Analysis Of If Technology Is Making USupid It's Fault By Susan Goldberg

Lately, research has shown that kids these days are not that intelligent as the use of technology increased. Their reading and math skills decreased and the amount of books they would read has also decreased as well. This has brought some worry to many adults that this upcoming generation will end up being the “dumbest.” However, there are multiple factors that can cause us to seem the “dumbest generation.” In Goldberg’s article, “If Technology Is Making Us Stupid, It’s Not Technology’s Fault,” he uses pathos and logos to prove that technology itself is not the reason why our level of intelligence is decreasing; instead, technology actually can prove to be making us smarter in different ways from the past. Through pathos, we can see how

By using Brooks’ statistics, Goldberg further reveals that the more children read books, the more intelligent they would become. However, this is only referring to conventional intelligence. Goldberg argues that Brooks should not make it a “books versus the Internet” because they “open up to different conceptions of what ‘serious learning’ amounts to” (Goldberg 302). The Internet and the books are two different sources for learning that are used for different purposes. Goldberg refutes Brooks idea of how books are superior compared to the Internet by questioning the reason why we are learning if we are only learning to get good grades on those standardized tests. Getting good grades would look good statistically nationwide, but that does not necessarily mean that the person themselves is becoming smarter from learning how to get good grades on those conventional

He brings up the notion that if Shakespeare could not become and hip-hopper, then we can not expect a hip-hopper to become Shakespeare (Goldberg 301). Goldberg uses this kind of logos to reveal that one mold will not necessarily fit everyone, meaning that not all of us will have the same intelligence as each other nor have the same method of gaining intelligence. As great as Jane Austen was as a writer, not everyone may be into reading her writing. If we generalize what intelligence is and the method of gaining intelligence, then it would be the same as if saying that we are all just one person with one way of thinking, which would not help our society improve or change in the future. Nothing new would be created, leaving us only to plateau in our development as a society. Since not everyone is the same, not everyone learns or thinks the same. With the availability of technology and the vast amount of different sources and purposes it holds, we can expand on our intelligence and learn in ways we could not have back when we only had books around to help us learn new