8 reasons why this is the dumbest generation

[ymarkov]

Author Mark Bauerlein aims to provoke in his new book, "The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future" (Tarcher/Penguin). Do you agree? Take a look at eight reasons the Emory University English professor gives to ''not trust anyone under 30''...

Reason 6. They don't store the information

"For digital immigrants, people who are 40 years old who spent their college time in the library acquiring information, the Internet is really a miraculous source of knowledge,'' Bauerlein says. "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.''

Comments

[aphar.livejournal.com]

sounds like the usual old fart's drivel about the youngsters.

[ymarkov.livejournal.com]

But isn't the term "digital immigrants" kinda cool?

[aphar.livejournal.com]

I am wary of "cool terms". :-)

[dlevey.livejournal.com]

And how is reason 6 any different than those who use libraries not to gather information to bring home but to store information? I've not yet read the book, but so far I don't see anything compellingly different here.