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Matt Ritchel, “Growing up digital”. The article elaborates on the addictive use of technological devices amongst both the young and the adults. The term “dumb” is used to describe present young generation, technology has provided and enhanced advancement in the world. People now depend solely on technology which has made people lazy, highly dependent on technology and has led to less value in human workers. The technological cycle has evolved in this present age whereby it has taken over the world. The article begins by pointing out a scenario of a 17 year old, who should have finished a book but later preferred the digital way. Giving cites of the use of Facebook, YouTube

and other digitals. Researchers explains that the addiction to technology and reverse in manual ways have also affected the adults too. The risk, they say is that developing brains can become more easily habituated. The use of this devices in this technological age have caused a high rate of dependency on the digital world.
They found that playing video games led to markedly lower sleep quality than watching TV, and also led to a “significant decline” in the boys’ ability to remember vocabulary words. Research
"The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future (Or, Don't Trust Anyone under 30)," the Emory University professor of English offers the usual indicators, grand and slight. From evidence such as a decline in adult literacy (40 percent of high-school grads had it in 1992; only 31 percent did in 2003) and a rise in geographic cluelessness (47 percent of the grads in 1950 could name the largest lake in North America, compared with 38 percent in 2002), The research has shown that students do rely on technology now days from a global research , in 2013, China government ministry of education, they provided a statistics on the rate of how students rely on devices to work for them as students. Computers make is so easy to find answers that students barely have to look for them. This may result in them having poor study habits and developing a lazy attitude toward their education. While have an easy access to information may seem like a great thing, it can become a real problem in a test taking environment. Cell phones have made cheating easier than ever. You no longer have to figure out how to write all of the answers down, you can just look them up! Things are not done manually anymore, we prefer the easy and better way, and that is technological means. No one knows what kids will do with the cognitive skills they hone rescuing the princess. If they just save more princesses. According to a recent report from the Center on Education Policy, for example, substantially more boys than girls score below the proficiency level on the annual National Assessment of Educational Progress reading test. This disparity goes back to 1992, and in some states the percentage of boys proficient in reading is now more than ten points below that of girls. The male-female reading gap is found in every socio-economic and ethnic category, including the children of white, college-educated parents. (2000, Thomas Spence) This article dresses the real lifestyle a boy should have. The issue and things needed to raise a boy. The psychological reasoning and effective motive needed. Most importantly, a boy raised on great literature is more likely to grow up to think, to speak, and to write like a civilized man. Whom would you prefer to have shaped the boyhood imagination of your daughter's husband—Raymond Bean or Robert Louis Stevenson? The author throws a conclusion, asking “I offer a final piece of evidence that is perhaps unanswerable?” There is no literacy gap between home-schooled boys and girls. How many of these families, do you suppose, have thrown gross ology parties? One obvious problem with the Sweet Farts philosophy of education is that it is more suited to producing a generation of barbarians and morons than to raising the sort of men who make good husbands, fathers and professionals. If you keep meeting a boy where he is, he doesn't go very far. The secret to raising boys who read, I submit, is pretty simple—keep electronic media, especially video games and recreational Internet, under control (that is to say, almost completely absent). Then fill your shelves with good books.
The first paragraph, the author describes the down use of written text.

“Status update on Facebook” signifies the addiction of people to social media’s. Such is the kind of recklessly distracted impatience that makes Mark Bauerlein fear for his country. "As of 2008," the 49-year-old professor of English at Emory University writes in "The Dumbest Generation," "the intellectual future of the United States looks dim.” The problem is that instead of using the Web to learn about the wide world, young people instead mostly use it to gossip about each other and follow pop culture, relentlessly keeping up with the ever-shifting lingua franca of being cool in school. The two most popular websites by far among students are Facebook and Myspace. "Social life is a powerful temptation," Bauerlein explains, "and most teenagers feel the pain of missing out.” being the fact that we use social media’s and other search engines to do our work, this might actually make these a dumb generation. People are not willing to learn a lot now due to the excessive use and addiction to technology. We move towards the path of advancement, and we can’t go back. (Benjamin James, 2002). But amid the sometimes annoyingly frantic warning bells that ding throughout "The Dumbest Generation," there are also some keen insights into how the new digital world really is changing the way young people engage with information and the obstacles they face in integrating any of it

meaningfully.
In conclusion, from the article, People now depend solely on technology which has made people lazy, highly dependent on technology and has led to less value in human workers.

The internet is both a blessing and a curse. Your students may need some guidance on identifying proper sources and unreliable sources. Many campuses have writing centers that can help with this. I encourage you to try something new with technology next term. At the same time, I also understand that technology has its pros and cons, and that adopting technology in the classroom is something that professors and teachers are comfortable with on different levels and to different extents. It can be frustrating and it can be time-consuming. But it can also open doors to new experiences, new ways of learning and collaborating, and new discoveries in the

classroom.

Source cited: The New York Times article by Matt Richtel: "Growing up Digital, Wired for Distraction" http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/21/technology/21brain.html?hp=&pagewanted=all&_r=0

Newsweek editorial by Sharon Begley: "The Dumbest Generation? Don't Be Dumb"http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2008/05/24/the-dumbest-generation-don-t-be-dumb.html

Wall Street Journal article by Thomas Spence: "How to Raise Boys That Read" http://www.online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704271804575405511702112290.html

Philadelphia Magazine article by Sandy Hingston: "Is It Just Us, Or Are Kids Getting Really Stupid?" http://www.phillymag.com/articles/feature-is-it-just-us-or-are-kids-getting-really-stupid

The National Review: Reprint of the preface to the new edition of The Dumbest Generation
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/227469/cultural-illiteracy/mark-bauerlein?page=1-