DBQ

In the article, Declining Student Resilience, Peter Gray states, “There has been an increase in diagnosable mental health problems, but there has also been a decrease in the ability of many young people to manage the everyday bumps in the road of life”. It has come up a lot that millennials do not have Grit, unlike other generations. Millennials come off as lazy or immature in society today. Millennials always have a reminder from their parents or grandparents, “back in my day....” or “you’re lucky, you have it easy”. Other generations give millennials a harder time on how they are performing in a school setting. Some generations believe that millennials are babied by their parents. Everyone has their own opinions about other generations. There are many similarities and differences between millennials and other generations on how they performed in schools. Some examples of how they are different and similar are work ethic, pressures, and technology. These examples come from actual opinions from millennials and other generations on their perspectives when comparing millennials and other generations in a school setting.

It’s reviving it- and pushing our literacy in bold new directions.” I think what the author has to say here is very important and many people should understand this. I feel like technology is helping writing grow in a drastic new direction. Technology has taken over the world and I believe it may be for the better. Why? Well like it says in the reading our generation is constantly using technology. Everyday, everyone's using some type of technology and constantly on social media and when you are on social media what do you do? Well, you're writing or you are reading. For example, constantly, when I’m on Facebook, articles appear everywhere and they catch my attention. I start to read them and once I read one I most likely read another one that is linked to it. Reading is a huge advantagement when it comes to writing, because to be a good writer you need to read. Another example would be Twitter, Twitter you are also constantly writing tweets. When writing a tweet you want to write something that catches people’s attention and you want to be grammatically correct because if you don't you will look dumb and uneducated. So Twitter pushes you to work on your grammar skills and write

People in authority tend to disregard those who and that which does not benefit them, since the poor did not seem to benefit anybody, people in authority found them useless. For instance, Emperor Charles V wrote an imperial decree for the Netherlands in 1531, where he stated that alms should not be given freely to the Europeans living in poverty, in doing so not only does he believe they will fall into idleness but he thinks they will take advantage of this and live their lives based off of alms, and that it will soon lead to all evils (document 2). He states that “beggars and their children will abandon their trade or occupation for a wicked and contemptible life… above all those who are poor and sick, and other indigents unable to earn

We all know that earth was changed through the ages. We’ve gone from nothing to dinosaurs, humans, and wars. We’ve, as a race have used and adapted to our environment to meet our needs, such as food and water. We started farming, using domestic animals, and storing the food. The lives of people of the ancient world were shaped by the geography of their region because it affects the amount of food produced, the accessibility to water, and their ease at which to find shelter.

Every generation is different, and the information that is commonly learned in each generation is affected by the events surrounding that time period. As stated in The Dumbest Generation? Don’t Be Dumb article written by Sharon Begley, the reason why people cared more about politics in 1966 than now was because “politics determined whether or not you were going to get drafted and shipped to Vietnam”. Today, teenagers do not care as much about politics because, although it is

Mark Bauerlain in his book The Dumbest Generation, makes the claim that the current under 30 generation is the “dumbest” in modern history, citing the fact that they “don’t know anything” (Bauerlain). This claim obviously comes from a place of ‘you youngins don’t know nothin’ syndrome, as the current under thirty generation is just as or possibly more competent (how?) than their predecessors.

Intelligence is not based on what one already knows. Instead, it is based upon our ability to acquire and apply knowledge and skills towards a certain topic. In other words, how one will process and use the information that has been given to them. The learning and thinking capacity today’s generation posses is not only greater than those of previous generations but more effective as well. Researcher Mizuko Ito agrees. In her 3-year study she states, “...young people acquire various forms of technical and media literacy by

In his article he talks about the under 30 generation actually being smarter than previous generations. And that is because of technology something seen as a mind enabler might actually be helpful.According to Thompson, Lunsford says that young people “write more than any generation” specifically any generation “before them.” So if we are the dumbest generation why are we writing more, “38 percent of it took place out of the classroom” says Lunsford. Even if the writing is occurring on facebook, through “chat sessions” and twitter it’s still happening, and believe it or not it’s benefitting our writing. Our tone and self expression is evolving quicker and better than previous

Millennials today seem to care more about where to get the information they need rather than retaining it. For example, they know they can access the Google search engine. This shows that, according to Begley (Source 2), “Gen Y’s ignorance of facts reflect not dumbness, but choice.” This lack of knowledge does not prove that millennials are dumb, but that they have access to a lot of information if they choose to use their sources, and since this information is readily available, they do not have to necessarily retain facts.

Ignorance is a choice. Mark Bauerlain explains that "Young Americans have much more access than their parents did" yet, if there is so much information available does one just have the same knowledge as everyone else? Living and Learning with New Media: Summary of Findings from the Digital Youth Project states that, "youth turn to specialized groups with the goal of improving their craft," Does that consider one person more or less dumb than another? No. What if one person's specific was significantly great, but the subject is what most consider useless?

Andrea A, Lunsford believes our generation is not brain dead. She made some studies at Stanford, and interviewed a handful of well-known writers. She concluded that even though the youth uses slang in their text messages they don’t necessarily use them towards respectful people. They know the difference between a friend and a college professor. From youngster point of view she is totally correct, because the youth in fact knows when is appropriate to use internet lingo. It seems older generations always disagree with the newer, for example, the generation without light thought they were better because they survived without light. And that generation argued that they survived without automobiles. Furthermore, the automobile generation argues

One of them being Mark Bauerlein in his book/article called The Dumbest Generation. He bases all of his argument on a survey that shows how “ 56 percent of 18-29 year-olds possessed low knowledge levels, while only 22 percent of 50-64 year-olds did”(Bauerlein 168). This is not a reliable statistic to base an argument off of. Of course people who are fifty and older have more knowledge than teenagers and people in their twenties. They have been around a lot longer than this generation has and have had the opportunity to learn and experience way more than this generation.

Technology has allowed people to plug out and act like a person whom they aren’t when in face-to-face situations. What this means, is that our generation is becoming less socially capable, but what this does not indicate is that the generation is the dumbest. In fact, IQ rates have increased since 2003. This includes countries that actually measure them, like the United States of America (Source 2). It is truly baffling that Bauerlein can make an accusation when the facts, such as IQ scores, are sitting right there in front of him. Interestingly enough, not only have IQ rates raised in the recent years, according to a professor of writing and rhetoric at Stanford University, Andrea Lunsford, literacy has expanded and traveled on an upward swing. According to Lunsford, ‘we’re in the midst of a literacy revolution..’ (Source 7). The creation of

Sharon Begley uses intense language to convey the true irony that as the over thirty generation argues Gen Y is “ignorant to facts”, they are ignorant to the facts and studies showing spikes in IQ and cognitive intelligence. As knowledge becomes increasingly more accessible and at our fingertips each day, why memorize them, when instead things privy to your needs can be remembered? Gen Y are not only thinkers, but doers, gaining them major points in experience and comprehension. “By its immediacy and breadth of information, the digital world lowers barriers to self-directed learning”(Source C). Knowledge is limitless, and Mizuko Ito paints a vivid picture of the wall all other generations have built between them and the sweet enlightenment of what they have yet to learn. Gen Y has broken down this wall and opened new doors for themselves and all others around them. As a new generation is born, a new page is turned into a complete new way of thinking, but it is often forget that this doesn't have to be a bad thing. “‘I think we’re in the midst of a literacy revolution the likes of which we haven’t seen since

Many people nowadays rely very much on technology. Those under the age of thirty are indeed “the dumbest generation”. These people are the dumbest because they were born into the new media world. There is three sources that enhance that the age we now live in, is ignorant however, there is also one source that says so otherwise. The sources are a combination of a excerpts, an article, and a political cartoon.