Tpo 9. Technology has made children less creative than they were in the past.I completely disagree with this claim that nowadays children are less creative than they were in the past. Here you can see my reasons.

Submitted by KPhogat on Wed, 09/12/2018 - 20:02

I disagree with the above statement that technology has made children less creative than they were in the past. This is because of the following reasons.

Children now a days are exposed to technology early in their life than they were in the past. This has resulted in increased intellectual stimulation of the brain especially of the creative part of the brain. Children exposed to technology learn more about the arts and sciences that are inherent in anything we humans create. They now a days do not have to depend on others to teach or assist them as much as we used to when I was young. For example, when I was in school, my arts and handicrafts teacher gave us an assignment of building a small house using different materials. We needed guidance from her during different stages of our small house development. I doubt that I would had been successful in building a small handicraft house without the guidance of my teacher. However, nowadays any information a child needs regarding any creative activity can be found on the internet. This has made it easy for children to develop their creativity without relying completely on others.

Further, technology has given more ways to create using different programs on the computer or on any other devices of modern technology. For example, if a child wants to paint a picture or edit a photograph that it shot, it can easily do it on the computer itself without ruining the original image. When I was young and I wanted to paint a picture and if I did a mistake on paper then I had to erase the whole picture and start over again. Sometimes this was frustrating for me and prevented me from doing more arts work than I would have done if I was a child now. Thus, technology is a boon and not a hinderance in developing creativity.

Also, technology keeps on getting regular updates and gives us information about the latest trends in all fields of interest. Children can now easily get access to any information they may need about the developments in their creative fields. In this way, they can besides developing their own creative ideas can also stay in touch with the creative activitiesthat others are doing around the world. In this way, they may also benefit from the ideas of others in increasing their own creativity. Children can also stay in touch online with their friends or other children interested in doing some creative work together or even separate. This can save their time and they can benefit by each others reinforcements on their work and suggest each other for some improvements. This was not easy earlier without the technology as distance was a problem in connecting with other children that were interested in similar tasks.

Therefore, I believe that technology is a boon for humanity instead of a curse. Technology has made things easier for everyone including children. Technology aids in various ways in developing the creativity of children and so children are getting more creative nowadays than they were in the past.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 10, Rule ID: NOW_A_DAYS[1]
Message: Did you mean 'nowadays'?
Suggestion: nowadays
...e of the following reasons. Children now a days are exposed to technology early in thei...
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Line 3, column 14, Rule ID: A_PLURAL[1]
Message: Don't use indefinite articles with plural words. Did you mean 'a day' or simply 'days'?
Suggestion: a day; days
... the following reasons. Children now a days are exposed to technology early in thei...
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Line 3, column 333, Rule ID: NOW_A_DAYS[1]
Message: Did you mean 'nowadays'?
Suggestion: nowadays
...rent in anything we humans create. They now a days do not have to depend on others to teac...
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Line 3, column 337, Rule ID: A_PLURAL[1]
Message: Don't use indefinite articles with plural words. Did you mean 'a day' or simply 'days'?
Suggestion: a day; days
... in anything we humans create. They now a days do not have to depend on others to teac...
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Line 3, column 687, Rule ID: DID_BASEFORM[1]
Message: The verb 'would' requires the base form of the verb: 'have'
Suggestion: have
...house development. I doubt that I would had been successful in building a small han...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, besides, however, if, may, regarding, so, then, therefore, thus, for example

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 20.0 15.1003584229 132% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 13.0 9.8082437276 133% => OK
Conjunction : 16.0 13.8261648746 116% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 11.0286738351 82% => OK
Pronoun: 59.0 43.0788530466 137% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 78.0 52.1666666667 150% => OK
Nominalization: 11.0 8.0752688172 136% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2504.0 1977.66487455 127% => OK
No of words: 518.0 407.700716846 127% => OK
Chars per words: 4.83397683398 4.8611393121 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.77070365392 4.48103885553 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.71628687688 2.67179642975 102% => OK
Unique words: 227.0 212.727598566 107% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.438223938224 0.524837075471 83% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 792.0 618.680645161 128% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.51630824373 99% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 14.0 9.59856630824 146% => OK
Article: 0.0 3.08781362007 0% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 3.51792114695 85% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.86738351254 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.94265232975 40% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 26.0 20.6003584229 126% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 20.1344086022 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 29.3337255667 48.9658058833 60% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 96.3076923077 100.406767564 96% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.9230769231 20.6045352989 97% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.15384615385 5.45110844103 58% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 5.5376344086 90% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 17.0 11.8709677419 143% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 3.85842293907 130% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.88709677419 82% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.386934261924 0.236089414692 164% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.11815001082 0.076458572812 155% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.144155050151 0.0737576698707 195% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.29454606108 0.150856017488 195% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.18563979883 0.0645574589148 288% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.3 11.7677419355 96% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 60.65 58.1214874552 104% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.10430107527 144% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 10.1575268817 94% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.73 10.9000537634 98% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.29 8.01818996416 91% => OK
difficult_words: 89.0 86.8835125448 102% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 10.002688172 85% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.0537634409 95% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.247311828 88% => 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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