In the past, lectures were the traditional method of teaching large numbers of students in a classroom. Nowadays new technology is increasingly being used to teach students.
What are the advantages and disadvantages of this new approach in teaching?
Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own experience or knowledge.
We have moved into a technology-driven era where technology is affecting many different aspects of our life, and education is no exception. So, in some schools, traditional methods of education have been revolutionised by new technology to the extent that the lecture is no longer the main method of teaching students. While this new approach has some advantages, it also has many significant shortcomings. This essay outlines both the advantages of disadvantages of this novel approach.
Perceivably the biggest advantage of the use of the latest technology in education is the flexibility it offers. This is evident in two different ways- firstly, it is now no longer essential for students to be present in the classroom for their courses. Covid-19 pandemic has specifically taught us how this flexibility could be a lifesaver. Moreover, the distance learning facility enables employed professionals, housewives and people from different countries to enrol and successfully finish useful courses offered by numerous institutes. Another area of flexibility is of course that the lecturers can use interactive tools like "Moodles", for example, and other tools to deliver their courses in a more stimulating way to large numbers of students.
Not everything, however, about the introduction of this new technology into education is useful. To start, not all students are comfortable with using technology, even if they are part of the digital native generation. This is a grave issue as they may suffer from their lack of technological skills and interests. For instance, an overwhelming number of students, almost 75%, despite their enthusiasm about smartphones and computers, reported that they do not like online classes. Another related issue is that education is a human activity, and it works best with as much human interaction as possible. Impersonal technology cannot replace the human contact found in traditional face-to-face tutorials and seminars. Thus a piece of technology or tool can never be an alternative to experts tutors who know their students individually and act and teach them accordingly.
To conclude, technology in education brings some important benefits and enables distance learning possible. It also becomes the only way of learning and teaching during pandemics and disasters. However, by the fact that it can be too impersonal for some and discourages others for their lack of technological skills or passion, it is still not the best method to teach and learn
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
accordingly, also, first, firstly, however, if, may, moreover, so, still, thus, while, for example, for instance, of course
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 19.0 7.48453608247 254% => Less to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 4.92783505155 122% => OK
Conjunction : 17.0 5.05154639175 337% => Less conjunction wanted
Relative clauses : 7.0 3.03092783505 231% => Less relative clauses wanted (maybe 'which' is over used).
Pronoun: 32.0 32.9175257732 97% => OK
Preposition: 49.0 26.3917525773 186% => OK
Nominalization: 13.0 3.85567010309 337% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2125.0 937.175257732 227% => Less number of characters wanted.
No of words: 390.0 206.0 189% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.44871794872 4.54256449028 120% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.44391917772 3.78020617076 118% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.23239783941 2.54303337028 127% => OK
Unique words: 212.0 127.690721649 166% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.54358974359 0.622605031667 87% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 677.7 290.88556701 233% => syllable counts are too long.
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.41237113402 120% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 9.13402061856 88% => OK
Article: 2.0 0.824742268041 243% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 2.0 1.83505154639 109% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 0.463917525773 647% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 6.0 1.44329896907 416% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 12.6804123711 150% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 16.3608247423 122% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 41.1692002241 44.8134815571 92% => OK
Chars per sentence: 111.842105263 76.5299724578 146% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.5263157895 16.8248392259 122% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.47368421053 4.34317383033 149% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.29896907216 93% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 2.54639175258 157% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 7.41237113402 135% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 1.49484536082 535% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 3.94845360825 25% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.290062100074 0.216113520407 134% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0828588580826 0.0766984524023 108% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.056749007969 0.0603063233224 94% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.169160856815 0.12726935374 133% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0502190349895 0.0580467560999 87% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.5 8.37731958763 173% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 42.72 70.7449484536 60% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 3.82989690722 292% => Smog_index is high.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 7.45979381443 165% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.33 8.71597938144 164% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.28 7.59969072165 122% => OK
difficult_words: 115.0 41.2886597938 279% => Less difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 8.62886597938 127% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 8.54432989691 117% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 8.15463917526 135% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 78.6516853933 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.0 Out of 9
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