One of the 3 R's that are most in risk is writing. Students are writing less, and what they do write is often illegible, so that we can see a drop-off in the quality of handwriting as well. In other words, many school teachers allow students to hand in may written projects in type-written not hand-written form. That makes students to be more careless about their grammatical and spelling mistakes, because they rely and depend on the computer program (spell check software) to correct the errors. Moreover, our children no longer know the basics of grammar and how to outline a sentence, identify the noun in the sentence, and select the proper for example if they were writing a sentence the spell check program might correct the error with the wrong option (their, they're, and there) when writing. In order to make our children master these 3 R's, try to read with them every night, make them write drafts before typing, and finally try to put down the calculator and encourage your child to do math home work long-hand. Thursday, 24 April 2014
The Three R's: Reading. Writing, and Arithematic
The coming of computers, calculators, and smart phones have just eliminated the use of the three R's. Technology has resulted many changes, both positive and negative. The increased use of technology now a days in the classroom and outside the classroom means that students are not focusing on learning the 3 R's anymore.
One of the 3 R's that are most in risk is writing. Students are writing less, and what they do write is often illegible, so that we can see a drop-off in the quality of handwriting as well. In other words, many school teachers allow students to hand in may written projects in type-written not hand-written form. That makes students to be more careless about their grammatical and spelling mistakes, because they rely and depend on the computer program (spell check software) to correct the errors. Moreover, our children no longer know the basics of grammar and how to outline a sentence, identify the noun in the sentence, and select the proper for example if they were writing a sentence the spell check program might correct the error with the wrong option (their, they're, and there) when writing. In order to make our children master these 3 R's, try to read with them every night, make them write drafts before typing, and finally try to put down the calculator and encourage your child to do math home work long-hand.
One of the 3 R's that are most in risk is writing. Students are writing less, and what they do write is often illegible, so that we can see a drop-off in the quality of handwriting as well. In other words, many school teachers allow students to hand in may written projects in type-written not hand-written form. That makes students to be more careless about their grammatical and spelling mistakes, because they rely and depend on the computer program (spell check software) to correct the errors. Moreover, our children no longer know the basics of grammar and how to outline a sentence, identify the noun in the sentence, and select the proper for example if they were writing a sentence the spell check program might correct the error with the wrong option (their, they're, and there) when writing. In order to make our children master these 3 R's, try to read with them every night, make them write drafts before typing, and finally try to put down the calculator and encourage your child to do math home work long-hand. 
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Technology is beneficial and very useful nowadays. Yes, it has resulted both positive and negative changes but we have to try as much as we can to take only the positive issues and skip the negative ones. Also, we should teach our children ans students of how to use it in a good way that doesn't lead them to forget the basic of their learning process either in grammar as you said or in any other issue.
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