PREVIEW MCS 2325: Technological Dumbing Down of Education

0:00Here's another interesting one. Gen Z is getting dumber and that's hurting the GOP in America. This is Joseph Ford Cotton at American thinker. The troubling shift is unfolding within generation zoomers. Born between 1997 and 2012 and it does not merely cultural or political, it's cognitive. You mean they're stupid? Yeah. He says yeah. In February testimony before the U.S. Senate Committee on commerce, science and transportation, neurofans, as Dr. Jared Cooney Horvath stated that zoomers have become the first generation of modern recorded history to score lower than its predecessor. This was across key cognitive measures such as

1:04attention span, memory reading comprehension, numeracy, problem solving ability, and overall IQ. In other words, they're stupid. Now what might be making them so stupid? That. This is what is making them stupid clicks and likes. I mean they ate tide pods for a challenge. Now we did eat tide pods for a challenge. But remember some of them thought that they could surf on the roof of their friends cars. Remember that one? Remember the roll out of the car challenge? Do you remember this? Yes, we covered it. You basically hijacked your parents car and you get in it and then they showed you how to rig up. I'm okay with that

2:05because I did some amazing ramps for my bicycle. So that's just you know kids being kids but eating tide pods. No, wait a minute. No, you're not understanding. They were showing each other on videos how to rig up a gizmo to keep the gas pedal pushed down. Then they would oh no, I'm not making this up and you're going on a street where your buddies are watching or whatever and then you're open your door and you roll out. That's stupid. Yeah, well a couple of them died. Then there were the idiots that were that were they remember there used to be hood ornaments. What happened to hood ornaments? We have so destroyed the beautiful the beauty that was the American car. They were taking ski ropes. I'm not and I'm not making this up. This is how stupid these kids were. They were taking ski ropes and they were tying them to the grill or to the what passes for a girl. It's all plastic now. The front of a car and then they would have their friend drive the car and they would climb on the roof with the ski rope and as the friend was swarving back

3:10and forth they're surfing. They're surfing. They're skiing on the roof of the car. Several of them fell off. We're massive brain injuries and there were deaths. That's the that's the generation we're talking about. For more than a century Joseph four cotton says the trend had moved in the opposite direction. Each two generation typically scored on intelligence measures than the last higher than intelligence measures than the last. Scholars called this the Flynn effect. I didn't know that. Improvements in nutrition education and living standards steadily boosted cognitive performance just around the 20th century we're told. The trajectory appears to have reversed.

4:10Researchers point to an environmental cause rather than a biological one. The most frequently cited factor is the overwhelming dominance of digital media in both classrooms and daily life. The best thing that you could do for all of your children if you have school age children is lead a campaign wherever it is that you live if you don't homeschool and I'm not going to judge you on it. But if you don't homeschool is a lead a campaign in your school district or wherever it is that your little darling Tyke goes to school to remove all digital devices from class from school. You have to get rid of them. Call Turkey. You know that you're even the dumb Europeans are doing this. Europeans are laying out. Screw that. We're just going to ban them from social media altogether until they're 15. A digital device is not necessary. As a matter of fact I would say a digital device is an impediment to learning. AI is an impediment to learning. You know how much I

5:18know about cascading style sheet styling. I'll give you an example. Better turn flay. What the hell is the guy getting style yeet? What do I hear? They're right here. Let me tell you. By the way the only character on the mic chart show that is as old as the dude number and the heirlet man back and heirlet man has been around with us for 27 years. Okay. So when I'm because we're poor around here we don't have the money to hire developers and designers to do heavy lifting website work. So when you go to the all new micchurch.com and it looks beautiful and everything displays nice even when you change devices. Well that's not an accident. You have to actually do that. Well if you don't know how to write the code or to understand a code and it's very complex. It's getting more complex. They

6:27keep adding complexity to it. What you can do is you can do what I do and I used to try and understand it and I knew just enough to screw it up. So you can do what I do now which is I tell chat GPT I tell the AI what the problem is I give it a little piece of the code and I say can you fix it there's never I never got a no. Now I will tell you that sometimes it takes five six attempts for the AI to get it right and then you'll go back and all I do and I literally will tell you dude you totally screwed that up. But I'm not learning about CSS code anymore. I don't need to so I'm just I'm just giving you an example. I don't need to be like I can get chat GPT to do it for me because why do I need to understand it when I can just tell it to do it.

7:29So you don't know anything. I mean I know I can look at it. If you told me could you fix something on your website and you worry and it was based on this stuff called CSS. Cascading style sheet. I would tell you that yes without chat GPT if I wanted to sit there and learn how your stuff was working I could fix it. Well I don't I don't need to. What's the easy way I'll do. No it's the easy and fast way up because the learning curve is massive. So in any event I can tell you straight up. Now just apply the lesson that I just had to English. When I was in high school my most hated subject. No one would believe this today. But my most hated subject subject I hated the no well no second most subject I hated the most was math and I still hated it. I agree with Jimmy Buffett. Math sucks. It's useful as necessary just not for me was English. English lit. I

8:35I despised it. If I were going to screw all today I probably would be one of those that would be prone to using an AI to do my English homework for me. So but you but it can't take the test for you. This is the thing which is why if you ban the devices in the class well then you can't have it do your homework for you because you'll flunk every in session test right. Horvath summarized the problem bluntly during the Senate testimony. The human brain he explained is not wired to learn complex ideas through brief online clips or condensed digital summaries. Effective learning requires sustained engagement cognitive effort without those habits memory formation and deep comprehension weakened. This this is actually something that I do know a little bit about. If you want to keep your brain limber and you want to continue to challenge yourself as you

9:40get older older you know it's one of the things that you can do and I can tell you that this works learn a foreign language. Just pick one. I picked French. So I think I hope that's what I just said and any of it learning foreign language it will challenge you. It makes neurons in your noggin fire that otherwise would not because they're not connected and they're going to wait a minute. I don't have that knowledge I got to make a new neuron or I got to connect to an unused or an idle neuron and it will keep you sharp it will keep the kids sharp as well which is why you know back when I was in school I think I was the last year in state of Virginia that you did not have to take at least one year of Latin. You remember Latin

10:45used to be required by folks.