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The Dumbest Generation

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Author : Mark Bauerlein
language : en
Publisher: Tarcher
Release Date : 2008

The Dumbest Generation written by Mark Bauerlein and has been published by Tarcher this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Computers categories.

Knowledge defecits -- The new bibliophobes -- Screen time -- Online learning and non-learning -- The betrayal of the mentors -- No more culture warriors

The Dumbest Generation

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Author : Mark Bauerlein
language : en
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Release Date : 2009-05-14

The Dumbest Generation written by Mark Bauerlein and has been published by National Geographic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-05-14 with Social Science categories.

This shocking, surprisingly entertaining romp into the intellectual nether regions of today's underthirty set reveals the disturbing and, ultimately, incontrovertible truth: cyberculture is turning us into a society of know-nothings. The Dumbest Generation is a dire report on the intellectual life of young adults and a timely warning of its impact on American democracy and culture. For decades, concern has been brewing about the dumbed-down popular culture available to young people and the impact it has on their futures. But at the dawn of the digital age, many thought they saw an answer: the internet, email, blogs, and interactive and hyper-realistic video games promised to yield a generation of sharper, more aware, and intellectually sophisticated children. The terms “information superhighway” and “knowledge economy” entered the lexicon, and we assumed that teens would use their knowledge and understanding of technology to set themselves apart as the vanguards of this new digital era. That was the promise. But the enlightenment didn’t happen. The technology that was supposed to make young adults more aware, diversify their tastes, and improve their verbal skills has had the opposite effect. According to recent reports from the National Endowment for the Arts, most young people in the United States do not read literature, visit museums, or vote. They cannot explain basic scientific methods, recount basic American history, name their local political representatives, or locate Iraq or Israel on a map. The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future is a startling examination of the intellectual life of young adults and a timely warning of its impact on American culture and democracy. Over the last few decades, how we view adolescence itself has changed, growing from a pitstop on the road to adulthood to its own space in society, wholly separate from adult life. This change in adolescent culture has gone hand in hand with an insidious infantilization of our culture at large; as adolescents continue to disengage from the adult world, they have built their own, acquiring more spending money, steering classrooms and culture towards their own needs and interests, and now using the technology once promoted as the greatest hope for their futures to indulge in diversions, from MySpace to multiplayer video games, 24/7. Can a nation continue to enjoy political and economic predominance if its citizens refuse to grow up? Drawing upon exhaustive research, personal anecdotes, and historical and social analysis, The Dumbest Generation presents a portrait of the young American mind at this critical juncture, and lays out a compelling vision of how we might address its deficiencies. The Dumbest Generation pulls no punches as it reveals the true cost of the digital age—and our last chance to fix it.

The Dumbest Generation Grows Up

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Author : Mark Bauerlein
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2022-02-01

The Dumbest Generation Grows Up written by Mark Bauerlein and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-02-01 with Political Science categories.

From Stupefied Youth to Dangerous Adults Back in 2008, Mark Bauerlein was a voice crying in the wilderness. As experts greeted the new generation of “Digital Natives” with extravagant hopes for their high-tech future, he pegged them as the “Dumbest Generation.” Today, their future doesn’t look so bright, and their present is pretty grim. The twenty-somethings who spent their childhoods staring into a screen are lonely and purposeless, unfulfilled at work and at home. Many of them are even suicidal. The Dumbest Generation Grows Up is an urgently needed update on the Millennials, explaining their not-so-quiet desperation and, more important, the threat that their ignorance poses to the rest of us. Lacking skills, knowledge, religion, and a cultural frame of reference, Millennials are anxiously looking for something to fill the void. Their mentors have failed them. Unfortunately, they have turned to politics to plug the hole in their souls. Knowing nothing about history, they are convinced that it is merely a catalogue of oppression, inequality, and hatred. Why, they wonder, has the human race not ended all this injustice before now? And from the depths of their ignorance rises the answer: Because they are the first ones to care! All that is needed is to tear down our inherited civilization and replace it with their utopian aspirations. For a generation unacquainted with the constraints of human nature, anything seems possible. Having diagnosed the malady before most people realized the patient was sick, Mark Bauerlein surveys the psychological and social wreckage and warns that we cannot afford to do this to another generation.

Democratization Of Information The Dumbest Generation

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language : en
Publisher:
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Grown Up Digital How The Net Generation Is Changing Your World

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Author : Don Tapscott
language : en
Publisher: McGraw Hill Professional
Release Date : 2009

Grown Up Digital How The Net Generation Is Changing Your World written by Don Tapscott and has been published by McGraw Hill Professional this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Business & Economics categories.

Comments on the transformative impact of the digital age.

The Dumbest Generation

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Author : Michael Graham
language : en
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Release Date : 2001-05-15

The Dumbest Generation written by Michael Graham and has been published by Grand Central Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-05-15 with Humor categories.

Michael Graham has met the enemy, and they is us. Fifty years after the Greatest Generation fought and died on foreign soil to rescue democracy from fascism, the question facing America is Can we survive the Dumbest Generation? Can a nation of uniquely uninformed idiots living in a culture that celebrates stupidity possibly govern themselves? If the question sounds harsh, you havent read The Dumbest Generation or (author Michael Graham would argue) the Palm Beach Post. From the bumbling balloteers of Florida to the crush of Dumb-and-Dumber culture filling the neighborhood multi-plex, Graham sees a nation of people who should be denied the right to vote in any election not sponsored by TV Guide. Graham, a former-stand-up comic turned GOP political consultant reveals what people inside the election business have known for years: In the America of the year 2001, ignorant voters arent a problem, theyre a target demographic. They were the foundation and the demise of the ill-fated Gore campaign, and continuing efforts by both political parties to court rather than shun them put American democracy at risk.

The New Criterion

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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009

The New Criterion written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Arts categories.

The Subversive Art Of A Classical Education

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Author : Michael S. Rose
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2026-01-27

The Subversive Art Of A Classical Education written by Michael S. Rose and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2026-01-27 with Education categories.

The Subversive Art of a Classical Education is a bold call to reclaim traditional education as a radical act of cultural resistance, forming minds and souls for wisdom in an age of distraction and decline In an age obsessed with screens, speed, and skills, The Subversive Art of a Classical Education delivers a bold, timely manifesto for reclaiming education as a deeply human pursuit. Veteran educator and bestselling author Michael S. Rose makes the compelling case that classical education is not just an academic alternative—but a revolutionary act of cultural defiance. Drawing on over two decades of experience, Rose reveals how traditional practices—grammar, logic, rhetoric, memorization, handwriting, slow reading, and the liberal arts—foster attention, discernment, and wisdom in a distracted world. Each chapter explores how these time-honored disciplines develop intellectual and moral virtues now endangered by modern education’s utilitarian and technological focus. The Subversive Art of a Classical Education calls on parents, teachers, and thinkers to reject the reduction of students into data points and rediscover the transformative power of real learning. This book is a rallying cry for those ready to resist the flattening forces of modernity and form souls capable of freedom, depth, and meaning.

Law School 2 0

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Author : David I. C. Thomson
language : en
Publisher: LexisNexis/Matthew Bender
Release Date : 2009

Law School 2 0 written by David I. C. Thomson and has been published by LexisNexis/Matthew Bender this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Computers categories.

Legal education is at a crossroads. As a media-saturated generation of students enters law school, they find themselves thrust into a fairly backward mode of instruction, much of which is over 100 years old. Over those years, legal education has resisted many credible reports recommending change, most recently those from the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and from the Clinical Legal Education Association. Meanwhile, the cost of legal education continues to skyrocket, with many law students graduating with crushing debt they have difficulty paying back. All of these factors are likely to reach a crescendo in the next few years, setting the stage for a perfect storm out of which can come significant change. But legal education has successfully resisted systemic change for many years. Given that dubious track record, the only way significant change can reasonably be predicted is if something is different this time. Fortunately, there is something different this time: the ubiquity of technology. Since the MacCrate report in 1992, the internet has achieved massive growth, and a generation of students has grown up with sophisticated and pervasive use of technology in nearly every facet of their lives. This book describes how the perfect storm of generational change and the rising cost and criticisms of legal education, combined with extraordinary technological developments, will change the face of legal education as we know it today. Its scope extends from generational changes in our students, to pedagogical shifts inside and outside of the classroom, to hybrid textbooks, all the way to methods of active, interactive, and hypertextual learning. And it describes how this shift can--and will--better prepare law students for the practice of tomorrow.

The Novels And Miscellaneous Works Of Daniel De Foe

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Author : Daniel Defoe
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1890

The Novels And Miscellaneous Works Of Daniel De Foe written by Daniel Defoe and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1890 with categories.