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? Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge or experience.

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The
Internet
is starting to take a huge place in our daily lives. Indeed, even
computers
are now used at school which
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some people who think that children are becoming far too dependent on
computers
.
Then
they claim to forbid using
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in order to go back to teaching basic study
skills
. In
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this
opinion which is, from my own point of view, excessive.
Firstly
,
computers
at school are only used in order to work. Generally speaking, when children are dependent on
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this
is because of social networks or
computer
games, whereas in the classroom,
such
activities are obviously forbidden.
The teenagers
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are most of
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more connected than their elders but
that is
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lives.
For instance
, working on a
computer
might be more useful whether the student
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not understand a word or a tricky detail, he can
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for it on the
Internet
. Indeed, it is sometimes faster to take notes on a laptop than with a pencil. To give another example, if an undergraduate student
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conference, organising a diaporama
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will be largely easier on a specific application than drawing on paper.
Moreover
, a
computer
has a large range of storage which is not the case with paper files.
On the other hand
, working online should not be the only way of work because having a cut of networks or making any error can
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of time. Indeed, basic study
skills
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crucial as well because The
Internet
might not be here
during
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all our lives. But even
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except
that, for some subjects like mathematics ,
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writing
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paper is essential, teenagers can not do
this
on
computer
.
For example
,
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writing
on online files need
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required and
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is not enough touch on a
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for mathematic signs. We can
also
notice that basic
skills
might be important but reading or
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writing
on a desk-
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laptop
do not affect our
skills
. To conclude, I believe that children use more pens than
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during their elementary school .
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,
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or for the university. I do not think that
computers
are so
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harmful
for students
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when they are used properly.
Hence
in the future, I think that everyone will use the
Internet
daily.
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