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
There are a plenty of fancy products as a gift from modern technology, and they are all designed to fit needs of humans. Some are for traveling, some for cleaning, even some aimed at entertainments. Children nowadays seems to spend a lot of time on technology that are created for them, some TV programs, computer games, even interesting websites, and leave less time to think for themselves. It seems they are always accepting information and not to digest or make it part of their thinking. However, the technology, in fact, broaden the horizontal of kids and, surely, make them more creative, as t...
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Sentence: Second, modern technology provide them a variety of sources to trigger their ideas.
Description: The fragment technology provide them is rare
Suggestion: Possible agreement error: Replace provide with verb, past tense
Sentence: Thanks to the elder engineers and science researchers, our kids can surrounded by those interesting and intriguing stories and adopting their ability of creative thinking.
Description: A modal auxillary is not usually followed by a verb, past participle
Suggestion: Refer to can and surrounded
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