As an English professor at Emory University , Mark Bauerlein wrote a book The dumbest generation (source 1) in which he justifies his point of view on the difference of intelligence between both past and current generations .Bauerlein cites coutless statistics to help support his argument by stating that a ridiculously large number of students are dropping out of school both high school and college .He also claims that these days are no longer the same and that many values and traditions are no longer being knowledge. Bauerlein claims that the young adults have evolved into a generation that no longer cares and has different priorities than the past ones . It is also said that many people think that the rapid change is due to the technology that has advanced over the years .
Technology opens the door to opportunities that past generations didn't have and that have expanded our abilities over a period of time . Andrea Lunsford , also a professor at a university , is quoted in Clive Thompsons article (source7) “The new literacy”saying that we
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are ,”in the midst of a literacy revolution the likes of which we haven't seen Greek civilization,” In Thompsons article he also said that technology helps people create writings and many other things that cannot be done without the existence of technology . These creative writings can help people understand more about what is going on in the world or help us understand different types of cultures and points of views from many people. These types of information is what can help our intelligence increase and have more experience over the years . It is true that the information given to us today influences young Americans , this does not mean it has to be in a negative way , everybody has their own choices and while some may choose to do the wrong thing , others want to be educated and have a better future .As Mizuko Ito said in the article (source3) “Living and learning with new media “ some young people choose to be “messing around “ with new forms of media like Instagram ,Face book and other ways of media that are not very effective and distracting us from learning . While others “geek out “ and do many things that can make their intelligence boost up . Virtual activity allows some students to understand and unlike schools gives the student their full attention so the student understands everything . This media can be a healthy competition for our students because it can give them the advantage of learning to do something without experience. For example, this form of education can be demonstrated in video games . Steven Johnson, author of (source 6) “Your mind on video games” talks about proven facts of players learning many quick action situations for example when playing with virtual weapons and” improving hand-eye coordination “ believe it or not video games can teach you to do things like driving or how to handle a weapon maybe not as much as having the experience , but it does teach you the concept and helps us understand that we can do all this great things with technology . Even though Bauerlein argues that, “56 percent of 18 to 29 year olds possessed low knowledge levels, while only 22 percent of 50 to 64 year olds did” a study was made that did proved this theory to be true .
People that live more and have more experience in things will always be wiser and smarted due to the time they have lived a the information they have retained . This information is the one we have not experienced but that does not mean that we are a “dumb generation,” it actually just states that younger generations are becoming smarter over time because we now can learn for the mistakes that older generations have made , for example we are now learning more in schools about not having any sexual activities while we are young and ways to take care of yourself so that we don't get any type of infection or anything that can change our life completely like teen pregnancy or HIV
. Technology has improved over the years and it is making a much more successful society .This can be a key to making our future generations smarter . How can we be so ignorant to see that the younger generation has actually helped to fix and better the technology that our older generations have created for us to use? The younger people have actually been more exposed to this technology because they were born in this time of evolution , therefor they know how to handle it a better way . Without the genius inventors of our generation to create the technology, a better future would not exist . Technology has showed why we are the smartest species in the world and as time passes we are finding more solutions to problems and ways to make our world a better place .
This article talks about “Growing Less Dumb”. The author, Eileen Brenoff writes when she got older there are some things changed. First, when she was younger, she worried a lot. Now, she is not worried than before. Second, she scared to make decisions. When she was growing up, she learned that making own decisions. In addition,
Technology is making it easier for us to keep in contact with one another and making it possible for us to share ideas and get feedback from others about our readings and learnings when we are not right next to each other. Some may not have the availability to books that they need and although technology is sometimes miss leading, if you do put time in you can usually find what you want. Technology is taking making life easier for us, which is a good thing but this being true is also the reason I agree with
According to Johnathan Malesic, in his article “How Dumb Do They Think We Are?” students think that professors are ignorant at not being able to tell if their paper is plagiarized or not. Some students believe that they can get away with plagiarizing a paper, but they do not realize that professors know how to search and locate authors’ work online and identify a plagiarized essay. In the beginning, Malesic talks about how he was completely insulted when he found his first plagiarized paper, but little did he know that this would surely happen again. Other teachers had told him that this would not be the final time; as a matter of fact, they said to expect it to happen almost every time he assigned a paper. Sure enough they were right. He mentions how he wishes that students would use their taught knowledge to do their papers and put an author’s work into their own words. He ends the article with how he believes that a person who plagiarizes a paper is not really a student at all (87).
“The Dumbest Generation” is a title no group of people want to behold. Nonetheless, people under age thirty have been given this belittling title. To those who go off questions about obsolete general knowledge rather than the ability to take in and evaluate knowledge, this title may seem quite fitting. However, Millennials aren’t quite as dull as they’ve been perceived to be. The ability of Millennials to absorb information, rather than know general facts, and their use of contemporary technology as reading and writing resources has proven that they are quite an innovative and bright generation.
In “Cultural Illiteracy,” a preface to the novel The Dumbest Generation, Mark Bauerlein critically evaluates how technological distractions affect the younger generation. Bauerlein states that “digital diversions” are cutting the younger generation off from culturally enhancing mediums and is in turn making the younger generation less intelligent. Though Bauerlein is correct about the increase of peer pressure due to technology, he is mistaken about how technology is making the younger generation unintelligent.
Has the modernization of the twentieth century made us smarter or has it hindered our brains to think in 140 characters or less? In the article, “Brain Candy”, Steven Johnson argues that the “steady upward trajectory” in global I.Q scores is due to what we thought was making us dumber: popular culture. However, this romantic critic is too rooted in his technology- age ideology. While Johnson claims that everything bad is good for us, family themed-programing is being replaced by fabricated reality television shows and channels specialized in selling, video games are hindering our reading and writing skills, and books are becoming things of the past. Johnson insists that popular culture is making us smarter, but is stupid the new smart?
We live in a time where technology is at the center of our society. We use technology on a daily basis, for the simplest tasks, or to aid us in our jobs, and don’t give a second thought to whether these tools are actually helping us. Writers such as Kevin Kelly and Clive Thompson argue that the use of technology actually helps us humans; whiles writers such as Nicholas Carr argue that technology affects people’s abilities to learn information negatively.
Mark Bauerlein argues that this generation is the dumbest generation. This is false, our generation is not the dumbest. Today in the 21st century we are giving more resources and technology to help us succeed in life. Times have changed and so does technology. Just because this generation utilizes our resources, that makes us the dumbest. Does that sound
It seems like parents and grandparents are always telling their children, “back in my day we worked harder, studied harder, were more thankful” and so on. Believe what you will about your peers, but what if your parents are right? What would happen to the world if each generation continually got lazier and less intelligent, but continued to procreate? That is the basis of the plot of Idiocracy, a futuristic film where this degradation of society has already occurred by the year 2505.
...of getting them an actual book knowing that it would only sit there. According to Andrea Lunsford, 38 percent of writing takes place outside of a classroom. She also said that we are in the midst of a literacy revolution. This generation has more access to knowledge than anyone ever has. This generation is in for something great. There might be evidence why Generation ‘Y’ is the smartest but with the ignorance of facts, by choice, and the lack of education, Generation ‘Y’ is considered to be the dumbest generation.
The author utilizes various articles that target Generation Z in a negative manner, such as “Is Google Making Us Stupid?”, “The dumbest Generation: How The Digital Age Stupefies Young American and Jeopardizes Our Future” and “Alone Together”, revealing that this current generation is frowned upon by researchers as well as older generations, labeling them as “internet hungry screenagers with nothing but addiction to social media”. She use that as a backbone to older gen.’s non-stop complaints about gen. Z. She uses various opinions of successful CEOS and researchers to prove why people should put faith in gen.
believe that over time, the generations got less and less intelligent and more involved with
For example, people are still growing in their 20s. They are figuring out how to deal with stress and their brains are not fully developed says Kathryn Tyler in the article The Tethered Generation. Millennials know that they still need guidance just like everyone does from time to time. The millennial generation is not perfect and makes mistakes, just as previous generations have. Everyone appreciates time off to have time to enjoy life, while working hard to pay bills. “Elspeth Reeve said in 2013 It’s like doing a stud on toddlers and declaring those that have been born since 2010 are Generation Sociopath: kids these days pull your hair, pee on the walls, throw full bowls of cereal without even thinking if the
Firstly, technology has made life easier for human kind in terms of education and work. Ever part of people’s daily lives is linked to technology in one way or the other. It just makes life easier and things quicker. Technology advances make people see how processes can be made actively and efficiently (Lynda Moultry Belcher, n.d.). For instance, by technological improvements of computers, nowadays, education has greatly enhanced. Students are able to learn and take exams by sitting and home and simply using their laptops or computers. This could highly help disabled people, children who live very far away from any school and who are living temporarily abroad. Other than homeschooling, nowadays technology ...
...many benefits for us, but it is not really needed all the time. Maybe in some situations for people technology is needed every day in their lives. But the fact is that people don’t really need all these new gadgets, they didn’t have all of this kind of stuff back in the day, and they still mad it through. Education is being helped by technology and sometimes just giving the student the answer. Later on though it can affect the student when a more difficult situation comes, they will not know what to do.