They might instead skip around, scanning for pertinent information of interest… I can’t get my students to read whole books anymore…” (318). Students are not focusing on reading a book from beginning to end. Instead, students tend to skim through and miss the important information which is a negative impact on them. Carr agrees that using the Web so often is having a negative effect on him because he is having a harder time focusing and reading articles which are more than a few sentences. He points out, “When I mentions my troubles with reading to friends, many say they’re suffering from similar afflictions.
Kaylea Maskel March 2, 20121 English 101 Michelle Bush Literary Analysis In Amy Goldwasser’s writing “what’s the matter with kids today?” She argues the mass media view on kids and the internet and technology however she agrees that nothing is actually the matter with kids today. Goldwasser states that once adults and any other critics stop treating the internet as a villain, we all can accept it. Teenagers today read and write for fun, spending nearly 16.7 hours a week online (Goldwasser 237). More than 33 million Americans are affluent in texting, emailing, blogging, and IMing, INCLUDING OLDER AMERICANS. In Goldwasser’s eyes “teenagers have the potential to become the next great voices of America.” Before the written works even begin, there is a bolded response answering the title, “What’s the Matter with Kids Today?” Goldwasser’s response is as follows: Nothing, actually.
The Literacy Argument In the age of text messaging, where words are reduced to nonstandard abbreviations and symbols, many people question the future of literacy. But is text messaging literacy's new study guide, a new way to practice our reading and writing skills? According to a study done by the Pew Internet and the American Life Project, teens on average send sixty text messages a day. When we break this down that's approximately a text every twelve minuets they spend awake. So with this rapid rise in text messaging and it now being our new means of communication, is it hurting literacy in teens?
Mitchell Heyne Composition 2 January 7, 2014 Unit 3 Assignment 1 Summary Response Paper “Wow, this isn’t a bad article” I said to myself as I was reading “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” The point of this article is that people are losing the ability to concentrate for long periods of time, especially if they have no interest in the subject. Some people see this as a mental disorder, however, this is due to people trying to look for a quick fix and not doing the thorough research. I will agree that the way people are thinking is indeed changing, some for the good, but most for the bad as well. Search engines are rerouting our memory. According to one article in Science magazine, we're not necessarily losing our ability to remember things.
Florence Foster Instructor David English 102 11 January 2011 I have chosen to write about Brent Staples “What Adolescents Miss When We Let Them Grow up in Cyberspace.” Staples argue that “so called online communities isolate adolescents and hinder their social development” (241). Which I believe to be true, but the world as we know it, is becoming very advanced to technology. So that would basically leave adolescents with two decisions, either they have to jump on board with technology, or be left behind. Which would you prefer? Social interactive technologies, such as instant messaging and texting messaging are beginning to redefine the social networks of today’s youth.
In Deresiewicz’s essay, he shares that he asked his class a question about the place that solitude has in their lives, and almost all of them answered that they have no time for it. Teenagers and young adults have not matured yet, but individuals teenage habits all begin to gradually dwindle as a person enters adulthood because the person is beginning to take on more responsibility. In essence, I believe that solitude leads a person into loneliness, and that the advantages of technology and social media heavily outweigh the advantages of living a fairly solitary life, and I will prove this. Deresiewicz begins his essay comparing three eras. The Romanticism, Modernism, and Postmodernism eras, and it is very clear that the postmodern era isn’t his favorite.
Week 4 4 Group Dynamics Due: Monday 26 March (a) Read and reference an article or chapter (Internet, journal or book) that explains why some groups communicate effectively and other groups communicate ineffectively. List and explain three important points that it makes about group dynamics. “One such way is through interpersonal confirmation and dis-confirmation.” (Ellis, 2009) 1) This basically says that when people receive good feedback/responses, they feel better about themselves and value themselves more. On the other hand, when a member receives bad feedback/responses, they feel worse about themselves and value themselves less. “A cohesive group tends to be attracted to one another and forms a loyalty to one another.” (Ellis, 2009)
They stopped using Flash to display documents, even though that meant they had to convert tens of millions of files to HTML5. After renewal, Scribd’s pages looked crisper because the documents had come out of their boxes. Readers began sticking around three times longer.” (Bobbie, 2010). Friedman continues stating, “It was fantastic. Even we were surprised how good the
Many people argue that technology is actually causing us to lose touch with each other and reality in general. In Thinking Outside the Idiot Box, Dana Stevens lashes out against claims that watching television will actually make you smarter. Stevens’ piece is a response to an article written by Steven Johnson titled Watching TV Makes You Smarter. Stevens denies Johnson’s statements by saying that watching TV only
It seemed as if the only people who were able to keep up with the rapid change were the youth. With technological breakthroughs becoming more common by people who seemed to be younger and younger, the youth of today’s society thrive on the new products as if their lives depended on it. My little sister, for example, is nine years old and has mastered the task of working Apple’s new product, the “iPad”, while my grandfather who is 75 years old feels as if telemarketers are using computers to track when he is at home to call him. This supports my theory that other older generations are afraid of something they do not know or fully comprehend. I personally believe that since my generation is so well informed and well trained with digital technology, we should actually take the time to show the previous generations how certain things work, help them and do away with that primal fear that many of them have.