Technology plays a huge role in my life and its forced upon me more now that I'm in college than when I'm away from it. Since starting college I have needed to use more technology than ever since our school use a website for teachers to communicated with students. This allows me to access the web whenever I should need it and or want to entertain myself. When outside of class I don't depend on it; I use it when it is needed such as getting in touch with someone. I do think that technology is hurting people today because it can be to distracting. Today apps have ads that will amuse peoples minds as long as it looks interesting and isn't boring but really it is just a dumb game with no real outcome.
"The ignorance is hard to believe ... It isn't enough to say that these young people are uninterested in world realities. They are actively cut off from them. ... They are encased in more immediate realities that shut out conditions beyond -- friends, work, clothes, cars, pop music, sitcoms, Facebook.''
I don't think that people are uninterested in world realities, I think they just haven't realized the world realities yet. Its a phase kids go through now and all it needs is time for that kid to understand their is more to the world than your cell phone. Technology is so advanced today that if people have the access at the palm of their hand why shouldn't they be allowed to use it. Social medias help learn about what's going on around the world now. I can use my phone in the U.S. and know what is happening over in the middle east.
"Lack of capitalization and IM codes dominate online writing. Without spellcheck, folks are toast."
That is all against the person; growing up with the technology I think we taught where "texting language" can and can't be used. If a kid types "idk" on an exam he deserves to get points off because teachers now stress not to use that language in essays. Plus common sense comes in to know its not appropriate to spell like that and look like an immature child in front of your professor or boss. That helps set reality in for kids as well when they mess up once and the person who reads the text and asks why they would do something like this.
"Bauerlein also frets about the nature of the Internet itself, where people "seek out what they already hope to find, and they want it fast and free, with a minimum of effort."
The internet does help in many ways and the fact that we do have access to it so quick and easy is a blessing. He thinks that people aren't retaining any of the knowledge they look up, but I don't agree most people want to know something for a reason and have a purpose for learning it or remembering it. This counters his point that people only use it for when they want to just know something for no reason.
"Survey after painstakingly recounted survey reveals what most of us already suspect: that America's youth know virtually nothing about history and politics. And no wonder. They have developed a "brazen disregard of books and reading."
I think kids do need to learn a little more about history but I also don't think it is right to say we "know virtually nothing" when that isn't true. People take up different interests so they learn about what they want to learn, not something forced upon them from their high history class. That's what I do not understand; why are older generations trying to shape youth to grow up like they did instead of letting them make their own decision.
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