Quote:Not long ago, a high-school teacher in California handed out an assignment that required students to use a ruler — and discovered not a single one of them knew how.
My first thought was to look this up. Guess what? There is no record of this. Never happened. Fucking idiot.
They're more likely to know who won American Idol than who the speaker of the house is? Because I'm sure you knew who the speaker of the house was when you were a kid, politics are
so interesting. Nobody gives a fuck about John Boehner (not to mention that we all know it's not pronounced bane-er).
Your son doesn't know the days of the week? Well your son may have a very extreme case of
being fucking retarded
I love how Yasmin is trying so hard to sound smart. Also, your son spends 6 hours at a time playing WoW? Thats... You might want to get that checked out too.
Ally sounds like that goody-two-shoes girl that nobody liked.
"I want school to be like a
family, why don't you people like each other? Why don't you guys like me?"
Quote:They're used to getting everything at a click.
Mmhmm, it's not because more people are realizing that school is fucking boring, unnecessary bullshit. Definitely because of technology.
People
never talk anymore. Have you ever been in a highschool cafeteria? It's
dead quite in those things. Not. Maybe if you wanted us to talk more, you could stop discouraging it?
You still use AOL? Are you just jelly of us cause you're stuck in the dark ages?
I don't use Facebook, I don't use Twitter. I spend a substantial amount of time on 4chan and I go on reddit sometimes, too. But when that little reddit mail notification pops up on my tablet I like to check it, but I've left those things for hours before.
Quote:They couldn't even, like, read his work!
First, that's a fairly inappropriate use of like. Secondly, I thought that you were picking on kids here. From what you've written these people are adults. Way to stay on topic...
Quote:Nothing higher than a sixth-grade reading level on the home page
Are you seriously harping on this? They say this because the
average reading level of the entire country is 6th grade. This includes adults.
Quote:What they do have, in abundance, is self-esteem — a faith in their competence on- and off-line that’s way out of proportion to their actual abilities. On the Narcissistic Personality Inventory, which asks whether you agree, for example, with the statement “I will be a success,” my son’s generation scores significantly higher than previous ones. Why not? Gerry Hartey, a longtime English teacher at La Salle College High School, observes, “Everything is easy for these kids. It’s right there at the click of a button. They don’t even have to go to the library.”
Isn't self-esteem
terrible? Kids shouldn't have confidence. They should think that they're worthless pieces of shit who will never go anywhere or do anything in life.
Quote:Here’s the thing, though, as we fret about our kids’ online lives: It’s already their world, not ours. Young people have always rebelled against their elders, whether they were wearing zoot suits or listening to grunge. But a hallmark of civilization was that eventually, the kids gave up their rebel ways and folded, more or less quietly, into the adult world. That’s not going to happen with our kids, because their superior technical skills mean they’re already in charge. We’re being forced to adapt. We’re the followers; they’re the leaders. And it’s hard to imagine where they’re leading us, because they’re unlike us on such a fundamental level
Yes, because kids who know how to browse the web have much better technical skills than a computer scientist.
Quote:When you sat at a school desk and recited your times tables over and over, when you wrote out the periodic table of elements, when you practiced cursive penmanship, you were reinforcing memories, creating familiar paths for synapses, literally rewiring your brain for top-down attention. Your children’s neural networks are very different. Thanks to their Internet exposure, in place of steady repetition, they’re confronted, daily, by a barrage of novelty. There’s no pattern, no order, in either the input or the pathways it carves. “You have kids today who start on computers at three, four, five,” says Penn’s Chatterjee. “The younger you’re exposed, the more influence that has on the final configuration of the brain.”
When you sat at a school desk and recited your times tables over and over, when you wrote out the periodic table of elements, when you practiced cursive penmanship, you were reinforcing memories, creating familiar paths for synapses, literally rewiring your brain for top-down attention. Your children’s neural networks are very different. Thanks to their book exposure, in place of steady repetition, they’re confronted, daily, by a barrage of novelty. There’s no pattern, no order, in either the input or the pathways it carves. “You have kids today who start on books at three, four, five,” says Penn’s Chatterjee. “The younger you’re exposed, the more influence that has on the final configuration of the brain.”
I KNEW IT, YOUR BABY CAN READ IS
EVIL!!!
Quote:LAST JANUARY, a young Florida mother was trying to play FarmVille on Facebook, but her three-month-old son kept crying. So she shook him to death.
I remember reading this story. Are you actually trying to blame
Facebook for this? A woman with obvious anger issues and possible mental problems shook her son to death because he interrupted her. She could have been doing anything that was taking up her attention. She could have been reading, and we all know from your article that books are just
so saintly.
Quote:but where can he go online to find out what being human means?
3deep5me
Quote:Why should she pay when she can get them for free?
Wait are we talking about piracy now? It's kind of funny how you complain about our ADD-ridden society and you can't even stay on topic.
Quote:Kids today are less and less able to inscribe ownership boundaries; they hand in papers that are pastiches of plagiarism, steal artwork, words, ideas. Part of this is because they grew up with a different notion of intellectual property: When Jay-Z samples the Chi-Lites, that’s not stealing; that’s giving props! But recent research shows that developing a conscience requires paying — here it is — attention to the small voice within that says, “That doesn’t belong to you.” And who can hear that small voice amid the Internet’s din?
wow ur so deep
And we all know that people
never stole or plagiarized before the internet.
Quote:Tradition, Mark Bauerlein writes in The Dumbest Generation, “serves a crucial moral and intellectual function. … People who read Thucydides and Caesar on war, and Seneca and Ovid on love, are less inclined to construe passing fads as durable outlooks, to fall into the maelstrom of celebrity culture, to presume that the circumstances of their own life are worth a Web page.”
Glad you presented all those reliable sources.
Quote:“It’s a new world,” says math teacher Dean Rosencranz. “But we need to be careful we don’t give up something that can’t be replaced.” When kids use symbols to stand in for emotions, sprinkling their texts and e-mails with sad and happy faces, are they diminishing their ability to experience the real thing? That would explain the rabid popularity of “reality” TV shows in which people screech at one another like ramped-up, Red Bull-saturated harpies: Kids watch and say, Oh. So that’s what feeling something is like.
Yes. All children are shells of people incapable of feeling emotions. We use emoticons because, the last time I checked, people can't see our faces in text chat. The argument that that diminishes our ability to feel emotions is ridiculous and completely illogical.
Quote:In our rush to respond to the chime, the chirp, the bouncing icon, in our eagerness to prove ourselves multitaskers par excellence, in our willingness to sit alone at home and count our “friends,” ironically enough, we’re overlooking solitude’s real advantage: the opportunity it provides to develop what essayist Sven Birkerts describes in The Gutenberg Elegies as “our inwardness, our self-reflectiveness, our orientation to the unknown.” In other words: a soul.
OMG, that wuz so frikin deep. But I don't have to worry about my soul, because it's just a concept.
TL;DR:
This person is completely delusional but very deep.