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The dumbest generation : how the digital age stupefies young Americans and jeopardizes our future : or, Don't trust anyone under 30 / Mark Bauerlein.

By:

Bauerlein, Mark [author.]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: New York, NY : Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin, 2009Edition: 1st trade pbk. editionDescription: xii, 253 pages ; 23 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

1585427128
9781585427123
1585426393
9781585426393

Other title:

How the digital age stupefies young Americans and jeopardizes our future
Don't trust anyone under 30

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

302.231 22

LOC classification:

HQ799.7 .B38 2009

Contents:

Knowledge deficits -- The new bibliophobes -- Screen time -- Online learning and non-learning -- The betrayal of the mentors -- No more culture warriors.

Summary: A provocative analysis of what the author believes to be the intellectual shortcomings of today's young adults contends that electronic media originally developed to enhance the learning capacities of the current generation has directly contributed to growing gaps in basic knowledge.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	North Campus North Campus Main Collection	302.231 BAU (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		A518454B

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Originally published: 2008.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-244) and index.

Knowledge deficits -- The new bibliophobes -- Screen time -- Online learning and non-learning -- The betrayal of the mentors -- No more culture warriors.

A provocative analysis of what the author believes to be the intellectual shortcomings of today's young adults contends that electronic media originally developed to enhance the learning capacities of the current generation has directly contributed to growing gaps in basic knowledge.

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