Technology has made children less creative than they were in the past.
Over the last few decades, technology developed exceedingly and has become affordable for more and more people. However, this growth had a detrimental effect on the creativity of children. I feel this way for a few reasons, which I will explore in the following essay.
Children have different thoughts and creative minds. We may be astonished by the abilities of children, especially newborns till the age of 6. It is been proved that babies can feel empathy for others. When they grow up diverse factors affect their creativity and attitudes. The modern technology like the visual and electronic media have an indelible effect in children's mind. All information is available at their fingertips now. This can retard their creativity in a variety of ways. For instance, children who are trying to learn alphabets and numerals, show these effects. Television has a lot of programs to teach small children to count and write numbers and alphabets. Because of the direct influence of the TV, children lose an opportunity to creatively think about how to write letters or numbers. Thus they are accustomed to the same way that others do them. My son is 4 years old and he loves to watch a TV show called 'Sesame Street'. In that, they show alphabets with a variety of cartoon characters and counting numbers till 100 with music. This not only affected my son's creativity but he got more addicted to television.
Secondly, creativity will provide children with patience and perseverance to achieve greater heights. Thomas Alva Edison, who is the inventor of the electric bulb, did thousands of experiments to get the final outcome. In his autobiography, it is clear that he had a creative mind and his parents encouraged him. He always thought differently from others which made him unique among his classmates. When he was preparing for his experiments he failed 1000 times. From each failure, he studied lessons to finally developed his patent discovery that made history. Diligence and hard work are exhibited in a creative mind. But now, every information is readily available and there is less need for thoughts or creativity. As a result, children are less working and they need quick results. Children are restless due to the advent of newer technologies like google, apps, and games. This can adversely affect their creativity.
Finally, if children are directed correctly by their teachers and parents, we can avoid the danger of less creativity. Parents should engage their children to do creative works like puzzles or crosswords and giving timelimit in watching television. Teachers should inculcate creative approaches in their teaching strategy. Thus we can carve a better and creative generation.
In sum, I strongly agree with the statement that technology made our children less creative. By interrupting the regular habits and by engaging them in creative ideas can ameliorate the creativity in children.
Comments
Essay evaluations by e-grader
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 809, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Thus,
... about how to write letters or numbers. Thus they are accustomed to the same way tha...
^^^^
Line 7, column 324, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Thus,
... approaches in their teaching strategy. Thus we can carve a better and creative gene...
^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, finally, however, if, may, second, secondly, so, thus, for instance, i feel, as a result
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 16.0 15.1003584229 106% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 13.0 9.8082437276 133% => OK
Conjunction : 25.0 13.8261648746 181% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 11.0286738351 109% => OK
Pronoun: 50.0 43.0788530466 116% => OK
Preposition: 57.0 52.1666666667 109% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 8.0752688172 111% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2454.0 1977.66487455 124% => OK
No of words: 475.0 407.700716846 117% => OK
Chars per words: 5.16631578947 4.8611393121 106% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.66845742379 4.48103885553 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.81149677706 2.67179642975 105% => OK
Unique words: 265.0 212.727598566 125% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.557894736842 0.524837075471 106% => OK
syllable_count: 755.1 618.680645161 122% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.51630824373 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 14.0 9.59856630824 146% => OK
Article: 1.0 3.08781362007 32% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 3.51792114695 142% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.86738351254 107% => OK
Preposition: 7.0 4.94265232975 142% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 34.0 20.6003584229 165% => OK
Sentence length: 13.0 20.1344086022 65% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 23.5193544682 48.9658058833 48% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 72.1764705882 100.406767564 72% => OK
Words per sentence: 13.9705882353 20.6045352989 68% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.73529411765 5.45110844103 50% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.5376344086 36% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 19.0 11.8709677419 160% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 3.85842293907 104% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 11.0 4.88709677419 225% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.300652806241 0.236089414692 127% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0745448998946 0.076458572812 97% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0605992403038 0.0737576698707 82% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.185269508434 0.150856017488 123% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0714329562533 0.0645574589148 111% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 9.9 11.7677419355 84% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 58.28 58.1214874552 100% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.10430107527 144% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.4 10.1575268817 83% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.11 10.9000537634 111% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.8 8.01818996416 110% => OK
difficult_words: 136.0 86.8835125448 157% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.0 10.002688172 70% => OK
gunning_fog: 7.2 10.0537634409 72% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.247311828 88% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 80.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.0 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.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 809, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Thus,
... about how to write letters or numbers. Thus they are accustomed to the same way tha...
^^^^
Line 7, column 324, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Thus,
... approaches in their teaching strategy. Thus we can carve a better and creative gene...
^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, finally, however, if, may, second, secondly, so, thus, for instance, i feel, as a result
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 16.0 15.1003584229 106% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 13.0 9.8082437276 133% => OK
Conjunction : 25.0 13.8261648746 181% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 11.0286738351 109% => OK
Pronoun: 50.0 43.0788530466 116% => OK
Preposition: 57.0 52.1666666667 109% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 8.0752688172 111% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2454.0 1977.66487455 124% => OK
No of words: 475.0 407.700716846 117% => OK
Chars per words: 5.16631578947 4.8611393121 106% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.66845742379 4.48103885553 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.81149677706 2.67179642975 105% => OK
Unique words: 265.0 212.727598566 125% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.557894736842 0.524837075471 106% => OK
syllable_count: 755.1 618.680645161 122% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.51630824373 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 14.0 9.59856630824 146% => OK
Article: 1.0 3.08781362007 32% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 3.51792114695 142% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.86738351254 107% => OK
Preposition: 7.0 4.94265232975 142% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 34.0 20.6003584229 165% => OK
Sentence length: 13.0 20.1344086022 65% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 23.5193544682 48.9658058833 48% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 72.1764705882 100.406767564 72% => OK
Words per sentence: 13.9705882353 20.6045352989 68% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.73529411765 5.45110844103 50% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.5376344086 36% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 19.0 11.8709677419 160% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 3.85842293907 104% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 11.0 4.88709677419 225% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.300652806241 0.236089414692 127% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0745448998946 0.076458572812 97% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0605992403038 0.0737576698707 82% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.185269508434 0.150856017488 123% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0714329562533 0.0645574589148 111% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 9.9 11.7677419355 84% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 58.28 58.1214874552 100% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.10430107527 144% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.4 10.1575268817 83% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.11 10.9000537634 111% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.8 8.01818996416 110% => OK
difficult_words: 136.0 86.8835125448 157% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.0 10.002688172 70% => OK
gunning_fog: 7.2 10.0537634409 72% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.247311828 88% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 80.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.0 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.