▶ Your Answer : The issue at hand is whether Techonology has made our children less creative compared to the past or not. This is a very important issue because people have mixed opinions with this kind of topic. Many people think that Technology gives many opportunities to make more experiences, so it allow children to make creative thinking. However, in my opinion, I believe that Technology hasn’t make our children more creative, and my view can be substantiated by the reasons addressed below.
Children lose the chances to think by themselves and to do outside activities.
First, Techonology has led to passive thinking.
In other words, it takes away the opportunities to think or imagine about something on their own and makes them depend on the technology like Youtube and social network service like Instagram and Facebook. This means creattive thinking, one of the most important skills in entire of life, cannot be developed.
To illustrate, my baby cousin is an great example. When my cousin was seven years old, my aunt asked him to read Cinderalla and asked him to draw some picture of part from the story. Her purpose was to make him imagine the many things that he had never seen like shoes that made of glass. But he totally acted unexpectedly.
After deciding which part to draw, he brought his father’s phone and started to search a video clip of Cinderalla. My aunt was really surprised and thought that technology is not always good for our life and it restricts their creativeness.
Accordinly, I disagree with the statment.
Second, it has made our children prefer indoor activities to outdoor ones.
That is to say, children should play with the nature and in the nature, but after technology developing, they do not want to go outside to play. Instead of playing at the playground or park with friend or family, they want to go PC Room or stay home with a smartphone and a computer.
In one study that mainly researched by Kim-Hyunyoung, psychologist of children delvelopment, it shows that the 80 percent of the teenagers who were borned in 2000s spend their vacation doing indoor activities like playing computer games or watching youtubes at home. Compared to this, the teenagers who were borned in 1990s usded to spend their holiday playing in a park, at a beach, or near a mountain.
Thus, I think that the Technology -
In sum, development of Technology is not good to our children aspect of creativeness because it restricted the positive thinking and less possiblities to enjoy the outdoor activities.
For these reasons, I disagree with the statment above.
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