Thursday, May 6, 2010

Are Word Processing Making Students lazy ?


Today, word processing programs fix spelling and grammar mistakes, automatically format documents with templates, help correctly reference works cited in a document, and seem to do everything short of generating an idea for a document. Some educators believe that the proliferation of word processing automation is cheating students of fundamental ability to perform these tasks on their own. research shows that as word processing programs became more popular over the past years, the quality of written work done without the aid of software has dropped dramaticlly.Opponents of using word processing software for assignments point out the quality of e-mail and instant messages is markedly worse than wokks written wiyh the aid of modern word processing programs.


Proponents of the use of word processing programs for eductional use point out that automation is the way of writing should be done now and in the future. The high quality of works produced using the software is well worth not sacrificing time toward teaching students less modern tactics. Students are more productive and able to focus on the topic at hand, rather than worry about spelling errors.

3 comments:

  1. i totally agree with you there. students are too lazy nowadays to think independently because the word processing program does everything for them. This is also going to have a great impact on all their written work because grammar and spelling will always be poor and unsatisfactory and students will also always rely on this program.

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  2. we are living in the information world and these programes are devised to make life easier for students....... so no they are not makin us lazy because its there for our benefit and also we are learning to use them for when we are in work situations we know our way around these programes

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  3. i disagree with dudley these programs are making children lazy henceforth they should be terminatted

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