The premise behind any worry that kids are getting dumber is that this is a bad thing, a development to deprecate. If Johnny can’t write one side avers, then what hope is there for public discourse, critical diligence and democracy? If Johnny can’t tweet the other side responds, then what hope is there for fast-moving crowd-sourced innovation and collective creativity? Each side defines intelligence in its favour because both assume that intelligence must be the governing value of human evolution.
via Mark Kingwell, Too smart for our own good – The Globe and Mail.
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