Sunday, September 14, 2008
The Dumbest Generation
After reading over Mark Bauerlein’s point of view towards our generation I began to think if I agree or disagree with his theories, but I’m stuck. I’m stuck between many statements that were mentioned. I thought over each point of view and I have decided that our generation is not dumb. We have opened our horizons in extremly different ways then our past generations have and this has made it all seem different. Sometimes it may seem that our generation is falling behind in academics or overall IEQ’s but we truely haven’t. We are taught by our parents and peers that technology is a whole new field to reaching ideas and facts. Teenagers today spend most of their time searching the web, texting, or watching televison but these are not the factors that hold us to being considered a dumb generation. Actually, many of these technologies have been able to expand our learning. Plenty of projects in school require searching the web for facts and information about certain topics. This doesn’t mean that books and writings are being dismissed from our lives it just gives us another resource to fall towards. With having extra resources in our lives we can have more options and in some cases even make our lives easier. The internet really provides to us all in many ways. Sometimes the internet can even be used as an escape from our stress. By using facebook or youtube, we set back and relax. Today relaxation is greatly needed for some teenagers. Some teens now have so much stress put on them they don’t know what to do or where to turn. Everyone has a time period to their lives and no one is forced to work and stress everyday. Especially us, were teenagers were finding our ways to and through life. We learn from our mistakes and we build off of them. By allowing us to rest, think over mistakes we’ ve made and, decide stupid things like what we want to wear tomorrow we can build into who we are and who we want to be. Many people may say that those are few of the reasons that cause us to be the dumbest generation. Yet I believe that our generation is just like any other with the support of technology and entertainment.
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I think you made some good points in your blog and agree with you that we are not the dumbest generation. We just have something new added to ours, the Internet.
I really liked how you said that teenagers do use the internet for recreational activities, but at the same time our generation is good at hunting down research as well. I would even take it a step further as to say the generations that can't keep up with technology are the dumbest, because they are missing out on one of the most useful tools. We must always be open to change and I feel that our generation can use the internet on so many levels like you said.
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