TPO-09 - Independent Writing Task 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 could argue hours about the positive and negative influence that technology has on children. As much as I understand, I think technology are having a positive impact no only in children, but in all of us. Thus, I disagree with the statement proposed above. I think technology has made children equal or more creative, but with a new and different creativity than they had in the past.

Firs of all, technology is now part of our lives, and we depend on it in many levels. In fact, it is important that children can get along with technology in early age as this could provide an advantage for their performance when they start school time. Technology is a fact they would have to deal with, at school, college, and future jobs, with no exception. Additionally, creativity is not something technology is destroying, but changing. For instance, a recent game called Maincraft became very popular among children of seven to ten years old. This game incentive the creativity of children in matter of space and dimension, improving also their skills with forms and objects in 3D. Today, children far away of being less creative, are using a new kind of creativity that we adults are always surprise to discover.

Secondly, technology today offers a fantastic resource of information and knowledge through internet. It is important to mention, that not all the information we can find and get from internet is real, accurate or genuine, but without doubt it is our first option when we want to have a first approach to a subject of study. Consequently, this source of information also support the creativity for a young mind. For instance, discover other possibilities and points of view to resolve a problem, or a complete new concept about a subject he or she never heard about, and more, can without any doubt improve the creativity.

Finally, the new technologies, like smartphones, ipad, 360 recording devices, etcera, invite at the same time the develop of a new type of creativity. To illustrate this claim, let's consider how children manage to create their own movies with only their smartphones and then uploaded them online, after editing the footage recorded. This new media art is the prove of a new type of creativity.

All in all, considering the reasons giving above, I deeply disagree with the statement proposed by the thesis. Technology now is part of every level of our lives, providing more resources of information and knowledge, and new creative tools to play with. Thus, technology, far for dismiss the children's creativity, incentive that creativity in a new and better way.

Votes
Average: 7.6 (1 vote)
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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...evices, etcera, invite at the same time the develop of a new type of creativity. To illustr...
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...footage recorded. This new media art is the prove of a new type of creativity. All in...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, consequently, finally, first, if, second, secondly, so, then, thus, for instance, i think, in fact, kind of

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 15.1003584229 93% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 9.8082437276 61% => OK
Conjunction : 22.0 13.8261648746 159% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 11.0286738351 63% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 37.0 43.0788530466 86% => OK
Preposition: 67.0 52.1666666667 128% => OK
Nominalization: 12.0 8.0752688172 149% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2175.0 1977.66487455 110% => OK
No of words: 437.0 407.700716846 107% => OK
Chars per words: 4.97711670481 4.8611393121 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.57214883401 4.48103885553 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.82618237918 2.67179642975 106% => OK
Unique words: 236.0 212.727598566 111% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.54004576659 0.524837075471 103% => OK
syllable_count: 684.9 618.680645161 111% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.51630824373 106% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 10.0 9.59856630824 104% => OK
Interrogative: 0.0 0.994623655914 0% => OK
Article: 2.0 3.08781362007 65% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 3.51792114695 57% => OK
Conjunction: 9.0 1.86738351254 482% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 7.0 4.94265232975 142% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 21.0 20.6003584229 102% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 20.1344086022 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 43.6168121698 48.9658058833 89% => OK
Chars per sentence: 103.571428571 100.406767564 103% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.8095238095 20.6045352989 101% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.61904761905 5.45110844103 103% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.5376344086 36% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 15.0 11.8709677419 126% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 3.85842293907 130% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.88709677419 20% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.200008636281 0.236089414692 85% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0671906304584 0.076458572812 88% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0567012107762 0.0737576698707 77% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.119433750226 0.150856017488 79% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0810164749577 0.0645574589148 125% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.4 11.7677419355 105% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 51.18 58.1214874552 88% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.10430107527 144% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 10.1575268817 109% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.6 10.9000537634 106% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.99 8.01818996416 100% => OK
difficult_words: 93.0 86.8835125448 107% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 10.002688172 85% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.0537634409 99% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 10.247311828 117% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 76.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.0 Out of 30
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