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I [B]highly[/B] recommend everyone to watch this:
[URL]http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/digitalnation/view/?utm_campaign=homepage&utm_medium=proglist&utm_source=proglist[/URL][/QUOTE]
I do too. It's a great documentary.
I have had this discussion with quite a few profs and others. Older people see the newer generation of people as flaky and undetermined. I see a generation of people who want to move much faster but are being held back by arbitrary rules and old ways of thinking. The internet HAS changed us, that much is clear... but it will take several generations before we truly start to see the benefits of the internet in the education atmosphere.
[QUOTE=dryer-lint;20168246]Ironic that you're posting on an internet forum.[/QUOTE]
It's ironic that you should be nailing someone for posting on an internet forum.
I do think there are problems, but not as many as they would make there out to be.
My little brother who is 8 has been on the internet since he was 5. This pissed me off a bit because he was acting like the typical moron child on forums and you know, when I was 5 I was playing in the garden with my best friend or possibly playing Jazz Jack Rabbit with him. Now he's an utter addict, he goes on a Eurovision forum every waking moment and talks spammy unrelated shit, the strange Eastern Europeans who inhabit the forum know he's 8. He talks to them on MSN with a microphone and webcam. And he sees no problem with this. He's one the damned children with microphones who dribble all over the internet... Anyway...
The point is, he's a bloody genius at world geography, flags, everything related to Eurovision since his birth (His whole "the 20th century is ancient" thing :argh:). But before he started all this he was interested in maths and could read really young, now he's thick as fuck in subjects other people his age should know about. Common sense, hygiene and not being a total spaz with people is way above him, doesn't understand any of it. Once he had a friend from school round, he sat on the computer while his friend played alone with toy cars.
The internet has made my brother have every social sodding disorder, condition, syndrome and so on ever. In 3 years? This little arse needs it now.
Doesn't seem to ring true for me at all.
Just look at the facebook post.
For the average joe, it does have a negative effect.
We're the exception.
This is BS, they're just complaining that we can get information for free.
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I flitter between sites to check validity and opinions. Nothing new with books.
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