Full disclosure: I belong to Bauerlein's much-maligned 'Millennial' generation—which he defines as those born from 1980 to 2000—but I am hardly what he terms a 'digital native.' I did not grow up with a cell phone or the Internet, nor did my family own a computer until I was in eighth grade. Driver Yamaha Psr S700 Manual. Evinrude Manual Fuel Pump there. I am therefore sympathetic to certain of Bauerlein's concerns: * That the round-the-clock invasion of a teen's day by social-media devices—cell phones, personal computers, and their ilk—has all but obliterated the sanctuary once enshrined in the family dinner hour. * That certain technology hyped in schools (a laptop for every student, for instance) may not be as beneficial as more traditional educational investments. * That the nature and speed of reading and writing on the Web may discourage long-form reading and critical-thinking skills. If the Millennial generation is indeed dumber than any before it, writes Bauerlein, many people and institutions must share the blame. Nandpro 2.0d. Let's start with the pop-media image of the overworked yet overachieving American high-school student—largely a myth, in Bauerlein's view.
To hear him tell it, the kids are most decidedly notalright. Instead, they score abysmally low on knowledge tests, shun reading for pleasure in higher numbers than ever before, devote little time to homework, and enter college ill-prepared in such basic arenas as writing and math. But the book never quite delivers on Bauerlein's promise of explaining how or why the digital age endangers our future. Bauerlein lays much of the liability for the robust leisure habits and intellectual torpor of the Millennials squarely at the feet of the U.S.
