for instance, in short, such as, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 13.1623246493 106% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 7.85571142285 64% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 10.4138276553 67% => OK
Relative clauses : 5.0 7.30460921844 68% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 22.0 24.0651302605 91% => OK
Preposition: 54.0 41.998997996 129% => OK
Nominalization: 13.0 8.3376753507 156% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1880.0 1615.20841683 116% => OK
No of words: 344.0 315.596192385 109% => OK
Chars per words: 5.46511627907 5.12529762239 107% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.30665032142 4.20363070211 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.97803841777 2.80592935109 106% => OK
Unique words: 207.0 176.041082164 118% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.601744186047 0.561755894193 107% => OK
syllable_count: 580.5 506.74238477 115% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.60771543086 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 5.43587174349 147% => OK
Article: 1.0 2.52805611222 40% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.10420841683 143% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 7.0 4.76152304609 147% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 16.0721442886 124% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 20.2975951904 84% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 34.9879979422 49.4020404114 71% => OK
Chars per sentence: 94.0 106.682146367 88% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.2 20.7667163134 83% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.25 7.06120827912 74% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 8.67935871743 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 3.9879759519 125% => OK
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: 0.216855037766 0.244688304435 89% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.05902485799 0.084324248473 70% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0565448869474 0.0667982634062 85% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.159557390916 0.151304729494 105% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0608031391684 0.056905535591 107% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.9 13.0946893788 99% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 45.76 50.2224549098 91% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 11.3001002004 98% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.15 12.4159519038 114% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.48 8.58950901804 110% => OK
difficult_words: 109.0 78.4519038076 139% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.0 9.78957915832 72% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 10.1190380762 87% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.7795591182 83% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 84.2696629213 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.5 Out of 9
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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.