Technology has made children less creative than they were in the past.

[Channelee]

Good morning, Kitos. Thanks so much for reviewing my essay.
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Do you agree or disagree with the following statement?
Technology has made children less creative than they were in the past.

These days, technology is involved in every aspect of our lives. With the advance of technology, children’s toys are becoming much fancier now. Meanwhile, as far as I think, children’s creation ability becomes less than before.

To begin with, toys are now made too vivid to leave much room for children imaging. As we know, imagination is the fundamental of creation. Once we lose the ability of imaging, we lose the ability of creating. Take the toy kitchen for example. Except for the size, those mini kitchens possess all details, which a genuine kitchen has, such as: stove, dish washer, garbage bin, microwave, kitchen towel, cutting board, even salt and pepper shaker. As for the “food”, we can barely count on our eyes to distinct if the bread or apple is real. These lively toys deprive the room of imagination from children. Children just purely imitate their parents’ cooking when they are busy with those toys.

Moreover, plenty of so-called high tech toys put children into position as a passive receptor, especially the toys aim at preschoolers. Those toys assert that their high tech feature can promote children’s intelligence. As a matter of fact, those toys can only teach the young children such things that a circle is the letter “o”. When a child no longer think a circle as a pizza or an apple, but the letter “o”, their imaging ability is taken away. On the other side, this kind of toy brings themselves too much abstract academic knowledge more often than not. At this age, a child is supposed to feel the world with his or her heart. It is much more meaningful for them to watch ants parade or fish swimming, or jump in a pile of leaves in the fall, other than staying together with letters and numbers.

Last but not least, lots of traditional toys seem simple, but contain a big wisdom. Nowadays, we can easily find a variety of sets of Mega blocks in any toy store, such as the boat set, the police car set, and the castle set. As long as the children complete assembling all pieces together, they lose interest at them, and will ask for the next set. Contradicting the fancy Mega blocks, the classic wood blocks are more capable of boosting children’s imagination ability. Every time they play, they make a different stuff whatever in their mind with the same blocks, such as: car, bridge, and house.

In a world, high techs are not always good. In my opinion, the technology made a negative impact on children’s creation.

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