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For hundreds of years,
education has been closely connected to writing. Professors had been writing
down their lectures, and students had been keeping notes after their teachers.
Goose feathers and parchment (羊皮纸) changed to ballpoint pens
and paper, but the essence has remained the same: knowledge passed down from
one person to another must be thoroughly recorded.
With the emergence and
development of mobile technologies such as laptops and smartphones, using
conventional methods is gradually becoming obsolete (废弃的). Students tend to use laptops in class more often than pens and
paper. And although there are still many educational institutions that ban
using computers in class, there are many arguments in favor of doing so.
On the one hand, let us
face reality: people do not write as much today as they used to several years
ago. This is especially true in the case of the youth: teenagers and young
adults tend to feel more confident and comfortable typing on their devices
rather than with handwriting. Keeping records after a teacher in class requires
a student to write very fast, which often decreases the readability of the
notes taken. Sometimes it can be quite difficult for a student to understand
what he or she hurriedly wrote down in class. At the same time, typing on a
laptop helps write the important information down in a comprehensible and
accurate way. Also, handwriting always involves grammatical mistakes, typos,
blots (墨水迹), and so on. Obviously, students experience little-to-none of
such problems while using computers.
On the other hand, technology
is something youth nowadays have got so accustomed to that without it, they
operate less efficiently. Students are native to such devices as smartphones,
laptops, tablets, and other gadgets, and naturally incorporate them in whatever
they do, be it leisure time or studying. Not allowing students to use tablets
in class means to deprive (剥夺) them of something that is
almost a part of them and of their daily lives. If young people know how to use
technology to their advantage and increase their studying effectiveness with
its help, why forbid them from doing it?
答案: For centuries, knowledge has been recorded with handwriting. However, with such technologies as laptops developing, traditional recording methods are outdated. Many educational departments prohibiting it, many arguments are for using computers in class. For one thing, tying on devices can record information comprehensibly and accurately and avoid unnecessary mistakes. For another, accustomed to devices and taking advantage of them to study effectively, students should not be banned.