And while you’re still in upper childhood, unneeded social information is plastered everywhere. “There’s no such thing as a small party that you only hear about a month later, because now kids make sure that everyone knows a party is going on and that everyone else isn’t invited,” said Mark Bauerlein, author of “The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future.”
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Bauerlein is a naysayer in a yes but since the idea is that the digital age is great for sharing information but he is claiming that the wrong information is being shared such as parties and social events instead of scholarly links.
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Here from the very beginning, Pamela is a naysayer. She introduces the fact that people seem to believe that others want to know what is going on in their lives. Social media, or even communication itself is full of information that she and I wouldn't want to hear. Pamela implies that people do think that people care and this is to say that people don't care or need to know about everything going on in their lives.
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“My high school friends from Kansas are dear, sweet people,” said Colby Hall, the founding editor of Mediaite.com. “But nothing says depressed like people asking you to feed the cows on Farmville.”
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Colby Hall is a naysayer in this part of the article but in a yes but sense. She states that the people she knows in Kansas are dear sweet people but sees them depressed when she gets a notification on facebook. This is saying that she likes the way we are all connected through social media and have the power to just use a click send to stay connected but the send button is being misused at too much unnecessary information is being sent such as farmville requests. I know I get annoyed when a notification is just a request to cut my neighbors grass. She is naysaying about how we need to share even the smallest changes in our lives as though people care.
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1. "others go so far as to bemoan the physical campus as an unnecessary"
2."expensive burden in an online world"
3.". But "few actually challenge and support students to embrace the ecological questions and immediately begin living the possible solutions-not later but in the midst of the educational experience itself."
4."Learning how to grow tomatoes does not really prepare you for managing a farm so that it can survive a year or two of poor crops. Carving a wooden spoon might be a step on the way to saying, I can do it, but it sure won't supply a kitchen with all the needed tools"
5. "The notion is that the better educated you are, the better you will be as a worker, the more self-respect you'll have, and so on."