Kids becoming dumber

[Xant]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2982899/Are-smartphones-making-STUPID-Googling-information-making-mentally-lazy-study-claims
http://www.phillymag.com/articles/feature-is-it-just-us-or-are-kids-getting-really-stupid/

New generations (born after 1997 or so) are going to be much dumber on average than older generations, and most of it is thanks to smart phones. Instead of reading a book, they'll play a simple phone game that initiates a positive loop in their monkey brain but stimulates their thinking not at all. Instead of learning to write properly, they use lol txt chat in Whatsapp as their primary means of communication. Instead of learning entire bodies of knowledge, they'll Google whatever they need; for example, instead of understanding why and how WW2 started, they'll just Google a specific piece of information about it. And then forget it. Even PC games have gotten ridiculously simple, requiring very little independent thought. The youngsters these days play CoD: 14 instead of Rainbow Six: Rogue Spear or Baldur's Gate 2. And even though the games are so simple a monkey could play them, there's still so much hand holding in them that it'd be insulting if everyone wasn't so used to it. They can't even use computers because they're so used to just pressing buttons without understanding what goes on in the background: OS's like Windows 8 have been moving this trend to the PC, simplifying everything. Now parents are the ones who know how computers work, when it used to be the other way around.

And schools are only making matters worse:

Just the same, I was glad when, for his senior year, Jake proposed taking an English course at the local community college. Come September, he and a buddy drove to the college every Monday night and sat for three hours in English 101 — where they never once read a book. They watched movies instead.

Jake got an A- in the course.

O tempora, o mores.

[Grytviken]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2982899/Are-smartphones-making-STUPID-Googling-information-making-mentally-lazy-study-claims
http://www.phillymag.com/articles/feature-is-it-just-us-or-are-kids-getting-really-stupid/

New generations (born after 1997 or so) are going to be much dumber on average than older generations, and most of it is thanks to smart phones. Instead of reading a book, they'll play a simple phone game that initiates a positive loop in their monkey brain but stimulates their thinking not at all. Instead of learning to write properly, they use lol txt chat in Whatsapp as their primary means of communication. Instead of learning entire bodies of knowledge, they'll Google whatever they need; for example, instead of understanding why and how WW2 started, they'll just Google a specific piece of information about it. And then forget it. Even PC games have gotten ridiculously simple, requiring very little independent thought. The youngsters these days play CoD: 14 instead of Rainbow Six: Rogue Spear or Baldur's Gate 2. And even though the games are so simple a monkey could play them, there's still so much hand holding in them that it'd be insulting if everyone wasn't so used to it. They can't even use computers because they're so used to just pressing buttons without understanding what goes on in the background: OS's like Windows 8 have been moving this trend to the PC, simplifying everything. Now parents are the ones who know how computers work, when it used to be the other way around.

And schools are only making matters worse:

O tempora, o mores.

rogue spear and baldurs gate were awesome  did u play on the msn gaming zone?

[Christo]

reading the daily mail won't make them any smarter though

[Umbra]

“The children now love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise.”


"The young people of today think of nothing but themselves. They have
no reverence for parents or old age. They are impatient of all
restraint. They talk as if they alone knew everything and what passes
for wisdom with us is foolishness with them. As for girls, they are
forward, immodest and unwomanly in speech, behaviour and dress."

Our parents thought we were dumber because we played Rainbow Six: Rogue Spear or Baldur's Gate 2 on our PCs instead of playing outside.

Every gen thinks the younger one is shit.

[Beauchamp]

the best generation of kids were the ones around 2.000.000 BC, from there it goes only downwards.

[Christo]

the best generation of kids were the ones around 2.000.000 BC, from there it goes only downwards.

only prehistorik kidz will get this

[Vovka]

Illuminati prepare populations to reaping by aliens

it's obvious why nobody notices it

[Xant]

Our parents thought we were dumber because we played Rainbow Six: Rogue Spear or Baldur's Gate 2 on our PCs instead of playing outside.

Every gen thinks the younger one is shit.

Yes, they "thought" that because they did not understand those games. Are you telling me you don't understand those stupidly simple mobile games?

Games like Rogue Spear and BG2 require thinking and thoughtful gameplay. They're much more complex than anything you could do while "playing outside." This is not true for mobile games, or even most modern PC games that kids play now.

[Vovka]

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[Vibe]

Kids should be required to play Aurora 4x or at least Dwarf Fortress before continuing their internet journey. That would solidify them as real men.

[The_Bloody_Nine]

A main problem that I see in my surrounding is that many current parents never played video games or had much contact with pc in their youth and are behind time today, they cannot communicate with their children about what they are doing. They see some evil machines that they try too prohibit instead of talking about what you can do with those devices and whats useful and what not.

The only game I taught my daughter so far is Micro Machines 2 via Dos-box, man she's good already.

[Clockworkkiller]

only prehistorik kidz will get this

#lewronggeneration

[Beauchamp]

the only game that taught me anything useful was Typing of the Dead 1

all the remaining time I spent playing computer games is close to wasted - still better than watching tv or wasting it in other ways though. well maybe i got better reflexes, thats why some pedestrians are still alive and with unbroken legs.

[Teeth]

the only game that taught me anything useful was Typing of the Dead 1

all the remaining time I spent playing computer games is close to wasted - still better than watching tv or wasting it in other ways though. well maybe i got better reflexes, thats why some pedestrians are still alive and with unbroken legs.

I am pretty sure there are many games that have positive effects on your fine motor skills and cognitive capacity, solving complex problems, solving them fast, creative thinking, planning et cetera. Also, video games taught me a lot of English, history and geography in a fun way. That said, I have always been drawn to complex video games, which current triple AAA development simply does not develop anymore.

[Xant]

Yes, just because they haven't taught you some trivia doesn't mean they're not making you use many parts of your brain.