No, it's nothing like that. You're completely avoiding my question and your answer has nothing to do with anything. Okay, you're generalizing, so what? What is the point of your "generalization"? How is it similar to what I said? I provide a reason for why kids are having a harder time writing properly, you provide nothing but a straw man about old people not liking how 80s people looked.
This is argument by assertion and you provide no reasoning to back it up, only circular logic.
The thing is that you´re just making assumptions based on observations or guessings. With my generalization I was pointing at you generalizing things. You can´t just say that all the kids are getting dumber, using iphones yadda yadda, but I think you rather mean "most of the children" and not all of em. Alright, I´ll try it again
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.
The average child (I repeat, average child) doesn´t really read books, maybe rather comics. Instead of watching TV a lot, they now toy around with tablets and smart phones. I have no idea yet if that is better or worse for them, since they´re now able to decide what kind of stuff they want to spend their time into. Could change to the better or the worse.
Instead of learning to write properly, they use lol txt chat in Whatsapp as their primary means of communication.
This could actually become a problem, but it´s simply too early to fall to conclusions yet. We´ll have to wait and see if this affects the kids in their grammar and spelling.
They can't even use computers because they're so used to just pressing buttons without understanding what goes on in the background
that´s why there´s stuff coming up like win8: it´s for "casual pc users". I know a lot of people who barely work with the pc and that´s why they can´t really get along with it. For people like us who use the pc nearly everyday it´s a trivial thing, but "casual users" can have a really hard time figuring their system out. So having an OS which is simple and similar to smartphones or tablets makes their work with it easier, they don´t necessarily have to understand it, they only want to know how to work with it and that´s it. Think of it like a car owner who wants a car because he wants to drive with it, but isn´t really interested in repairing all by himself (excessively spoken of course). They just use it for basic functions, not like an advanced working system like we do.
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.
And that´s just a shitty school
In the end, it´s just an article based on one single study. Heck, we also have plenty of studies going on here at our college and 300-500 participants are normal (mostly questionnaires, but often also field tests and voluntary experiments).
I´d get nervous if there were quite a couple of studies saying nearly the same thing, but this article is simply here to incense people and sell the news. One study doesn´t really rattle my bones. And that second article of that mother talking about kids in general also isn´t really scientific, but more opinion- and observation-based. Even the people in the commet section are mostly calling her statements nonsense.
tl;dr: Don´t rely on or trust articles which are based on only one or two sources or even simply the authors opinion; you might have a point with your statements, but won´t really be able to defend them without having enough proof in your hands.
I really hope this didn´t turn out too rude here :/
