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.
The statement sheds light on the impact of technology on the lives of children. It states that technology has had an adverse effect on the creativity of children. I personally disagree with the statement and believe that if used carefully and in a controlled manner, technological advances can lead to ease in learning and provide immense exposure to children which can proove to be beneficial in their overall development.
With the advent of teaching aids, complex phenomenon can be easily explained and visualized. For example, in a biology class, the working mechanism of the heart can be easily viewed today using a graphic video. Just a decade ago, students in class had to rely only on the diagram in their textbook to visualize this process. Similarly, with the availability of tools like projectors in the classroom, a boring event in history can be depicted in the form of an interesting film. Such techniques were not so easily available just a decade ago.
With easy internet access, an ocean of information is just a click away. This is especially valuable, for example, during science projects. In the past for example, a child had to rely on resources immediately availabe to him like the encycolpedia, or the local library, during such assignments. Today an almost unlimited source of data and information is available on the computer for a child to complete his project. This ease is the product of technological advancement.
Another important aspect of technology is the accessibility that it has provided to handicapped children and even adults. For instance, the electronic wheel chair is nothing short of a blessing for a child who has a difficulty in walking, advancements in material science have led to the design of comfortable prosthetic implants, the progress made by scientists in the use of Braille language has had a significant impact on the education of blind students.
Keeping in mind all these examples mentioned hitherto, technological advancements have helped children. It has given them access to information present globally and has also made their lives easier. There are cases where misuse of technology has had bitter consequences, however, in my opinion, a close parental control can resolve such discrepancies. All in all, I feel technology has aided children's imagination. An effect which would enhance creativity and not hamper it.
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Essay evaluations by e-grader
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, however, if, similarly, so, for example, for instance, i feel, such as, in my opinion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 15.1003584229 79% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 9.8082437276 71% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 13.8261648746 65% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 11.0286738351 63% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 20.0 43.0788530466 46% => OK
Preposition: 60.0 52.1666666667 115% => OK
Nominalization: 13.0 8.0752688172 161% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2006.0 1977.66487455 101% => OK
No of words: 385.0 407.700716846 94% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.21038961039 4.8611393121 107% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.4296068528 4.48103885553 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.06722344683 2.67179642975 115% => OK
Unique words: 212.0 212.727598566 100% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.550649350649 0.524837075471 105% => OK
syllable_count: 646.2 618.680645161 104% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.51630824373 112% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 9.59856630824 63% => OK
Article: 9.0 3.08781362007 291% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 0.0 3.51792114695 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.86738351254 54% => OK
Preposition: 8.0 4.94265232975 162% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 20.6003584229 97% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 20.1344086022 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 68.6803283335 48.9658058833 140% => OK
Chars per sentence: 100.3 100.406767564 100% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.25 20.6045352989 93% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.55 5.45110844103 83% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.5376344086 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 13.0 11.8709677419 110% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 3.85842293907 52% => More negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.164606491959 0.236089414692 70% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0509594889831 0.076458572812 67% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0422581041335 0.0737576698707 57% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0939255456876 0.150856017488 62% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0612780635645 0.0645574589148 95% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.7 11.7677419355 108% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 43.73 58.1214874552 75% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 6.10430107527 183% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 10.1575268817 117% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.94 10.9000537634 119% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.54 8.01818996416 119% => OK
difficult_words: 121.0 86.8835125448 139% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 10.002688172 120% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.0537634409 95% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 10.247311828 117% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 90.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 27.0 Out of 30
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, however, if, similarly, so, for example, for instance, i feel, such as, in my opinion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 15.1003584229 79% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 9.8082437276 71% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 13.8261648746 65% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 11.0286738351 63% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 20.0 43.0788530466 46% => OK
Preposition: 60.0 52.1666666667 115% => OK
Nominalization: 13.0 8.0752688172 161% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2006.0 1977.66487455 101% => OK
No of words: 385.0 407.700716846 94% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.21038961039 4.8611393121 107% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.4296068528 4.48103885553 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.06722344683 2.67179642975 115% => OK
Unique words: 212.0 212.727598566 100% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.550649350649 0.524837075471 105% => OK
syllable_count: 646.2 618.680645161 104% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.51630824373 112% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 9.59856630824 63% => OK
Article: 9.0 3.08781362007 291% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 0.0 3.51792114695 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.86738351254 54% => OK
Preposition: 8.0 4.94265232975 162% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 20.6003584229 97% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 20.1344086022 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 68.6803283335 48.9658058833 140% => OK
Chars per sentence: 100.3 100.406767564 100% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.25 20.6045352989 93% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.55 5.45110844103 83% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.5376344086 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 13.0 11.8709677419 110% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 3.85842293907 52% => More negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.164606491959 0.236089414692 70% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0509594889831 0.076458572812 67% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0422581041335 0.0737576698707 57% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0939255456876 0.150856017488 62% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0612780635645 0.0645574589148 95% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.7 11.7677419355 108% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 43.73 58.1214874552 75% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 6.10430107527 183% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 10.1575268817 117% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.94 10.9000537634 119% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.54 8.01818996416 119% => OK
difficult_words: 121.0 86.8835125448 139% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 10.002688172 120% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.0537634409 95% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 10.247311828 117% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 90.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 27.0 Out of 30
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.