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 teaching basic study skills. Do you agree or disagree?

Nowadays, we are witnessing incredible changes – during the several

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decades people

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made and improved many things which affected on our life. One of these significant changes is the universal use of computers and

Internet

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the Internet

. It is almost impossible to do something without machines, especially to study in school or university. There is an opinion that the complete computerization adversely affects to the quality of education, particularly on some basic skills like reading and writing. Does it really have

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serious consequences?

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, we should emphasise the differences which appeared in the contemporary educational system. Most obvious that children are typing more and more on a computer

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of writing by hand. And here comes another one, that all information resources like libraries, textbooks, school journals switched to a digital format and we can see so rarely children reading classical books. Regarding the negative characteristics we should notice educational system’s total dependence on digital resources. The young generation mostly becomes unreceptive to another type of information – they probably consider it boring, dry and outdated.

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, once I was visiting my friends and when we were discussing about some books, her little sister started to cry because as she admitted later that she really wants, but cannot read books enjoying that process and very jealous of us. But on

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these negative things there are a lot of advantages. In the future most of them will work with computers and they have to get

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to do it. They have an access to

endless stream

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an endless stream

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of data and result of their

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depends just on their desire to find something. Modern children almost do not have any restrictions and even students with disabilities able to study from the four corners of the world. In my opinion, generally it is a very necessary and useful trend which can improve the whole educational system. But we should to be prepared and try to use maximum of our new opportunities, but at the same time do not forget about

classical methods

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the classical methods

of teaching and perhaps should not jump to a computer ahead of the time.