“…ready to dump our schools…”
…we’ve reached the point in our (disparate) cultural adaptation to computing and communication technology that the younger technical generations are so empowered they are impatient and ready to jettison institutions most of the rest of us tend to think of as essential, central, even immortal. They are ready to dump our schools.
And about time! Cringely’s of my generation (well a little younger) and makes his point well about the chasm between technology use by different generations. While I may sometimes chuckle and wrying shake my head when my octogenarian father describes his (do note: successful) struggles to master his computer and make it a useful part of his lifestyle, my children, I’m sure, chuckle to themselves and wryly shake their heads at my abandonment of my cell phone and lack of any desire whatsoever to “text”.
But Cringely goes beyond the obvious divide in different generations’ integration of new technologies as genuinely useful parts of their lives and notes a specific impact of the effect on education.
These are kids who have never known life without personal computers and cell phones. But far more important, there is emerging a class of students whose PARENTS have never known life without personal computers and cell phones. The Big Kahuna in educational discipline isn’t the school, it is the parent. Ward Cleaver rules. But what if Ward puts down his pipe and starts texting? Well he has.
Speaking about the shift from knowing stuff to Googling stuff–yeh, who hasn’t “put down” that eBook to do a quick search on “Albegensian” or whatever? *heh* I picked that because I already knew a bunch about that word’s historical implications from “old guy” stuff rattling around in my head… and still did a search on the term some months ago. Google is sometimes better than memory, you know–Cringely notes:
This is, of course, a huge threat to the education establishment, which tends to have a very deterministic view of how knowledge and accomplishment are obtained – a view that doesn’t work well in the search economy. At the same time K-12 educators are being pulled back by No Child Left Behind, they are being pulled forward (they probably see it as pulled askew) by kids abetted by their high-tech Generation Y (yes, we’re getting well into Y) parents who are using their Ward Cleaver power not to maintain the status quo but to challenge it.
Read the whole thing for a twist you might not see coming… 
h.t. Jerry Pournelle’s Mail. Drop by. Read. And wish Dr. Pournelle well.
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ah yes good ole technology..which is supposed to be so advanced but is dehumanizing and crippling society inch by inch!..woohoo!
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Bill Richardson’s Gutter Talk…
Governor Bill Richardson endorsed Barack Obama last Friday in a move that was only surprising to the Clinton campaign. I suspect that Richardson waited until he was pretty certain that one or the other would at least get the pledged delegate win (Obam…
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Time March 24, 2008 at 5:18 PM
Obama Changes his Story Again and Defends Wright in the Process…
The mainstream media is just plain horrible in so many respects.
Here we have a presidential candidate who first says he never heard the Rev. Wright spout his anti-American views.
Then a few days later in his “race” speech, Obama says:
For…
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Time March 24, 2008 at 5:22 PM
AnoTher “Grim Milestone” for our TroopS?…
According to the A.P., a.k.a., the left-wing propaganda machine, we should have never toppled Stalin’s regime, or Hitler for that matter, because brave, willing men gave their lives…and tragically………..died.
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Time March 24, 2008 at 8:00 PM
CAIR trains FBI agents…
Insight-Report: CAIR trains FBI agents as new report cites links to terror (go read it all but here’s a taste): An American Muslim group identified as an unindicted co-conspirator in a criminal terrorism case is being used by the FBI…
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Time March 24, 2008 at 8:21 PM
Hillary’s Whopper…
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Hillary Clinton is caught telling a whopper and now claims she mis-spoke.
Meanwhile an Aide to Congressman Dan Lipinski (D-Ill.) is apparently violating House Ethics rules by claiming to use his…
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Time March 25, 2008 at 2:57 AM
Could the Presidential nominee for the Democrats still be Al Gore?…
I predicted long and tirelessly last year that he would bide his time and eventually make a run for the nomination, but I admittedly was wrong. He faded out and rested on his Global Warming awards.
Or was I?
According to at least one Su…
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Time March 25, 2008 at 3:20 AM
Anti War protestors head to church- to protest war…
Maybe that the only way to get these idiots in church.
Idiots, plain and simple. Why defile a church and disrupt an Easter Service to protest a war that the Catholic Church already opposes?
Someone please, explain this to me?
A…
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Time March 25, 2008 at 7:00 AM
Irony the Christ killer: Christ Who deposed Irony…
George Weigel wrote a column titled “Easter vs. irony” that appeared in our local Catholic paper and it’s great. It starts out like this:
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Time March 25, 2008 at 12:41 PM
Why Can?t People Just LEAVE KWAME ALONE!!!!…
The Hip Hop Mayor of the Motor City Detroit Michigan Keeps getting caught in one scandel after another, why wont you guys just leave Kwame alone!! He?s a Human?.
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Time March 25, 2008 at 1:13 PM
Portland Protesters Call for the Murder of Your So…
I posted a short little snippet of this a while ago and called it good ? for a minute. It just flew all over me, but I was going to let it go at that one little bit and a referral to the original article. But you know me, I can?t let it go. It just b…
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Time March 25, 2008 at 1:29 PM
Marine Mom Adopts Platoon…
Maureen O?Haire gave birth to five children, adopted another four and cared for more than 50 foster kids. Now she?s playing mother hen to an entire platoon of Marines….
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Time March 26, 2008 at 1:48 AM
Peace Thugs on the rise…
Look at this picture, and the words on the sign (Courtesy of Zombie):
At first glance, the sign, while vulgar to some people, seems clever. The problem is that it is unintentionally hypocritical.
I have no doubt that the major…
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Time March 26, 2008 at 2:13 AM
Pro Veteran event at a High School canceled: too political…
What irritates me about this story is the fact that nearly any liberal anti war cause is showcased at schools, and students can even get released from school to go protest with their nutball teachers in some places.
But when the pro troop ral…
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Time March 26, 2008 at 2:25 AM
Blue Star Chronicles unleashed over anti troop comments…
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What has always impressed me about her was her unwavering support of the troops. Her blog is a must read on any given day.
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Time March 26, 2008 at 2:36 AM
Code Pink: We are here to stay in Berkeley….
This one is a nobrainer.
Code Pink: In Berkeley Until the Marines Leave
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Time March 26, 2008 at 11:05 AM
Hillary Clinton MISSPOKE?!? Another Clinton Whopper Of A Lie…
As it has been properly and apty said, “How can you tell when Bill or Hillary Clinton lie? Whenever their lips move.” And once again it proves true. Hillary Clinton recently described her 1996 trip to Bosnia thusly: “I remember landing under snip…
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Time March 27, 2008 at 1:03 AM
Snohomish County Judge determined to get to the bottom of alleged Jury underwear misconduct…
I kid you not. I mean you cannot make this stuff up.
See what happens when a juror independently tested the famed “Fruit of the Loom” defense:
Underwear test by a juror puts murder verdict in doubt
The “Fruit of t…
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Time March 27, 2008 at 2:17 AM
Michelle Obama speaks to the the Ignorant Americans, while Barack wishes it would go away…….
Via Hot Air:
Michelle Obama: America the Ignorant
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Time March 27, 2008 at 11:21 AM
03/27/08: Hands On…
The essence of conservatism is skepticism. The essence of liberalism is control…….
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Time March 27, 2008 at 1:28 PM
God bless Geert Wilders…
FITNA RELEASED! Come see it.
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Poet Laureate of the Blogosphere Nominations…
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Time March 24, 2008 at 6:01 AM
Anti-War Nutjobs Spray Fake Blood During Easter Service…
Sadly, I am really not surprised. Disgusted, yes. Shocked, no
(Chicago Tribune) Six people were arrested at Holy Name parish’s auditorium Sunday after disrupting an Easter mass to protest the Iraq war.
The group—whose female and male members id…