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.
We already have entered into a digital world where technology has a ripple effect on every people of every age. We cannot think of a single day without the help and influence of technology in our personal and professional life. It pervades each and every aspect of human life. But when it comes to children’s creativity, we need to pause for a while to think where we are heading to? Many people are out crying that technology has a great negative impact on a child’s creativity. They contend that today’s children are less creative comparing to the past and they blame the dependency on technology for that. Although there are great numbers of people who believe that technology is conducive for children’s creativity, however, I am of my honest opinion that technology affects our child creativity negatively.
To start with, a child’s brain development or allocating “neural real estate” depends on how they spend their time. If they only confine to high speed, numbing technology, then their brain efficiently malfunctions the no longer needed frontal cortex. That is to say that executive function, impulse control and critical thinking are essential for learning are long gone. Likewise, imagination or creativity, also necessary for learning, are gone that are necessary for success and survival in the increasingly competitive world. Thus, early exposure to technology hampers a child’ creativity.
Similarly, early exposure to technology also brings changes in brain structure, chemistry, and function in areas pertaining to addiction. The addiction to technology could be deemed as a lack of imagination and creativity. For example, if a child could involve in a variety of activities alternate to technology, they would not be addicted. The younger the child is, and the more excessive exposure to technology he has, the more chances that the toddler will be in addiction.
On the other hand, in the past, children had several natural avenues of expressing their creativity than today. Just few decades ago, children used to play outside all day, building forts, playing sports and many games instantly devised by them. With their imaginative power, children of the past innovated their own form of play that did not need cost toys. Children then usually roamed a lot and their sensory world was simple and nature based which boosted their imaginative power.
In conclusion, while no one can deny the advantages of technology in today’s world, the connection to these devices may cause disconnection from what a child direly need for healthy mental growth that hones his imaginative and creative powers. So, what we need is to balance the use of technology with those crucial factors regarding child creativity.
Discourse Markers used:
['also', 'but', 'however', 'if', 'likewise', 'may', 'regarding', 'similarly', 'so', 'then', 'thus', 'while', 'for example', 'in conclusion', 'to start with', 'on the other hand', 'that is to say']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.24693877551 0.229887763892 107% => OK
Verbs: 0.14693877551 0.158761421928 93% => OK
Adjectives: 0.102040816327 0.0866891130778 118% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0489795918367 0.046263068375 106% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0530612244898 0.0685040099705 77% => OK
Prepositions: 0.114285714286 0.118717715034 96% => OK
Participles: 0.0387755102041 0.0351676179071 110% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.84749327922 2.67179642975 107% => OK
Infinitives: 0.034693877551 0.0309702414327 112% => OK
Particles: 0.00204081632653 0.00188951952338 108% => OK
Determiners: 0.0816326530612 0.0887237588012 92% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0142857142857 0.0209618222197 68% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.0204081632653 0.0139019557991 147% => OK
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 2752.0 2387.08602151 115% => OK
No of words: 440.0 408.028673835 108% => OK
Chars per words: 6.25454545455 5.86048508987 107% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.57997565096 4.48200974243 102% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.379545454545 0.338922669872 112% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.313636363636 0.251872472559 125% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.220454545455 0.174417080927 126% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.168181818182 0.112833075102 149% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.84749327922 2.67179642975 107% => OK
Unique words: 251.0 212.727598566 118% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.570454545455 0.524397521467 109% => OK
Word variations: 69.0014792397 59.2087087015 117% => OK
How many sentences: 22.0 20.6684587814 106% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 20.5533526081 97% => OK
Sentence length SD: 40.0518517231 48.84282405 82% => OK
Chars per sentence: 125.090909091 120.699889404 104% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.0 20.5533526081 97% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.772727272727 0.644075263715 120% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.5376344086 110% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.54480286738 0% => OK
Readability: 51.3636363636 45.7405998639 112% => OK
Elegance: 1.60655737705 1.45489161554 110% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.30039737375 0.300154397459 100% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.126868132181 0.103427244359 123% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.079324521761 0.0752933317313 105% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.496863255076 0.497263757937 100% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.122430234551 0.151897553556 81% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.110294104181 0.114077575197 97% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0670285299385 0.0781384742642 86% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.257362844986 0.336927656856 76% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0734991795587 0.067059652881 110% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.196240052499 0.210909579961 93% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0358112069736 0.0618886996521 58% => OK
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 13.0 11.8870967742 109% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 3.86379928315 104% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.91756272401 102% => OK
Positive topic words: 13.0 8.42114695341 154% => OK
Negative topic words: 4.0 2.4623655914 162% => OK
Neutral topic words: 3.0 2.75985663082 109% => OK
Total topic words: 20.0 13.6433691756 147% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
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Rates: 86.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 26.0 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.