Another Naysayer Stirs the Pot | 2¢ Worth

Commentary from a blogger I like on Mark Bauerlein's The Dumbest Generation. He's a pro-techie blogger, and I agree with what he says about the internet being the new pencil and paper. I still think students should be engaging with text, though.

Another Naysayer Stirs the Pot | 2¢ Worth: "Computers and the Internet are the pencil and paper of our time — and insisting that our children can learned to be ready for their future by scratching and stamping text on paper and reading published textbooks, is like saying that children could learn with clay tablets, long after paper was widely used. Computers and the Internet have changed how information works and how we work it. Kids can’t learn this in five-year-old textbooks and spiral notebooks."