What's the Matter with Kids Today? Amy Goldwasser

Group #3
Phong Vang
Patrick Enyart

1.
The main idea of this reading is that the internet has expanded kids' minds when it comes to school and themselves. Kids tend to know know more than the previous generation because they have easier access to information by using the internet.

2.
Teengers are writing more and spending about 16.7 hours per week on the internet writing and reading, which Amy sees as educational.
People think the internet is a bad thing, but it really isn't because it's causing kids to write and read more than they normally would.
By having the internet, teenagers have unlimited access to any information from all over the world. They could use this for educational purposes and to do better in school.
Teenagers can use the internet to easily get connected to social networks, like facebook and myspace and there they can learn about new things going on around them.

3.
Watching TV Makes You Smarter.
Amy Goldwasser would agree with Steven Johnson because they both would argue that media will only help people become smarter, not dumber. Johnson uses a tool he calls the "sleeper curve," which he defines as "to be able to keep up with entertainment (like 24), you have to pay attention, make inferences, track shifting social relationships." All of those will have you thinking more than you normally would and in the end you'll feel smarter, just from watching TV. Goldwasser would say that the education you learn from the internet is what you will have written and what you will read from just being on the internet.

Family Guy and Freud
Amy would disagree with this because it poisons the minds of children. It has an excess of offensive jokes that could teach kids bad behavior.