Although innovations such as video, computers, and the Internet seem to offer schools improved methods for instructing students, these technologies all too often distract from real learning.Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agr

People go to school in order to learn important techniques, methods and knowledge needed to function in today’s society. Looking around, it’s true that more and more schools are encouraging their students to buy Ipads or computers as many of their teaching methods include these instruments. And surely, it is tempting to believe that these instruments take away a key focus of the education system namely learning by heart. Yet in this age of technology the concept of real learning has to be revised and updated up to the current needs of the society. Therefore, using technologies such as video, computer and the Internet redefine methods for instructing students and allow a larger scalable and adapted way of learning.

Firstly, the reliance on technology enables a more scalable learning as students can browse the Internet for knowledge on the topics that they have a passion for. This scalability is mainly present due to the use of videos, one person takes the time to make the video and then many people can view this from just behind their computer or tablet. In fact, an example of this is the EdX-platform where students can enroll in online courses for free from professors of all around the globe. This platform has courses on all the topics one can imagine: the history of Japan, the future of artificial intelligence or even the basics of Chinese can all be studied from wherever and whenever.

Some people might argue that by introducing technology in our learning process we forget the real learning such as the learning-by-heart or learning to write in a proper way. Nowadays, students use their calculators for even the most basic sums or have an automated spelling check when writing the documents.

Although it is true that technology enables another way of learning to the classic model we have used the past century, this is not a bad thing. Instead people learn new competences that are more necessary to function in today’s society. For example, when writing an essay the student needs to recollect and process a lot of information to then structure and compress this information and their ideas in a few pages. This teaches them to have a critical eye and analytical brain - two characteristics that are very useful and of utmost importance for future sucess. Technology increases the adaptibily of the curriculum for each and every student. Being able to learn on a computer is exteremly useful for people with dyslexia and eliminates their continuous frustrations when reading and learning. Thus, it can be said that technology in classrooms teach students the appropriate skills for the future as there they will also continuously work with technology.

Therefore, using technologies such as video, computer and the Internet redefine methods for instructing students and allow a larger scalable and adapted way of learning.

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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, firstly, if, look, so, then, therefore, thus, as to, for example, in fact, such as, it is true

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 19.5258426966 67% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 12.4196629213 64% => OK
Conjunction : 26.0 14.8657303371 175% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 11.3162921348 106% => OK
Pronoun: 33.0 33.0505617978 100% => OK
Preposition: 60.0 58.6224719101 102% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 12.9106741573 62% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2410.0 2235.4752809 108% => OK
No of words: 471.0 442.535393258 106% => OK
Chars per words: 5.11677282378 5.05705443957 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.65859790218 4.55969084622 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.84618047932 2.79657885939 102% => OK
Unique words: 229.0 215.323595506 106% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.486199575372 0.4932671777 99% => OK
syllable_count: 752.4 704.065955056 107% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 6.24550561798 96% => OK
Article: 3.0 4.99550561798 60% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 3.10617977528 64% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.77640449438 113% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 4.38483146067 23% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 20.2370786517 94% => OK
Sentence length: 24.0 23.0359550562 104% => OK
Sentence length SD: 28.6912111206 60.3974514979 48% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 126.842105263 118.986275619 107% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.7894736842 23.4991977007 105% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.63157894737 5.21951772744 108% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 7.80617977528 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 10.2758426966 97% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 5.13820224719 39% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.83258426966 145% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.151262816886 0.243740707755 62% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0569036908683 0.0831039109588 68% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0496005836486 0.0758088955206 65% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.109571860534 0.150359130593 73% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0524580507836 0.0667264976115 79% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.1 14.1392134831 107% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 47.12 48.8420337079 96% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.7 12.1743820225 104% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.71 12.1639044944 104% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.68 8.38706741573 103% => OK
difficult_words: 115.0 100.480337079 114% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 11.8971910112 92% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 11.2143820225 103% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.7820224719 110% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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