Summary: The Digital Parent Trap

In this passage adapted from Eliana Dockterman,” The Digital Parent Trap”, the author of the passage strongly advocates the early exposure to technology. By juxtaposing both good and bad possible outcomes, the author indirectly instill a sense that there are more to gain than to lose from early exposure. The author’s passage structure of examining both sides from different perspective, allowed the readers to be engaged as they were able to gain knowledge from both sides. This functioned as an intimating approach for the readers to naturally feel the significance of early exposure. This was effectively established through various literary techniques including evidence, conflict between the current and former generation and dictions. The passage …show more content…
To do so, the author first takes “Waldorf Schools” as an example. The author mentions some of the philosophical principles that this school hold: “connect children to nature”, and “ignite passion for lifelong learning”. The author further provides some quotes from credible person who advocates this type of learning style: “Lcuy Wurtz, an administrator at the Waldorf School”. This may seem as if the author is an advocate for this learning style; however, in fact, this was merely a tool by the author in order to outweigh the benefit of early exposure. In the previous passage, the author poses a question: “So who’s right-the mom trying to protect her kids from the perils of new technology or the dad who’s coaching his kids to embrace it”. The author’s mention about some thoughts against the exposure was just to widen the readers’ perspective toward this controversial issue. The author build up her argument as if she advocates the nature friendly learning style and then completely counter this readers’ assumption through citing, “But it’s not that simple”. The author claims that there are more than what may look on the surface. In other words, she believes that there are more benefits than losses. Then, the author further provides evidences regarding to benefits of the early exposure: “They’re no longer limited by what’s offered in school”. The author emphasis the point that online access has opened a way for independent learning in various approaches. As an example for various approaches, the author cites about the value of educational games. And by directly countering the traditional claims that they are not beneficial(“…did 12% better on logic tests than those who did not”,”..piqued student’s interest in history”, “was directly linked to an improvement in the quality of their history-class reports”), the author highly praises the potentials of