Blog #17

The article I chose was “Have Smart Phones Destroyed a Generation?” by Jean Twenge in The Atlantic. Before I even read the article I knew I wanted to, I have an interest in this topic so when I saw that article I knew I wanted to read it. I think that this is a real problem in the younger generation and I see it in my generation but I feel it’s so much worse in the younger generations. I do also think that because technology is advancing so much it is important for students to know how to use them. I hope this won’t happen in the future but technology might be the only things that students will know. In this essay Jean introduces a conversation she had with an 13 year old girl in Houston, Texas and the relationship she has with her phone. That the 13 year old spends more time on her phone talking to her friends than in person. I consider this to be a trustworthy source because after getting an introduction to the library resources I found that this source follows the “CRAAP Test”, for Currency: its was published September of 2017 in The Atlantic, for Relevance: The intended audience could be anyone really but maybe mainly meant for adults, for Authority: The author listed is Jean Twenge, for Accuracy: The information has been adapted from Jean Twenge’s forthcoming book, iGen: Why Today’s Super-Connected Kids Are Growing Up Less Rebellious, More Tolerant, Less Happy—and Completely Unprepared for Adulthood—and What That Means for the Rest of Us. I plan to make a connection between my choice essay and are classroom texts by connecting Yo Yo Ma’s text and his argument that education needs to shift from STEM to STEAM because the importance of empathetic thinking may influence the minds of these teenagers that family, friends and school is more important then their phones. Art can give these students a imagination and dreams that phones and technology in general can not.