Aspects of what is to be considereed "smart" can be determined through environment. For instance, some people might be street smart opposed to book smart due to their lives atmosphere. Also we may not know as much about some of the education he was exposed to but we do distinguish other varieties of education.
Technology has been an influence as Bauerlein calls "go-go-go digital age" but I don't feel it is disastrous as he declares. In some ways he is correct that we don't use technology for complete education. But as his statement says "social life is powerful temptation". But this is our way of connecting with people.
I feel technology doesn’t influence everyone like he thinks, there are still intelligent people I know and it has to do with nature and nurture (how your raised and your genetics). Also I believe children are getting even smarter in this generation because learning is becoming fun! For instance, Dora the explorer teaches children Spanish and is interesting to them.
Intelligence is measured in multiple perspectives just because people do now EVERYTHING doesn't mean they are not intelligent; it just means that some things are not interesting to them so they don't bother to learn the material. For example, I hate math so therefore I am terrible in math and it simple doesn’t interest me. But on the other hand I find anatomy interesting and excel in the subject.
He states that we want to find the easy way out, the environment we are subjected to show us that we can find ways to make things easy to please us and achieve things easy more and more. By being shown these things teaches us through performing model or repeating the behavior we are shown.
If he thinks our generation is lazy where did it come from, who taught us to be that way? We learn from others behaviors. If they wonder why we don't know some stuff it is because we were never taught to retain info, or that it is necessary to know certain things in order to be considered "smart".
I feel as if he is saying you’re only smart if we know everything, and it is rare to do so considering not everyone is a genus!
What a good point! Nurture vs. Nature, I totally agree with you. The extent to how 'dumb' our generation deffinitely relies on how each person was raised!
ReplyDeleteI think nature vs nurture plays a very significant role in this, Everyone is different and everyone is brought up with certain ideas that they agree with and how they act. I do think though that technology is allowing for the next generation to be smarter. The Dora the Explorer example is perfect. How is it that if we are so dumb kids under the age of 10 can speak spanish with no spanish heritage.
ReplyDeleteI think its foolish to blame kids for being "dumb" in the first place. No one person is born with all of the knowledge they will ever know. Life is all one big learning experience that changes each individual based upon how they are nurtured. If we are the dumbest generation in history, then our parents are the worst generation of parents in history.
ReplyDeleteI agree that we are smarter then what Baurelien gives us credit for. I think what he wants to say is that we only want to do what we like or are interested in, instead of doing the shitty work to that comes with life. We all want the big paying job but we don’t want to go through the steps on working our way up the ladder. We all want a degree from SHIP but we don’t want to really do all the reading and writing papers, which just makes us lazy not dumb.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you when u stated "it just means that some things are not interesting to them so they don't bother to learn the material". The classes that i enjoy i am more focused, learn more and get better grades in. Today students are more focus in a specialty topic, which is your major, in what they want to do when they graduate and get a real job.
ReplyDeleteSo would you be more willing to accept a book title called the "Laziest Generation" as Aaron suggested?
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