Interesting piece about how using technology impacts our lives and development.

[Markverhyden]

And the conclusions are not that surprising.

Handwriting Lights Up Your Brain–Here’s How

Pick up a pen to activate neural pathways that might otherwise remain dormant.

www.theepochtimes.com

 

[Larry Sabo]

Interesting. This may explain why students today are doing so poorly -- after they were no longer required to learn writing & reading script (around here).

 

[GTP]

I've seen handwritten letters from Gen Z and younger, and to be quite honest - they look like they were written by six-year-olds!
Misspelling words has become so ingrained that it’s now considered "normal."
Examples include:

"Got to" >gotta
"You" >u
"You're" >ur
"Going to" >gonna (or gunna)
"No" >nah
"A lot" >alot
"I don't know" >dunno or idk
"Because" >cuz cos bc
"Want to" >wanna
"Let me" >lemme
"Have to" >hafta
"What are you doing?" >wyd or "watcha doin"
"Laughing out loud" >lol
"Oh my God" >omg
"Be right back" >brb
"By the way" >btw
"See you" >cya
"Thanks" >thx or ty
"Sorry" >sry or soz
"What" >wut

Yes, these shortened words are acceptable and needed time savers when texting on a mobile, but when Gen Z er's start sending job application letters using them that is a real problem!

The sad thing is, when you try to correct them, they act like you are the one who's wrong!
Similarly, when "Spellcheck" offers the correct word, they think their PC is broken!

 

[HCHTech]

"No" >nah

Oh man, so many of those are triggering for me! Yes, language changes over time, No, I don't have to like it.

 

[Blues]

In gaming and text I will use many of those and as someone from the southern united states many of those are normal round here.

 

[Markverhyden]

Interesting. This may explain why students today are doing so poorly -- after they were no longer required to learn writing & reading script (around here).

It so interesting how so many of the "follow the science" clique so studiously ignore science. We have evolved through the millennia, even hundreds of thousands of years, with our eyes following our hands, etc at the same speeds doing all kinds of tasks

 

[Larry Sabo]

It so interesting how so many of the "follow the science" clique so studiously ignore science.

What burns me, is all the PhDs (Ed) that design these curricula that yield kids who can't do math without a calculator or read/write script, or many other things. Yet, "It's all about the kids!"

 

[DRPCNZ]

Sometime around Sep Oct 2024 from memory Cant remember what month there was a survey released that showed this current generation has the lowest IQ of the last seven generations. One of the biggest issues that I see is that schools no longer teach children how to think. Everything is Internet (Google) based. If you don't know Goggle it. If you don't have access to google just sit there and do nothing, DO NOT under any circumstances go and asked someone how to do something. This is where I get to my pet hate of AI, now that they have been dumbed down lets give them AI which well dumb them down even more. Three more generations I'm not sure they will be able to breath unless told how

 

[Philippe]

Not around here... Good old Europe

 

[britechguy]

One of the biggest issues that I see is that schools no longer teach children how to think.

I agree, and am sad to hear that this phenomenon is not unique to the USA. Critical thinking skills must be taught, and they need to be taught at an age appropriate level starting as early as is possible.

And in countries like the USA (which is where I live) where the courts are favoring the ludicrous idea that "parental rights" means that little Johnny or Janey can never be exposed to any thought, practice, or worldview that does not comport with the parents' own, you get to where we've gotten in terms of public discourse, too.

I am so thankful that my parents did not believe that I should not be exposed to things they did not agree with. They expected that I would be, and that there would be discussions regarding "what we think" versus "what you've just heard about" and that, sometimes, the latter would be what I (or one of my siblings) would believe, even if that was not permanent.

Little unthinking individuals were not tolerated in our household.

Even the Catholic junior high and high schools I went to had discussions regarding "what we think, and why," versus "what the world thinks, and why." That's the foundation of creating a person who's well-rounded and eventually thinks for themselves by examining as much information, often conflicting, and coming to a reasoned decision about what to believe.