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I strongly believe that people of my generation are smarter and more intelligent than our ancestors, while my grandparents disagree with this idea. I see that the present-day discovery of scientific facts and modern technology help shaping our idea of the world and lead us to the better understanding of the world, by giving us skill of swiftness, convenient access to information and fact of nature, and correcting the false myths. Also, brand-new style of teaching allows kids these days to be more creative and confident than those in the old days, as students are allowed to use ask their teacher when in doubt, and join an open discussion in class. While our grandparents spent their free times reading books, played with wooden toys and felt the fresh air outside home, kids of my generation are surrounded by televisions, video games, tablets, smart phones and computers in a closed room. These gadgets, in contrast with book which requires much imagination to build a world from text, give vivid image of the fantasy on screen. My grandparents argue that reading printed book makes the reader think, collect the vocabulary, and analyze the story while flipping through it. However, a research done by Joy Hirsch, the Director of fMRI Research at Columbia University Medical Center, in 2013 shows that “following the storyline of an edited film clip [on the television] that depicts a visual action requires a complex and coordinated effort across multiple brain areas.” This media activates and stimulates the brain. Our senses work to engage our attention and helps our brain become more alert of our surroundings. In this aspect, we are smarter than our grandparents when it comes to the matter of activeness. With these gadgets we develop the ski... ... middle of paper ... ...r own eyes. We might not memorize things better than our grandparents, but we are smarter than them when it comes to creativity and confidence. It is now clear that in many aspects, people of this generation are smarter than the past generations. We have modern technology that provides us a convenient way of living and access to information. With this technology, we are given the correct understanding of nature. We become much more reasonable and creative too. Therefore, I still strongly believe that we are indeed smarter than our parents and grandparents. Works Cited “Flappy Birds Dominates App Lists.” UPI.com. Web. 15 February 2014. < http://www.upi.com/blog/2014/01/26/Flappy-Birds-dominates-app-lists/8271390760147>. “Why TV Activates Your Brain.” Telegraph.co.uk. Web. 15 February 2014. < http://www.theconnectivist.com/2013/05/why-tv-activates-your-brain>.
Imagination does not always involve dealing with realistic feelings or reading books and having to understand ideas in an intellectual way. Imagination does not need to be taken seriously; intelligence, on the other hand, should be taken seriously. Giving a child a book will test his reading and literacy skills. Putting a child in front of a 20/20 broadcast will confuse him. Reading books are meant for learning, not to expand one’s imagination. Children are not supposed to believe that television and video games are bad for them when this addictive hobby only makes them happy. It is only an excessive amount of television entertainment that will truly damage a child’s intellect. Adults, however, understand both how to read and the difference between reality and fantasy worlds and the effects television has on their intelligence.
...ect to the cognitive development of the brain. It gives small details about the normal development of the brain hemispheres and the difference between a child's brain and an adult's brain. White warns parents how they are damaging their children’s' brains by allowing them to watch excessive hours of television. Excessive hours of watching television causes an interruption in the child’s intelligence development, hindering the child’s responses to his/her environment. She states that it is best if parents do not let their children watch TV as a common way to amuse them. She advises parents to withdraw their children from the television to explore different situations by participating in healthier activities.
Carr, Nicholas G. The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains. New York: W.W. Norton, 2010. Print.
Boomers generation, we have helped turn this world into a new age of wisdom; a
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.
Steven Pinker and Nicholas Carr share their opposing views on the effects that mass media can have on the brain. In Carr’s Atlantic Monthly article “Is Google Making Us Stupid,” it explores his viewpoints on how increased computer use affects our thought process in a negative manner. Carr critically analyzes that having widespread access to the internet via the internet has done more harm by disabling our ability to think complexly like it is the researching in a library. On the other hand, Pinker expresses how the media improves our brain’s cognitive functions. Pinker expresses that we should embrace the new technological advances and all we need is willpower to not get carried away in the media. Although both authors bring very valid arguments
“When I mention my troubles with reading to friends and acquaintances --- literary types, most of them --- many say they are having similar experiences” (Carr 315). Clive Thompson also elates some words that Nicholas Carr wrote in, The Shallows, “The quality of our thought, as a species, rose in tandem with the ascendance of slow-moving, linear print, and began declining with the arrival of the zingy, flighty Internet. ‘I’m not thinking the way I used to think,’ he worried” (Thompson 354-355). Though Thompson agrees with neuroscientists that we don’t even know how our brains our wired, so how can we think that our brains are being effected by such things like technology and the
Very few studies have been done to address the issue of how media affects reading habits affects college aged students. However the few that have been done seem to contradict each other tremendously. Some studies proved that excessive television watching can lead to lower reading levels, while another study said television watching did not affect the way a person reads. This seems to say that either ther...
...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.
In The Shallows by Nicholas Carr, Carr argues that technology negatively effects the way humans think and function. He believes that technology can reprogram the memory, mind, and concentration due to his personal experiences, as well as supporting evidence from research studies. In addition, he discusses the “plasticity” of the human brain, reading hardcopy vs. online, writing, and the detrimental effects of the internet on the brain. In the book The Shallows, Nicholas Carr argues that technology promotes superficial reading, alters the way individuals think, and stimulates cursory learning.
Thompson, R. A., & Nelson, C. A. (2001). Developmental Science and the Media: Early Brain Development. American Psychologist, 56(1), 5-15.
Millennials are rumored to be “self-centered, unmotivated, disrespectful, and disloyal, contributing to widespread concern about how communication with millennials will affect organizations and how they will develop relationships with other organizational members” (Karen Myers 225). According to Sharon DeVaney, the millennial generation “were born between 1980 and 2000” (11) and that “The millennial generation is larger than the 46 million who are in Generation X and the millennials are almost equal in size to the 76.4 million in the baby boomer generation” (12) to this day.
believe that over time, the generations got less and less intelligent and more involved with
In today’s society we are overwhelmed with technology. Technology is changing everyday, and will forever be a staple in our lives. The effect that technology has on our children has brought on some concerns and some praises. Children these days have no choice but to some how be influenced by the ever growing technology in our societies. Our common concern has been that although digital technology has boosted children’s talent for multitasking, their ability to process information deeply may be deteriorating (Carpenter, 2010). Many people have a wide range of opinions on if technology is having a positive influence on our children or a negative, there is a vast amount of evidence to support both of these arguments. Technology can refer to so many things, but there are three main parts of technology that are having the greatest effects on our children: video games, television/media, and computers. The modern technologies we have today are so powerful because they attract our genetic biases, that the human brain has a tremendous love for visually presented information. Video games, television, movies and computer programs are all very visually oriented and therefore they attract and keep the attention of children easily.
Everyone says this generation is the future, the people and the citizens of tomorrow’s society. Except if this generation is not educated to grow and progress with the planet and learn how to help it, there will be no “next generation”; the earth simply will not be able to sustain our life forms. This is why science education is important to the future of our lives and our planet. Where if not for the innovation of science and its cures, we would still be living in the Dark Ages where the simple flu would have killed a family, and smallpox and other diseases caused epidemics and panics. Every day science classes are educating kids on the basics and the higher levels of science. Out of all these kids a few are bound to become doctors and research biologist that will help cure cancer, the planet of harmful pollutions, and more. One might say that science was the one that started the pollution in the first place, but as you can see, it has started to help fix the damage it has caused. Also, science education (although thought impractical by some) surrounds our everyday life and is need to understand some of nature’s simplest things. This is why science education is so important in the 21st century.