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 agree or disagree with the statement and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting your position, you should consider ways in which the statement might or might not hold true and explain how these considerations shape your position.
Technology is now an essential part of our lives: You can't turn around and not see a person with a palm-sized
smartphone, a laptop no bigger than a thin book. Technology has privileged us with significant curtailing of time used on transportation, communication, and other quotidian routines, and it has expanded its influences on ways students are taught in educational institutions. Paper textbooks, paper-based testings, offline meetings are now being replaced by e-textbooks, computer-based tests, and online meetings through video-calling platforms, which has resulted in efficient time management and saving of would-be wasted papers and inks. Considering the efficiency of such innovations, one can easily posit that the Internet offers schools improved methods for instructing students, a hardly refutable postulation. However, a solid ground as to claim that these technologies often distract students from real learning also appears to be profound.
It is very important to point out the positives of utilizing video-sharing platforms and internet-based lectures. Consider for recording of school lectures. Thanks to the newly approached way of education, a student who missed out on a class due to illness can more easily catch up, the entire student body can now see interconnectivity between lectures taken in different dates with ease, people who were in need of quality education but unaccessible due to constraints now have access. Also, utilization of e-textbook enabled a significant reduction of cost for buying a textbook, make it more easily accessible to ones who otherwise would not have been able to afford. With all the positives of those innovations considered, however, it exacts a double-edged sword.
There is an apparent psychological phenomenon that a person is less likely to change certain behaviors unless a level of uncomfortability exceeds that of their minimal thresholds for fixation. To delineate, a person is likely to continue studying something unless the level of temptation to do otherwise exceeds the current level of comfortability of studying. A student in a library is more likely to study more efficiently than a student in his/her own room with a Queen-sized soft bed right next to him/her. Presence of the comfortable bed plays as a factor to reduce the level of resistance to continue studying. Now, smartphones and labtops are leading runners of 'a click away' disposition. When using a labtop, you are always a click away from searching for controversial celebrity issues, or social media posts shared by your friends, independent of how concentrated you are in studying. So, with a single perturbance in your mind, you are already wasting your time in Facebook or Youtube, thanks to a lowered level of threshold caused by the presence of the very device you used to study. In contrast, such threshold levels can greatly increase by setting yourself up in a condition where it is hard and uncomfortable for you to get distracted: turn off your smartphone, study in a no-electronics library, which coincides with
the old-fashioned way of studying. In that sense, technology that allowed people to access quality education with better time management is the very source that caused a tendency to disengage from true concentration on studying.
Above accounts clearly demonstrate the fact that although innovations such as video, computers, and the Internet offers schools improved methods for instructing students, these technologies all too often distract students from efficient learning. It appears, that, considering the current level of distraction internet is producing, a solution of propriety would be to raise awareness of possible downsides of exploiting internet as an educational mean to students, and teach them how to best resist temptation of misusing the internet. All in all, the claim propounded by the author, is a legitimate one.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, however, if, so, as to, in contrast, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 22.0 19.5258426966 113% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 12.4196629213 64% => OK
Conjunction : 14.0 14.8657303371 94% => OK
Relative clauses : 15.0 11.3162921348 133% => OK
Pronoun: 37.0 33.0505617978 112% => OK
Preposition: 98.0 58.6224719101 167% => OK
Nominalization: 21.0 12.9106741573 163% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3352.0 2235.4752809 150% => OK
No of words: 609.0 442.535393258 138% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.50410509031 5.05705443957 109% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.96768813016 4.55969084622 109% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.2412670111 2.79657885939 116% => OK
Unique words: 326.0 215.323595506 151% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.535303776683 0.4932671777 109% => OK
syllable_count: 1028.7 704.065955056 146% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59117977528 107% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 6.24550561798 112% => OK
Article: 14.0 4.99550561798 280% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 1.0 3.10617977528 32% => OK
Conjunction: 6.0 1.77640449438 338% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 12.0 4.38483146067 274% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 22.0 20.2370786517 109% => OK
Sentence length: 27.0 23.0359550562 117% => OK
Sentence length SD: 74.5946207043 60.3974514979 124% => OK
Chars per sentence: 152.363636364 118.986275619 128% => OK
Words per sentence: 27.6818181818 23.4991977007 118% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.5 5.21951772744 48% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 31.0 4.97078651685 624% => Less paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 11.0 7.80617977528 141% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 13.0 10.2758426966 127% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 5.13820224719 97% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.83258426966 83% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.269546025912 0.243740707755 111% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0754018418834 0.0831039109588 91% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.106236690915 0.0758088955206 140% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0616188182706 0.150359130593 41% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0766225115088 0.0667264976115 115% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 18.3 14.1392134831 129% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 35.61 48.8420337079 73% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.92365168539 141% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 15.0 12.1743820225 123% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.92 12.1639044944 123% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.75 8.38706741573 116% => OK
difficult_words: 184.0 100.480337079 183% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 16.5 11.8971910112 139% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.8 11.2143820225 114% => OK
text_standard: 15.0 11.7820224719 127% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Maximum six paragraphs wanted.
Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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