{"id":13176,"date":"2009-06-04T16:10:54","date_gmt":"2009-06-04T16:10:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/dumbest_generation_professor_blames_technology\/"},"modified":"2009-06-04T16:10:54","modified_gmt":"2009-06-04T16:10:54","slug":"dumbest_generation_professor_blames_technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=13176","title":{"rendered":"&#39;Dumbest Generation&#39;? Professor blames technology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[Mark] Bauerlein, an English professor at Emory University in Atlanta, says Generation Y, ages 16-29, has been shaped by exposure to computer technology since elementary school.<\/p>\n<p>The cost, he says, outweighs the convenience. Kids are writing more than ever online or in text messages, but it&#8217;s not the kind of narrative skill needed as adults, he says. &#8220;Those forms groove bad habits, so when it comes time to produce an academic paper \u201d\u00a6 or when they enter the workplace, their capacity breaks down.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Social networking sites can give young users &#8220;the sense of them being the center of the universe,&#8221; Bauerlein says.<\/p>\n<p>That gives them a distorted understanding of how the world works, he says.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/tech\/news\/2009-06-03-dumbest-generation_N.htm\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Mark] Bauerlein, an English professor at Emory University in Atlanta, says Generation Y, ages 16-29, has been shaped by exposure to computer technology since elementary school. The cost, he says, outweighs the convenience. Kids are writing more than ever online<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=13176\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,111,95,110,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-education","category-science-technology","category-teens-youth","category-young-adults"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13176\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}