Do you agree or disagree with the following statement?
Technology has made children less creative than they were in the past
Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.
People define creativity as a thing of the mind. They go further to say that how well our minds generated inner voices determines how creative we become. The prompt suggests that in terms of creativity, technology has done more harm than good. In my opinion, I strongly disagree with the prompt and argue that technology improves the creative nature in children as it exposes them to loads of information, develops their mathematical skills, and makes them work faster and with ease.
First, technology exposes children to information. It is often said that without the necessary information, a child will be deformed. Technology brings information very close to the child so the child can learn from them and hence improve his creativity. For instance, in schools, the use of a technological tool called a laptop, have increased the knowledge base of children. As children relate better with pictures and they are allowed to browse educational websites and this increases their awareness of the outside world. A child who is deprived of a laptop will be lagging in terms of creativity as he would not be privy to enough information. Therefore, technological tools build children all-round making them highly informed.
Furthermore, technology increases children's creativity by adding to their mathematics skill. Studies have should that the more adept a child is with solving mathematics problem, the better his creativity. For example, a child who aspires to be an engineer will need to proffer solutions to a lot of difficult real-life problems which are often tied to mathematics. The invention of calculator, a technological tool, has helped increase the number of such problems a child is exposed to at such a young age, and also the number he can solve. Without calculators, a child will be restricted in his thinking and view of problems, and this will hamper his creativity.
On the other hand, some might argue that the persistent use of technology will make a child lazy. This is however not the case. Technology makes work easier and faster for every child. Take, for example, a child who is skilful in drawing with pen and paper, such child will be able to produce better drawings with a computer software called AutoCAD. If he was previously producing just a piece of drawing in a day, with the use of AutoCAD he will produce double even triple. He will also be able to try out different styles of drawing with computer software. In that way, technology improves his speed, saves his time, and adds to his imaginative thinking.
In conclusion, the advantages of technology to a child is invaluable. It adds to the creativity of every child as it improves their handling of real-life mathematics problem, exposes them to information and makes their working easier. How I wish that the Government stands up and invest in the technical literacy of every child.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, furthermore, hence, however, if, so, therefore, well, for example, for instance, in conclusion, in my opinion, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 15.1003584229 113% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 15.0 9.8082437276 153% => OK
Conjunction : 14.0 13.8261648746 101% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 11.0286738351 109% => OK
Pronoun: 44.0 43.0788530466 102% => OK
Preposition: 67.0 52.1666666667 128% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 8.0752688172 111% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2408.0 1977.66487455 122% => OK
No of words: 478.0 407.700716846 117% => OK
Chars per words: 5.03765690377 4.8611393121 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.67581127817 4.48103885553 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.86005529981 2.67179642975 107% => OK
Unique words: 231.0 212.727598566 109% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.483263598326 0.524837075471 92% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 749.7 618.680645161 121% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.51630824373 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 9.59856630824 63% => OK
Article: 11.0 3.08781362007 356% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 2.0 3.51792114695 57% => OK
Conjunction: 4.0 1.86738351254 214% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 7.0 4.94265232975 142% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 26.0 20.6003584229 126% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 20.1344086022 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 45.3429404485 48.9658058833 93% => OK
Chars per sentence: 92.6153846154 100.406767564 92% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.3846153846 20.6045352989 89% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.42307692308 5.45110844103 99% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.5376344086 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 16.0 11.8709677419 135% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 3.85842293907 130% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.88709677419 102% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.136059603087 0.236089414692 58% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0465719555221 0.076458572812 61% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0370327228892 0.0737576698707 50% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0879366272514 0.150856017488 58% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0454189226315 0.0645574589148 70% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.5 11.7677419355 98% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 53.21 58.1214874552 92% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.10430107527 144% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 10.1575268817 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.95 10.9000537634 110% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.06 8.01818996416 101% => OK
difficult_words: 107.0 86.8835125448 123% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 10.002688172 105% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 10.0537634409 92% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 10.247311828 117% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.0 Out of 30
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