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Some people think that technology is just an impediment for children to develop their creativity. However, in my opinion, advance of technology allows children to express what they want effectively with digital tools and to develop their ingeniousness by giving vast amount of information.
First, technology enable children to express their imagination or ideas with electronic tools. Only using oil pigments or color pencils and papers has limits. People, including kids should afford to buy all those traditional items, and space and time are also required to use. However, thanks to advancement of digital tools, children can draw or paint without limits. For example, my younger cousin use her father’s tablet to draw her own illustrations. She downloaded apps such as Sketch-up or Photoshop, so she can use a numerous effect of watercolor, oil color, or markers. By using those elements, she can delineate and draw what she want to express accurately and sometimes even more creatively. It it had not been such developed technology, she would have limited her creativeness with limits of tools.
Second, with approachable information due to the internet, children can accumulate knowledge of particular field, which is crucial for someone to be creative. There has been said that if someone wants to be creative and distinctive, accurate knowledge for that area is crucial. So without borrowing heavy books or asking advices to expertise, children can master what they want to learn just using computers. For instance, one of my friends who went to MIT Media lab, the most famous science and art university in U.S, said that he reached all of informations related to science and technology by utilizing the internet when he was young. He got the blueprints of moving products, such as clocks or toy cars and he purchased all making tools at on-line market. Moreover, by accumulating those various informations, he created his own devices such as auto-cleaning machines or robots which enabled him to win various science competitions which required high level of creativity. Thanks for the Internet, he could develop his knowledge and imagination related to the field that he was really in to.
To sum up, high technology, such as digital tools or vast amounts of information by Internet allow children to express themselves effectively or be the master and much creative related to their area.In this regard, I disagree with the notion that Technology has made children less creative than they were in the past. |