does being ignorant make the new youths of today dumb? Does being unable to remember the past make us even more dumb then the generation before? these are the contrevertial issues discussed about in the passage. I feel that this passage is highly inaccurate in presenting its ideas of this new generation as being dumb, on the basis that we are unable to rememeber and are ignorant towards our history. therefore, i do not agree with this argument.
the passage makes many references to youths of today not having the knowledge of past evvents or hisotrical figures. i feel that this may not reflect our dumbness or lack of knowledge, but rather, or ignorance and unwillingness to learn about the subject. Many youths today find that they do not have much to learn from the past, so do not bother to learn more about it.
the passage also blames multi tasking and the rise of the digital age as a major contribution to our "dumbness". However, i feel that our knowledge has expanded now, with the ease and efficiency of communitcations and spread of information. youths alll over the world today know more in terms of academics than we have ever did before. the internet is an amazing source of information, where we can find almost anything we wish to seek. such ease of the transfer of information has made youths today much smarter and knowledgeable than before.
No doubt, the new Gen- Y has their disadvantages and may tend to be dumb in certain ways. our lack of mental stimulation hinders our creative side of us, and makes us less inquisitive. we tend to be spoon fed with information as compared to people of the older generations, who had to search tirelessly for their information which they wanted to find. efficiency has led us to becoming dumber, by disrupting the natural human process of creativity. As the passage said, our fluid intelliegence has gone down.
However, this generation still has more knowledge and potential toout do te rest. therefore this generation is not dumb, just ignorant, and apathethic
Caleb seow
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I want to agree with your view and want to add on to say that we are just more complex in thinking. We are weighing decisions and doing decisions that are not entirely guided by our parents.
ReplyDeleteI do agree with your point of view that youths nowadays indeed have no interest to learn about the past, just by looking at the number of students taking history shows it all.
ReplyDeleteThough the use of technology help us to gain information in a much more efficient manner, however there are still a number of youths who misuse such privilege given to them by just copying and pasting other author's works when they are asked to do research for school purposes, so it does in some way not help make youths more knowledgeable.
Caleb:
ReplyDeletethe passage makes many references to youths of today not having the knowledge of past evvents or hisotrical figures. i feel that this may not reflect our dumbness or lack of knowledge, but rather, or ignorance and unwillingness to learn about the subject. Many youths today find that they do not have much to learn from the past, so do not bother to learn more about it.
You have a very clear stand and a good understanding of the article. but why do you think youths today find the past irrelevant?
However, i feel that our knowledge has expanded now, with the ease and efficiency of communitcations and spread of information. youths alll over the world today know more in terms of academics than we have ever did before. the internet is an amazing source of information, where we can find almost anything we wish to seek. such ease of the transfer of information has made youths today much smarter and knowledgeable than before.
One caveat about the Internet. With the advent of Web 2.0, an increasing amount of information online is user-generated. This affects the credibility of the Internet because not all information is verifiable. Yes, communication of information has increased tenfold but so must the rigorousness of critical thinking. If youths (and other Internet users) read and absorb all the knowledge online without being critical or critiquing that knowledge, then yes, that ignorance is equivalent to dumbness, like a sponge soaking up any liquid.
I agree with you that efficiency has made us dumber but can you explain why? Perhaps we only see 1 solution to a problem? That provided by technology?
Jayson and Ivy:
ReplyDeleteJayson, good point about independent thinking. I assume you are following the line of thought that equates 'older' thinking with tradition and prescribed roles whereas 'newer' thinking would be more individual and, in some ways, self-centered.
This can be both good and bad. Do explore how it can be good and how it can be seen as bad.
Ivy, the issue of intellectual property and copyright violation is a very real one. I agree that the increased accessibility of knowledge and its media has led to the breach of respect for intellectual property. Perhaps you could think about how technology can be used 1) as a tool for crime and 2)as, like Caleb said, a 'dumbing' tool which makes its users less creative.