tailieunhanh - Barron's writing for the toefl ibt part 35

Tham khảo tài liệu 'barron's writing for the toefl ibt part 35', ngoại ngữ, toefl - ielts - toeic phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | 242 Writing for the TOEFL iBT MODEL TASK 7 MODEL TESTS INTEGRATED TASK 1 page 229 The author asks whether technology in the classroom has improved academic achievement. The speaker agrees that it can when there is adequate teacher training. The author talks about the ways that technology can improve learning by addressing different learning styles and by connecting to the rest of the world through the Internet. Unfortunately teachers do not always use technology in the best way possible so their students do not benefit from it. Academic achievement can be improved through technology if teachers are trained to use it. The speaker completely supports this point of view by discussing two studies. A survey of teachers found that they often do not receive enough training to use technology so they feel very uncomfortable with it. The majority do not use computers in their classrooms. The speaker then mentioned a special program in one school district. The teachers received 200 hours of training. They used technology in their classrooms to help their students develop thinking skills. These students scored much higher on achievement tests than other students in the school district. MODEL TASK 8 MODEL TESTS INTEGRATED TASK 2 page 231 fhe author gives an overview of the study of animal intelligence and points out that there is a lot of controversy around such research. Likewise the speaker discusses research on animal intelligence specifically on self-recognition and also mentions that not all scientists agree with interpretations of the results. The author especially mentions emotions and self-recognition as two things researchers look at when studying animal intelligence. She describes a particular study with dolphins. After scientists placed marks on the dolphins bodies the dolphins rushed to the mirror to look at the marks. So scientists say the animals recognized themselves in the mirror. The author adds that there is a lot of disagreement among scientists researching .