Because their teachers don't tell them so
Or because their parents don't check their bedrooms at midnight to halt the instant messaging..."Kids are drowning in teen stuff delivered 24/7 by the tools, and adult realities can't penetrate," Bauerlein says. Another factor: "It's the era of child-centered classrooms and self-esteem grading.''
Or because their parents don't check their bedrooms at midnight to halt the instant messaging..."Kids are drowning in teen stuff delivered 24/7 by the tools, and adult realities can't penetrate," Bauerlein says. Another factor: "It's the era of child-centered classrooms and self-esteem grading.''
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Comment part 1...
I agree. When I first got Facebook it was the coolest thing ever and I was like a mini Facebook addict. My computer broke, and I was stuck using my brothers so I only went on like twice a week, for like 30 minutes each time. Now, I go on Facebook about every second day for five minutes, it’s annoying having to read how everyone feeling today and scrolling down a news feed of people’s selfies. But my point is, it’s super addicting at first and probably still for most people who have it. There are all those games and quiz and games where you make in a virtual world, but the more you spend on a virtual world with your hundreds of “friends” the less time you actually spend with friends and living your actual life. Making a amazing restaurant on Café World can entertain you for an hour but won’t do anything for your actual life. I think that parents shouldn’t control your account or know your password because it’s your friends and it’s none of their business to know your relationship status or who you chat with and what your talking about, although I think parents should makes sure you are not spending your whole life on a social network. For me, I check my notifications then log out, and sometimes I will go on to ask someone something important or for the homework since legit no one ever checks the blog and it’s frustrating when you need to ask someone something. Facebook makes you spend less time on the important things. There are some issues if you use Facebook or cellphones all the time.
There are many studies that the Internet is associated with depression, and other psychological disorder as well as addiction. A study published in the American Academy of Pediatrics 2 months ago states 70% of American teens and young adults that have internet connection use social networks and more than half access the social networks at least once each day. Cyberbullying, child pornography, and privacy infringement our things that children/teens may experience when unsupervised the study says, yet Facebook is something that is your business and only yours. Parents our constantly saying, “Facebook is dangerous!” and yes, if you don’t your its responsibly it can be, but that’s like every other website too. The study concludes, “…Socially unadapted teens who have problems interacting with peers in the real world might probably face the same issues online too.” The study also suggests that Facebook may be causing mental heath issues like depression and anxiety in ‘teen Facebookers’. Gwenn Schurgin O’Keefe of the American Academy of Pediatrics council on media and communication says, “Kids can be insecure in general so when you take a kid that is having trouble with peers and having trouble to begin with, Facebook can heighten those anxieties to a huge degree.” All in all, parents should make sure that there child isn’t always on Facebook and should inform them of the “dangers” or issues of using the internet when your young, but should let them interact with friends.
Since so many have Facebook and have account to social networking sites if you don’t, you could feel left out and excluded. Therefore I think if you are a teenager or a early teen you still be able to have Facebook.
Comment part 2...
There was a study done in February published in the journal Psychopathy that was based on an analysis between the Internet and depression and addiction. The finding were based on depression levels and habits on the Internet of 1319 people between the ages on 16-51. There research indicates Internet use is associated with depression, but they are unsure of “what comes first”; depressed people drawn to the Internet of does is Internet the actual cause of depression. They states their study reinforces the public speculation that “over-engaging” in websites that serve to replace a normal social function are linked to psychological disorders, depression and addiction.
There findings also show younger people were more likely to be addicted that middle aged Internet users, since adults do not use social media site as regularly or as much. Which is probably because parents or middle aged don’t use it the same way as us and don’t understand our reasons for using social networking sites. They simply aren’t going through the same things as us and don’t understand. They grew up without Facebook, texting and social media, which makes everything so much easier for us.
Cellphone use has also been linked to cancer since they emit radiofrequency, which is a form of radiation. There haven’t been enough studies to prove a lot and the RF energy is too low to produce significant tissue heating or an increase body temperatures. Cellphones produce the most radiation when your are calling or texting someone and it is looking for service.
I’m not sure if self-esteem grading is what I think it is but here’s my opinion. I think students need to know when they aren’t doing well, saying “Nice effort” is an insult; if you are not doing well you don’t want to be lied to you deserve to know what you did wrong and how to do better. “Child-centered classrooms”? In my opinion, I’m not sure how to say this, but I think teachers should give students a opportunity and let them sort of do their own thing, which they’ll have more fun with and because they’ll enjoy it, work harder. Like the Data Management Project, it was actually a lot of fun because you got to choose your topic and that encouraged me to work even harder. Like class discussions. They are interesting and usually people don’t judge you on what you say or tell you your wrong, usually. Not everyone learns by copying notes and reading stories which you can’t connect too, so I think that doing more engaging stuff is a better way to learn and teaching should be based on how the students want to learn and what will engage them and interest them the most. I learnt the most this year than I think I have ever learnt any other year because the stuff with Mr. Oickle, most of it was fun.
I will agree with the fact that most teachers give positive feedback to their students, hoping that they will strive to do even better. Truth is, for some kids, they will strive to do better. But, for others, they would take it as an excuse to slack off. It all depends on the person you give it to. Positive encouragement is a good idea, but don't get too carried away with it. Use your words wisely with every student. Not everyone will act the same. For the parents, they should be more observant of what we do in a day. Our parents kinda act like our conscience when we are younger. Parents should understand that kids look up to them for advice. So if they don't do anything about it, they'll assume that they're is nothing wrong with having your face glued to the monitor 7 hours a day. But they should also keep their space, as in, they shouldn't be too nosy. But come on everyone, we shouldn't blame our parents completely for this. We also have to take responsibility for our actions as well. We must develop the concept of self-control, or else, our life is sucked into the big and bright world we call the internet.
I agree and disagree. First with the agreeing part. It is 100% true that so many kids stay up late to play video games and go on Facebook etc. This goes back to my comment on the video game one about Gran Theft Auto Reason 5 I think. Any way it ruins kids lives. BUT... how could parents put a computer in their room if they know it could cause problems? Or have access to computers in the middle of the night? This ties in perfectly with our chapter betrayal of mentors which is about our parents\teachers not doing their job by teaching us(as you all know). But we also can't but all the wait on our mentors because like Rohini said, we also have to take responsibility for our actions. Which is exactly what Bauerelein accuses us of not being able to do. Now to the disagreeing, tell me if I'm understanding correctly, is he saying that child centered learning is bad when he says "It's the era of child-centered classrooms and self-esteem grading.''Then if I'm right, how is it supposed to be; teacher centered learning?
This is exactly what he talks about in chapter 5, the betrayal of the mentors. But anyways, I agree with this statement too. I do believe that teachers use the child centered approach to our generations. This causes us to slack off in class. I do think that what teachers do nowadays impacts the student thinking and way to learn.
It may seem that I’m blaming the teachers for everything but i do think our generation should take responsibility instead of being self centered and blame shift everything.
Concerning the IMing, video games and facebook are like the same thing, people will have their face glued to them for hours at a time. Obviously if you go on facebook for hours that's an addiction and not a good thing because it will distract you from reality and more important stuff.
The other factor student centered learning and self esteem grading is the main point of Bauerlein in chapter 5 the betrayal of the mentors. If teachers are saying we are doing a great job even though we are not that will create some problems, it will make us over confident resulting in us working and studying less. So there must be a balance between being confident and being comfortable. And about the student centered learning which is like what we are doing in class, figuring things out for ourselves. I agree with Mark when he said "When teacher domination falls, some students will step it up but most students will slack off." Because it's all about the personality of the student, whether he/she is independent, responsible or whatever, everybody learns differently. But overall I think the new student centered approach is better than the teacher centered method.
this one is hard to agree with because I don't agree. But I have to admit our generation goes over board on teen stuff: texting, magazines, shopping, video games, ect. and it can be distracting and we can/do do these things instead of homework.
I strongly agree with this.
The grading system has adapted to our generation. The A+ ranging 10% to make us feel that we've done a good job.
And I have trouble juggling all my social networking tools, such as my Cell phone, Facebook, Hotmail and so many others I could write a book about it.
Like when I was in Costa Rica, the only tools I had were a Camera, IPod, TV and a computer that belonged to the hotel I was staying at. During my stay, I didn't care if one of my friends updated their status to "in a relationship", because the Japan earthquake was on every channel.
But back in Ottawa the realities can't penetrate because I'd rather go on hotmail and do my homework then watch the news.
I agree with Bauerlein, "Kids are drowning in teen stuff delivered 24/7 by the tools, and adult realities can't penetrate," Yes, all we do is go on the computer, watch TV instead of doing our homework, by postponing it 'till later, when we really don't feel like doing it. But he is always generalizing and it really is just getting me annoyed. We are given technology from our parents, so maybe they should put a limit, if Bauerlein is worried about our obsessive instant messaging. It's a new generation new ways.
"It's the era of child-centered classrooms and self-esteem grading.'' I do agree with this statement, teachers are just giving us reasons to slack off, as Faisa says. We had a discussion about people trying to suck up or go “You are really good at this but.....” Enough is enough just tell us what's wrong and we will fix it. We are not as stupid as you think. Tell us what we've been doing wrong and we will work hard to improve.
I have to agree with this. We are always concentrating on our social life on Facebook and twitter, rather than doing important things like homework and chores. Parents should have some control on the devices that connect us to the social network like phones, iPods and laptops, otherwise we could be staying up until two in the morning. But on our side, we should be responsible enough to limit he time we spend on Facebook and playing videogames. So I think that overall both us and our parents could be a little more responsible when it comes to this.
Okay I honestly don’t know what to say about this. I can’t say much other then if I didn’t wake up at 6:30 a.m. and checked Facebook then I wouldn’t have known about Japan. I have to agree and disagree I guess. Kids do get addicted but there should be a line drawn when it gets too crazy. I will go on Facebook till I go to bed but otherwise I know it’s a waste to stay up and be a crazy addict and talk to friends till 2 a.m. Also it isn’t our teachers faults its our parents and us.
I disagree with Mr.Bauerlein on this comment for it isn't entirely our fault. Parents should be enforcing the rules in the house. If you give a child a computer in their room then obviously they are going to stay up late usng it. If the parents don't check in on them then they might stay up all night. Maybe some parents put computers in their childs room to replace them. Its a parent replacement.
Hit the nail on the head with this one. This is pretty much exactly what I have been preaching about while we were reading this book. ESPECIALLY the part where he says "self-esteem" grading.
YES YES YES! They changed the grading system to make people feel better about them but all it ended up doing was making us lazier. Has anyone else noticed how, above 50%, every mark gets 10%...... right up until "A", which gets a whole 20%? It’s just plain stupidity. LITERALLY! I don't mean to be rude but WHO CAME UP WITH THAT IDEA!?
Also, parents are becoming less active in their child's life and letting them stay up late texting or watching movies, or what not. Getting no sleep helps your grades about as much as this so-called "self-esteem" grading does. (Honestly something needs to be done about that self-esteem grading. please.)
Well, you can't have a good argument if you're fighting on the same side, so I don't have a ton more to say other than: I agree.
II agree with this one, people are becoming more obsessed with Facebook and other social media sites as it becomes more invasive in our daily life. Our parents and teachers have loosened their grip on us, and we are learning like babies being spoon-fed, as Mr.Oickle put it. But I don't think our parents have loosened as much as it was said and that Mr. Baurelein has exaggerated on that point. But teachers now tend to be really soft when criticizing kids and on their work, but I think that teachers can be a little harsh and give back criticism so next time obviously kids can do better, instead of teachers always telling them that it's right and they are doing well, when they really aren't. And one thing, this comment is really similar to Reason 5, as we are more addicted to technology.
I agree on this that parents are becoming less and less involved in their kids life. So that means that their kid is up till 2 AM texting or IMing their friends till they actually go to sleep dreading dragging their butts to school the next morning. Also I think that in elemantary school students should be told that they are doing great in school and everything so it keeps them motivated. But in middle school and high school putting a gold star on a students paper or doesnt hide how bad they are doing or motivate them. At. All. Students should be pushed harder. It's not okay to just say "You'll do better next time" and give them a high five after a student got a D or R on a test.
its true that kids will stay up really late watching tv or going on the internet, which isnt a good thing. i dont really get what he means by "we drowning in stuff delivered 24/7 by 'tools'"
i agree with sebasten/rachel, that why would parents put a computer in the kids' rooms if they are not responsible enough to know when to stop.
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