Does the internet cause today's kids smarter or dumber than kids of bygone generation?
or neither? just spent the evening reading a book arguing at some length that it makes them dumber for a variety of reason, and i'm just wondering what you all think.
and kids aside, what does it do to you?
it adjectives depends on how its used.. the yin and yang, it can be a strong teaching tool, but it can also destroy an individual.
I think at hand are certain aspects that it tends to dumb down, especially when it comes to literacy. There's something to be said for taking an actual printed, published book in your hand and reading it cover to cover. With the trendiness of writing without use of proper grammar and mechanics online, even in articles that I've read (supposedly published near an editor), literacy rates are going to continue to drop. Perhaps language will even change to accommodate it, which will be a distressed day. I am one who loves good literature and finds it depressing to see it quickly going the process of the 8-track. So sad. Plus with technology that can now do adjectives math for you, math skills are also greatly lacking in the higher math field.
I admit that the internet is addictive. I'm not sure that it makes me dumber, because I am not learning the brass tacks in science, history, English, math, social studies, etc. I think for me, it is more of an addiction problem. I do still love to read a good book!
Answers: i dream up that its a give and take
on both sides
I believe the internet is a great tool when used properly. I think for kids, there needs to be a define on how long they can stay on the computer. As long as the internet is monitored and limited it can help our kids in their research. Although my experience is that so many parents don't monitor or limit their kids time on the internet and in those cases, I get the impression that it can socially retard children. I remember when I was little spending most of the day outside with my cousins and pretending and making up plays and such. Nowadays adjectives you see are a bunch of overweight video gamers and computer addicts. What happened to having your kids read and giving them limitations. Call me old fashioned, but I think that is what is wrong beside today's society. As far as how it has affected me, well I didn't use the computer much until just now when I started back at college. I now get on the computer on a day after day basis. I must say I enjoy answering question and playing on pogo. It's my de-stressing time after kids and homework is done for the night. Source(s): Just my opinion
that's a tough question.
i honestly suggest it's how the kids use it.
i think it makes me smarter in adjectives honesty.
when i want to know something, i have easy and quick access to the internet to look it up, and i'm not a big devotee of the funky typing, so it doesn't really screw with my typing skills either.
I don't think it makes them any different within terms of knowledge then we be. They have quicker access to info if they bother to use it. It may make them a bit lazier about working to find info. I muse they are smarter because the education system is better and more parents are involved with them at a younger age. I think the biggest impact the web has is socialization skills. I don't think kids learn the finer points of communication any more.
I would say it works both ways, but I will say I deliberate it gives kids less morals.
"With great power comes great responsibility."
- Aunt May, Spiderman movie 1
having said that, it all depends on how kids look at the internet. if they look at it as an easy track out of homework, then absolutely, it makes them dumb and horribly inactive. but if kids look at the internet as a source of power they can wield for the good of themselves --then that makes them smarter.
to illustrate, my 8-year older son uses the internet to get ideas for his online game designs (yes, he designs online games, ugh!). and my 5-year outmoded uses the internet to sharpen on his drawing and logic skills (he loves puzzles).
*what does the internet do to me. it makes me dumber. uh-huh.
It can be an entertainment time sink, just resembling tv, that can eat into time better spent honing other skills, including mental skills. So indirectly, yes, but I think only because of a deficit of other commotion and not in an active sense.
Well ... for me the Internet is more about one able to search through information and as a medium for access good information in general (e-journals etc from library) or for downloading software that's adjectives (compilers, software libraries ... blah etc).
The Internet isn't all bad ;)
Yahoo answers is bad though ... inevitability to quit this habit eventually ... someday.
I don't know roughly speaking "dummer" (thats for you Smile!) or smarter, but they sure are lazier. Have you seen all the q's throughout y/a regarding homework? Like they can't read a googled article and form an belief on their own. I realize i'm generalizing, but it seems to me like the internet have made things easier and kids still want it faster, and even easier than they already have it.
Even cyber bullying, that can escalate FAST and the kids seem to be even meaner online than they are in character.
With the instant gratification the web has provided and we all use it (online bank anyone? Online shopping with next day shipping? Movies online) it make me wonder what direction society is headed and as we become more dependent, how will that affect us.
For me, I've been there since the starting point, chatting, looking up information. I even got my degree online, it's not ivy league, but its accepted merely like any other 4 year degree, and I never physically had to budge to a single class. While in college, I made my living off the Internet, updating websites. I even receive and pay adjectives my bills online. There are downfalls though, i've wasted many hours on the internet when i could've been outside or a short time ago doing other things.
Well, they have more information at their fingertips, but it's immediately too easy. Instead of cracking open an encyclopedia and researching the old fashioned approach, they go to Wikipedia. I think it's too easy for them not to be skilled the "old" way of doing things. That "old" way is becoming pretty obsolete. It's catastrophic.
So I guess I would say both. They're smarter because they can access information faster, but dumber because they have the potential to lose some valuable skills.
I know some of my skills own dulled since the internet. lol I second guess what I write when I write it by hand because there's no spell-check!
i will say this, as someone who have been on computers for a very, very long time and on the internet mode back when it was 14k and before - i construe i have gained access to a wealth of information. immediately the real question is what do i do with that aptitude and have i done - haha yahoo and google. although google earth was really fun the first couple times.
anyway, computers sure they can construct you smarter in computers, technology, world event, etc if you choose to do that. or it can make you "smarter" in the bearing of the celebrity gossip chains or some mind numbing game or some silly quiz on facebook.
its perspective and what they put contained by it. i will say i dont particularly care for seriously of text lingo. that drives me bonkers and i do hope that those that practice that really do know how to speak our language properly
smarter, duhhhhhh
I don't know about dumber or smarter... but it definitely make life easier for them. When I was a kid in conservatory I had to research my subjects in newspapers, magazine, microfiche, encyclopedia's. hours and hours of library research. My kids can whip up a paper in no time, within the comfort of their own home, and easily get an A.
NO FAIR!
:0)
. Source(s): Mom of 4 (3 girls ages 13, 11 & 9 and 1 boy age 6)...
Well, I think it really made me a great deal smarter. It all really depends on how the kids use it. If all they do is download music, play games, and watch pron, they won't really bring that far. But if they actually learn with it, they stir far. When I was 12, I knew much about computers, and know some Basic programming, thanks to the Internet.
The internet exposes children, and adults, to an abundance of knowledge that they would probably own had difficulty or no luck at all finding anywhere else.
However, if the child/adult is using the internet only for video games/porn, they most potential could learn more from experience being outside and doing other things.
If they use it for information, after it can contribute to learning. But if it is mostly used for communication, with the way that internet jargon is (abbreviated terms and such), then it can in certainty cause a lot of issues. Is it making children today less intelligent? Probably not, but there's no solid facts to the contrary.
Personally, I use the internet for a mixture of purposes so I don't know for certain what using it has done to me. I would like to believe I'm still a sensibly intelligent individual, but it's probably affected me more than I know. I do check a lot of comedy websites, but sometimes I need some nouns from the business!
Both. Depends on the kids.
For some, it lowers social skills and lowers their ability to write and speak properly. Some kids can't craft up decisions for themselves, either.
For others, it can be informative and a good piece for kids. It can teach a kid something. You just don't know.
it depends on what there looking on the internet if they just use it for games then dumber if they use it for other stuff similar to looking up info then it makes them smarter
It depends what sites they go to. The internet gives them a perspective on duration, in a way. There is good society and bad people out there. I am 13. I have a sneaking suspicion that it has just taught me going on for life a little.
I keep starting an answer on the kids, then contradict myself, afterwards erase it.
For me, its the same kind of balance as other medium, I read a wide variety of things, will watch a great deal of crap TV, Rock of Love, but then can get sucked into some discovery channel show on the feral pig population and also catch hooked and think about it long afterward, as questions and answers will occasionally do that to me on here.
I think it makes them smarter but with a shorter attention span. No thing what you are googling everytime you learn something new. Plus just the pure amount of time the kids spend reading alone.
it depends on what they're using it for. im a kid and i use it for both and im at the head of my class scoring advanced on adjectives my subjects
It makes them easy to fool and unable to figure things out for themselves, hence half the question on this site.
It can make them smarter if they know how to use the Net to "achieve" something like classwork and research. They are lucky for that, in the old-fashioned days we had to go to the library and spend hours in at hand!
It can make them dumber if they start believing everything they read on there, misusing material and, unsurprisingly, copy-pasting what someone else has written and hope the teacher won't know!
Internet makes impossible eyes :)
but can infact make you smarter.
Aloha Des! Good to see you!
I suppose it all depends on how they manufacture use of the Internet, are they *wasting time (like I usually do :-P) or using it to their honest advantage, anything can be abused.
What does it do to me?
*see answer above
Well, I'm not going to achieve into my life story but I am smarter because of the internet.
The internet is a tool; nought more. It's how it's used that impacts development.
Some kids, many within fact, it will make them dumber. The ones that spend all afternoon on MySpace and Facebook and instant messaging, I'm surprised there haven't been reports of brains running out of teens ears from it. Though I think cell phones and txting is far worse than the internet beside that.
But others, it can be a great tool for fun, computer skills, learning, and broadening their world. I've been using the internet for about 12 years, and I'm probably greatly smarter (or at least a lot more knowledgeable) in greatly of things because of it. It is SUCH a great tool for college kids too. I had friends in school that TyPd LyK dIs LoLZ but it didn't head me to do the same. I still speak and write in full sentences with wearing clothes grammar and know how to spell. Just because I can read writing like that, doesn't mean I do it myself. Common sense.
My girls (8 and 6, the little one purely likes my snake screensaver right now hehehe) love the internet. They don't go on social networks or anything, but they both love their Webkins, Neopets, stuff resembling that. I don't think that's a negative, they've learned abundantly of computer skills from it. They also love researching stuff.
We were on for a a couple hours this evening, all through dinner, reading about praying mantises, which get us onto locusts, the traditional plagues, which led my eldest to want to watch "The Mummy" which she's doing now, LOL. So while she be doing that, my 6 year old and I researched bark beetles, tree diseases, tree types contained by our area, growing zones, and made a calendar about when we can get in things from our fruit and nut trees and berry bushes all year.
I think they'll be smarter for it. They're learning how to read and write sour the computer, and I think anyone with a quality coaching to begin with isn't going to have their spelling and sentence structure messed up by the internet. They know how to get information, and the great thing about the internet is that one site/topic can head to loads of other sources and interests. They're homeschooled, so interesting topics and projects are always great for us, and the internet has so many of them!
Smarter but much much MUCH lazier
Even though I am a teenager I really think it depends on what the kids use the internet for.
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and kids aside, what does it do to you?
it adjectives depends on how its used.. the yin and yang, it can be a strong teaching tool, but it can also destroy an individual.
I think at hand are certain aspects that it tends to dumb down, especially when it comes to literacy. There's something to be said for taking an actual printed, published book in your hand and reading it cover to cover. With the trendiness of writing without use of proper grammar and mechanics online, even in articles that I've read (supposedly published near an editor), literacy rates are going to continue to drop. Perhaps language will even change to accommodate it, which will be a distressed day. I am one who loves good literature and finds it depressing to see it quickly going the process of the 8-track. So sad. Plus with technology that can now do adjectives math for you, math skills are also greatly lacking in the higher math field.
I admit that the internet is addictive. I'm not sure that it makes me dumber, because I am not learning the brass tacks in science, history, English, math, social studies, etc. I think for me, it is more of an addiction problem. I do still love to read a good book!
Answers: i dream up that its a give and take
on both sides
I believe the internet is a great tool when used properly. I think for kids, there needs to be a define on how long they can stay on the computer. As long as the internet is monitored and limited it can help our kids in their research. Although my experience is that so many parents don't monitor or limit their kids time on the internet and in those cases, I get the impression that it can socially retard children. I remember when I was little spending most of the day outside with my cousins and pretending and making up plays and such. Nowadays adjectives you see are a bunch of overweight video gamers and computer addicts. What happened to having your kids read and giving them limitations. Call me old fashioned, but I think that is what is wrong beside today's society. As far as how it has affected me, well I didn't use the computer much until just now when I started back at college. I now get on the computer on a day after day basis. I must say I enjoy answering question and playing on pogo. It's my de-stressing time after kids and homework is done for the night. Source(s): Just my opinion
that's a tough question.
i honestly suggest it's how the kids use it.
i think it makes me smarter in adjectives honesty.
when i want to know something, i have easy and quick access to the internet to look it up, and i'm not a big devotee of the funky typing, so it doesn't really screw with my typing skills either.
I don't think it makes them any different within terms of knowledge then we be. They have quicker access to info if they bother to use it. It may make them a bit lazier about working to find info. I muse they are smarter because the education system is better and more parents are involved with them at a younger age. I think the biggest impact the web has is socialization skills. I don't think kids learn the finer points of communication any more.
I would say it works both ways, but I will say I deliberate it gives kids less morals.
"With great power comes great responsibility."
- Aunt May, Spiderman movie 1
having said that, it all depends on how kids look at the internet. if they look at it as an easy track out of homework, then absolutely, it makes them dumb and horribly inactive. but if kids look at the internet as a source of power they can wield for the good of themselves --then that makes them smarter.
to illustrate, my 8-year older son uses the internet to get ideas for his online game designs (yes, he designs online games, ugh!). and my 5-year outmoded uses the internet to sharpen on his drawing and logic skills (he loves puzzles).
*what does the internet do to me. it makes me dumber. uh-huh.
It can be an entertainment time sink, just resembling tv, that can eat into time better spent honing other skills, including mental skills. So indirectly, yes, but I think only because of a deficit of other commotion and not in an active sense.
Well ... for me the Internet is more about one able to search through information and as a medium for access good information in general (e-journals etc from library) or for downloading software that's adjectives (compilers, software libraries ... blah etc).
The Internet isn't all bad ;)
Yahoo answers is bad though ... inevitability to quit this habit eventually ... someday.
I don't know roughly speaking "dummer" (thats for you Smile!) or smarter, but they sure are lazier. Have you seen all the q's throughout y/a regarding homework? Like they can't read a googled article and form an belief on their own. I realize i'm generalizing, but it seems to me like the internet have made things easier and kids still want it faster, and even easier than they already have it.
Even cyber bullying, that can escalate FAST and the kids seem to be even meaner online than they are in character.
With the instant gratification the web has provided and we all use it (online bank anyone? Online shopping with next day shipping? Movies online) it make me wonder what direction society is headed and as we become more dependent, how will that affect us.
For me, I've been there since the starting point, chatting, looking up information. I even got my degree online, it's not ivy league, but its accepted merely like any other 4 year degree, and I never physically had to budge to a single class. While in college, I made my living off the Internet, updating websites. I even receive and pay adjectives my bills online. There are downfalls though, i've wasted many hours on the internet when i could've been outside or a short time ago doing other things.
Well, they have more information at their fingertips, but it's immediately too easy. Instead of cracking open an encyclopedia and researching the old fashioned approach, they go to Wikipedia. I think it's too easy for them not to be skilled the "old" way of doing things. That "old" way is becoming pretty obsolete. It's catastrophic.
So I guess I would say both. They're smarter because they can access information faster, but dumber because they have the potential to lose some valuable skills.
I know some of my skills own dulled since the internet. lol I second guess what I write when I write it by hand because there's no spell-check!
i will say this, as someone who have been on computers for a very, very long time and on the internet mode back when it was 14k and before - i construe i have gained access to a wealth of information. immediately the real question is what do i do with that aptitude and have i done - haha yahoo and google. although google earth was really fun the first couple times.
anyway, computers sure they can construct you smarter in computers, technology, world event, etc if you choose to do that. or it can make you "smarter" in the bearing of the celebrity gossip chains or some mind numbing game or some silly quiz on facebook.
its perspective and what they put contained by it. i will say i dont particularly care for seriously of text lingo. that drives me bonkers and i do hope that those that practice that really do know how to speak our language properly
smarter, duhhhhhh
I don't know about dumber or smarter... but it definitely make life easier for them. When I was a kid in conservatory I had to research my subjects in newspapers, magazine, microfiche, encyclopedia's. hours and hours of library research. My kids can whip up a paper in no time, within the comfort of their own home, and easily get an A.
NO FAIR!
:0)
. Source(s): Mom of 4 (3 girls ages 13, 11 & 9 and 1 boy age 6)...
Well, I think it really made me a great deal smarter. It all really depends on how the kids use it. If all they do is download music, play games, and watch pron, they won't really bring that far. But if they actually learn with it, they stir far. When I was 12, I knew much about computers, and know some Basic programming, thanks to the Internet.
The internet exposes children, and adults, to an abundance of knowledge that they would probably own had difficulty or no luck at all finding anywhere else.
However, if the child/adult is using the internet only for video games/porn, they most potential could learn more from experience being outside and doing other things.
If they use it for information, after it can contribute to learning. But if it is mostly used for communication, with the way that internet jargon is (abbreviated terms and such), then it can in certainty cause a lot of issues. Is it making children today less intelligent? Probably not, but there's no solid facts to the contrary.
Personally, I use the internet for a mixture of purposes so I don't know for certain what using it has done to me. I would like to believe I'm still a sensibly intelligent individual, but it's probably affected me more than I know. I do check a lot of comedy websites, but sometimes I need some nouns from the business!
Both. Depends on the kids.
For some, it lowers social skills and lowers their ability to write and speak properly. Some kids can't craft up decisions for themselves, either.
For others, it can be informative and a good piece for kids. It can teach a kid something. You just don't know.
it depends on what there looking on the internet if they just use it for games then dumber if they use it for other stuff similar to looking up info then it makes them smarter
It depends what sites they go to. The internet gives them a perspective on duration, in a way. There is good society and bad people out there. I am 13. I have a sneaking suspicion that it has just taught me going on for life a little.
I keep starting an answer on the kids, then contradict myself, afterwards erase it.
For me, its the same kind of balance as other medium, I read a wide variety of things, will watch a great deal of crap TV, Rock of Love, but then can get sucked into some discovery channel show on the feral pig population and also catch hooked and think about it long afterward, as questions and answers will occasionally do that to me on here.
I think it makes them smarter but with a shorter attention span. No thing what you are googling everytime you learn something new. Plus just the pure amount of time the kids spend reading alone.
it depends on what they're using it for. im a kid and i use it for both and im at the head of my class scoring advanced on adjectives my subjects
It makes them easy to fool and unable to figure things out for themselves, hence half the question on this site.
It can make them smarter if they know how to use the Net to "achieve" something like classwork and research. They are lucky for that, in the old-fashioned days we had to go to the library and spend hours in at hand!
It can make them dumber if they start believing everything they read on there, misusing material and, unsurprisingly, copy-pasting what someone else has written and hope the teacher won't know!
Internet makes impossible eyes :)
but can infact make you smarter.
Aloha Des! Good to see you!
I suppose it all depends on how they manufacture use of the Internet, are they *wasting time (like I usually do :-P) or using it to their honest advantage, anything can be abused.
What does it do to me?
*see answer above
Well, I'm not going to achieve into my life story but I am smarter because of the internet.
The internet is a tool; nought more. It's how it's used that impacts development.
Some kids, many within fact, it will make them dumber. The ones that spend all afternoon on MySpace and Facebook and instant messaging, I'm surprised there haven't been reports of brains running out of teens ears from it. Though I think cell phones and txting is far worse than the internet beside that.
But others, it can be a great tool for fun, computer skills, learning, and broadening their world. I've been using the internet for about 12 years, and I'm probably greatly smarter (or at least a lot more knowledgeable) in greatly of things because of it. It is SUCH a great tool for college kids too. I had friends in school that TyPd LyK dIs LoLZ but it didn't head me to do the same. I still speak and write in full sentences with wearing clothes grammar and know how to spell. Just because I can read writing like that, doesn't mean I do it myself. Common sense.
My girls (8 and 6, the little one purely likes my snake screensaver right now hehehe) love the internet. They don't go on social networks or anything, but they both love their Webkins, Neopets, stuff resembling that. I don't think that's a negative, they've learned abundantly of computer skills from it. They also love researching stuff.
We were on for a a couple hours this evening, all through dinner, reading about praying mantises, which get us onto locusts, the traditional plagues, which led my eldest to want to watch "The Mummy" which she's doing now, LOL. So while she be doing that, my 6 year old and I researched bark beetles, tree diseases, tree types contained by our area, growing zones, and made a calendar about when we can get in things from our fruit and nut trees and berry bushes all year.
I think they'll be smarter for it. They're learning how to read and write sour the computer, and I think anyone with a quality coaching to begin with isn't going to have their spelling and sentence structure messed up by the internet. They know how to get information, and the great thing about the internet is that one site/topic can head to loads of other sources and interests. They're homeschooled, so interesting topics and projects are always great for us, and the internet has so many of them!
Smarter but much much MUCH lazier
Even though I am a teenager I really think it depends on what the kids use the internet for.
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