Technological advancements in today's world have widely affected people's lifestyles and in this regard, education process is no exception. These new changes have increased public concerns and both the academics and practitioners are trying to find a solution. One controversial question that raises in this regard is whether technology has adversely affected the education process or not. However, there is no broad consensus among psychologists and educators over this issue.
Some parents believe that smartphones and other devices could be used by their children for educational purposes. They assert that these devices can teach children using various methods that are more appealing to children in comparison to the past. For example, children can learn a specific topic by playing educative games or reading informative stories. The results of a recent survey conducted at the University of Texas in 2017 shows the superiority of new methods of education over current traditional methods. This study shows that children tend to spend more time to study using smartphones rather than studying through reading a book. Thus, it seems that today, it is easier to attract children to learning using smart devices.
On the other hand, the first and foremost reason why educating children has become more difficult in comparison to the past is that children have a wide variety of tasks they can spend time on. In fact, today availability of devices such as smartphones and computers gave children another option besides studying. Since these devices are very appealing to children, most of the children would definitely prefer using these devices over studying. Consider smartphones and the available applications and software in these devices. One of the main application of smartphones which is widely used by children is playing games. Playing games can engage them for a relatively long time and thus inhibit them to allocate their time to do their homework.
In addition, as some psychologists believe, smart devices can adversely affect children's thinking even when they do not use these devices. In other words, smart devices expose children to an unlimited amount of information about different subjects, some of which may engage children’s minds. Constantly thinking about a specific issue, children may lose their focus and thus their functionality during studying.
To put the issue into perspective, I strongly assert that today, education process needs more effort in comparison to the past. Not only do the smart devices engage children in entertaining activities, but also they reduce their focus during studying process.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 717, Rule ID: AFFORD_VBG[1]
Message: This verb is used with infinitive: 'to use'.
Suggestion: to use
... easier to attract children to learning using smart devices. On the other hand, t...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, besides, but, first, however, if, may, so, thus, for example, in addition, in fact, such as, in other words, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 15.1003584229 73% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 9.8082437276 92% => OK
Conjunction : 14.0 13.8261648746 101% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 11.0286738351 100% => OK
Pronoun: 33.0 43.0788530466 77% => OK
Preposition: 58.0 52.1666666667 111% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 8.0752688172 124% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2244.0 1977.66487455 113% => OK
No of words: 411.0 407.700716846 101% => OK
Chars per words: 5.4598540146 4.8611393121 112% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.50256981431 4.48103885553 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.82922444928 2.67179642975 106% => OK
Unique words: 214.0 212.727598566 101% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.520681265207 0.524837075471 99% => OK
syllable_count: 700.2 618.680645161 113% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.51630824373 112% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 9.59856630824 63% => OK
Article: 2.0 3.08781362007 65% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 3.51792114695 57% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.86738351254 54% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.94265232975 121% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 21.0 20.6003584229 102% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 20.1344086022 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 25.123639842 48.9658058833 51% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 106.857142857 100.406767564 106% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.5714285714 20.6045352989 95% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.28571428571 5.45110844103 115% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.5376344086 18% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 11.8709677419 101% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 3.85842293907 104% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.88709677419 102% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.173384898174 0.236089414692 73% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0567338100814 0.076458572812 74% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0481126347152 0.0737576698707 65% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.101931582724 0.150856017488 68% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0450702799462 0.0645574589148 70% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.1 11.7677419355 120% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 43.73 58.1214874552 75% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.10430107527 144% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 10.1575268817 117% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.39 10.9000537634 132% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.54 8.01818996416 107% => OK
difficult_words: 103.0 86.8835125448 119% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 10.002688172 105% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.0537634409 95% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.247311828 88% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 80.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.0 Out of 30
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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.