Are we really the dumbest generation?
Well, as hard as it is to admit, I kind of agree with that statement. Seeing is how our generation is now full of the lastest technology and equipment to make things easier for us to do. For instance, the internet, probably one of the easiest ways of finding information on about almost anything there is out there. Students these days do not feel like reading their assigned books from school, so instead they go on,
Sparknotes or Cliffnotes to name a few, to get the shortest summaries of the book. By doing this, the students are not focusing on the important details of the book, but on the breif information just to pass the quiz next period. I honestly can say that I have done that before, but I learned now that in the long run it just won't cut it. Also, the internet opens up a whole new world to young teens, because now they are able to create their own websites to share with their friends. Some would probably call it
addicting. Most likely the young teens rather play on the internet all afternoon instead of doing their homework or studying. And in some situations their grades drop and they are not getting the education they need to graduate whether high school or college. Along with the internet, there are other possible reasons as to why we would be the so called
dumbest generation, and it's probably because students rather hang out with friends, listen to their ipods, chat with their friends on AIM, watch TV, and text message. Like Bauerlein said, "Digital natives, however, go to the Internet not to store knowledge in their minds, but to retrieve material and pass it along. The Internet is just a delivery system.''
Looking at this statement being slapped on to our generation, I really do believe that if the students use the technology offered to them in an eduational way, then I
do think that it will better them in the long wrong. I know that we use the apple macbooks in school to learn about differnt applications, using the internet to find important facts, creating projects...etc. By using them in school it helps us present ourselves in a technological way. And if parents, teachers, and peers can further educate on how important it is for our generation to be well eduacated, then that would make a big impact on us.
Overall, even though being called the
dumbest generation as many reasons to be backed up with, I still think that there is enough time for us to change and make the people of this world realize that we are not the
dumbest but the most
advanced.
