Summary Of The Digital Parent Trap

Author, Eliana Dockterman in her article, “The Digital Parent Trap,” exposes the potential benefits of technology use among young people. The purpose dockterman wrote this article was to persuade parents that early their children should use technology at a young age to help them understand better about the concept. She is objective about her argument towards the use of early technology to children. The author dockterman purpose for this argument is to persuades parents and other intended audience that children who adapt to technology have a great understanding of learning by watching it on a computer screen or tablet. The author Eliana Dockterman believes that children who start using technology in school are more likely to remember what
By doing so, children who play video games are more creative because their minds are focused on the games makes them think better. Also, those who play solving games understand the concept better and do better on tests. In addition, to her argument about convincing early age technology is “staying competitive.” For example, a principal Shawn Jackson of spencer tech states that, “Ditto the essential skills for jobs in fast-growing sectors such as programming, engineering and biotechnology.” Meaning that in today’s world mostly every job or career is working on technology, everything is mostly on computers or tablets. For this reason, Principle Jackson convinces the parents that for some reason there child is not expose to early use of technology “they will get left behind.” In conclusion, the author eliana dockterman builds an argument to persuade the parents that showing the young kids to technology have a better time learning faster. Finally, Dockterman states in her argument that kids understand learning better by showing them on a screen for example on computers or tablets than being taught by a teacher. At the same time, children who are not exposed to technology can be harder for them to understand because growing up there going to be using technology most of the time there working on