School children are becoming far too dependent on computers. This is having an alarming effect on reading and writing skills. Teachers need to avoid using computers in the classroom at all costs and go back to the teaching basic study skills.Do you agree or disagree? Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge or experience. Write at least 250 words

Nowadays, modern technology has totally changed our approach

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the study

. In many countries, students no longer have to copy notes by hand from the blackboard;

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the teacher gives them a photocopy. Rather than messy ink and pen, students present a typed- up copy of their assignments. Their computer even checks their spellings as they go. In fact, some people believe that modern technology does a lot of our thinking for us and,

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, we are going to

loose

fail to keep or to maintain; cease to have, either physically or in an abstract sense

lose

our ability to think for ourselves. In my opinion, spelling skills have definitely deteriorated in the recent years. So many

the young

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people use mobile phones to send text messages where speed and conciseness are more important than spelling or grammar. Some teachers complain that these students take the same attitude towards their assignments.

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, typed assignments are much easier to read. Frankly, I find some notes or texts which are handwritten almost impossible to read. Doctors,

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, have a reputation for illegible handwriting, which could lead to disastrous medical mistakes. Perhaps, it is time we focussed not on handwriting, but on presenting information as

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accurate

as possible. One advantage of computers is that access to the Internet has opened up a new world of learning for us. We no longer have to wait for a book that has already been borrowed from the library before we do our research. In fact, the Internet can clearly be used to research information in the same way as a library, but more conveniently. On the whole, rather than holding students back, I believe that the modern technology has actually improved standards

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education considerably.