Comments on: The dumbest generation? http://www.davecole.org/blog/2008/12/13/the-dumbest-generation/ Just another WordPress site Thu, 23 Jun 2011 13:31:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: jameshigham http://www.davecole.org/blog/2008/12/13/the-dumbest-generation/#comment-1115 jameshigham Sun, 14 Dec 2008 15:15:18 +0000 http://davecole.org/blog/?p=957#comment-1115 Certainly they're more illiterate today overall and the method of research, say in universities, is to cut and paste, whereas in earlier days the student had to go to the library and research by reading and writing out. The illiteracy of today comes out in ESOL publications, for example, which are now riddled with errors, compared to the old texts, e.g. McIvor. I think there's a good case for saying this but whether it could be called "dumber" or not is another question. Certainly they’re more illiterate today overall and the method of research, say in universities, is to cut and paste, whereas in earlier days the student had to go to the library and research by reading and writing out.

The illiteracy of today comes out in ESOL publications, for example, which are now riddled with errors, compared to the old texts, e.g. McIvor.

I think there’s a good case for saying this but whether it could be called “dumber” or not is another question.

]]> By: dave http://www.davecole.org/blog/2008/12/13/the-dumbest-generation/#comment-1114 dave Sat, 13 Dec 2008 23:44:00 +0000 http://davecole.org/blog/?p=957#comment-1114 Salve Tiberie, That was quick! There is (and I think I'm using the word correctly) a memeplex developing about the internet that sees it as exacerbating the negative aspects of our society. I'm not quite sure how I feel about that, but that more or less anyone in the developed world can stick a blog up is, IMHO, a good thing. The internet may have drawn attention to something else - the crassness of the media and the fact that people are affected by what they see and hear - but that is a different point. I may return to that footnote in future. xD. Salve Tiberie,

That was quick!

There is (and I think I’m using the word correctly) a memeplex developing about the internet that sees it as exacerbating the negative aspects of our society. I’m not quite sure how I feel about that, but that more or less anyone in the developed world can stick a blog up is, IMHO, a good thing. The internet may have drawn attention to something else – the crassness of the media and the fact that people are affected by what they see and hear – but that is a different point.

I may return to that footnote in future.

xD.

]]> By: gracchi http://www.davecole.org/blog/2008/12/13/the-dumbest-generation/#comment-1113 gracchi Sat, 13 Dec 2008 23:36:51 +0000 http://davecole.org/blog/?p=957#comment-1113 Dave I agree- but what's more interesting I think in your last point is that its opened up the web to people like me, who are useless with computers but understand ideas and history and politics and music and other things. That opening gives the web a breadth that it might not have had otherwise. Dave I agree- but what’s more interesting I think in your last point is that its opened up the web to people like me, who are useless with computers but understand ideas and history and politics and music and other things. That opening gives the web a breadth that it might not have had otherwise.

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