▶ Your Answer : Undoubtedly, technology plays a significant role in many places where we study and play. Some people might say that development of technology harms children's creativity while others do not. If I were asked to answer, I would say that development of technology improves children's creativity rather than damages it for a couple of reasons. First of all, children nowadays more likely to improve their creativity through education equipped with many advanced tools. State of the art devices can convey knowledge with dramatic sound and visual effects. While in the past, children had to learn something merely through repetitive television programs or boring text books, now, children can stimulate their imagination during classes. Therefore, they have more opportunities to be inspired and become creative during compared to those of the past. To illustrate, when I was a child, I often fed up with studying, since the contents and tools are limited. So, they are boring and old-fashioned. On the other hand, my niece, six years old, enjoys learning and excitingly explains about many things that he learned in kindergarten in an interesting way,like creative paintings, or computer programs. My sister, his mother, told me that if it was in the past, he might not have been able to enjoy learning. Thanks to nowadays technologies, such as creative and interesting materials, various children become appealed to classes, improving their creative, and My niece also benefit from them. In addition, the advance and spread of technologies let many children have easy access to creative contents. In the past, being educated by high quality materials was very costly. Meanwhile, these days, owing to the spread of technologies, like the Internet, people can utilize these with little fees or even free of charges. Therefore, the more children have become able to take advantage of imaginative and high quality contents. According to an article that I recently read in a magazine, young children these days are far more creative than those of the past thanks to the Internet. They tend to be more mature and express their thoughts better than the children in the past who tended to obey parents' and teachers' discipline and had framed thinking. Thus, this article implies that children these days are more creative than those in the past due to the invention of many technologies. As I have mentioned above, new technologies allow children not only to enhance their creativity through learning process, but also to have easy access to the creative contents. In these regards, I strongly disagree with the opinion that technology has made children less creative than they were in the past. |