Are electronic media making us less (or more) literate?

Did you ever go into an establishment to make a purchase and the power was out?

When the teenage clerk that was waiting on me could not count my change past ten, I told him to take his shoes off that way he had ten more appendages to use. It didn’t go over too well. He was going to text me to tell me off but didn’t have my number.

In most areas the devices in the electronic age have become magnificent tools but on the other side of the coin it has created a culture of people that cannot add or subtract without the aid of a computer and cannot hold a decent conversation because all they do is text and email. Most critical; they do not have to think because the machine is doing it for them.

The old school fundamentals should be taught first, addition, subtraction, multiply, division, spelling and communicating. Once the basics are instilled in the students’ memory then use of electronics could be used.

A friend of mine was visiting a couple one night for dinner. The couple had two daughters that were sitting at the table across from one another and they were texting each other.

It has been quite sometime that hand held computers are permitted in class rooms. That was a big mistake. Our brain needs to be developed by using it and thinking but the machines are doing it for us. The brain is like any other muscle in your body; if you don’t use it you will lose it.

Example: GPS is one of the tools that guides us around the world among many of it’s other functions. It is a very good tool but I would be willing to bet that 80% or more of the population does not know how to read a map.

We are probably past the point of no return already. By this time most of the teachers grew up in the same environment that their students have.

Kids and adults alike; put those machines down for a couple of hours and day and exercise that thing sitting on your shoulders.

Speaking for myself; I love spell kcehc.