Gen Z: First generation that’s officially dumber than the previous one

[Anonymous]

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[Anonymous]

Our President:

"The smarter people think they are, the dumber they actually are..."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
Information Literacy: A study published in College & Research Libraries (2021) found that Gen Z students often lack "information literacy skills," specifically the ability to evaluate the veracity of sources. While they are "digital natives," they often struggle to distinguish between fact and opinion compared to Millennials.

1. This is a dissertation, not a peer-reviewed article.
2. This is specifically focused on first-gen college students with a sample size of 30 kids at one university.
3. This does not compare against millennial performance at all. Your comment "compared to Millennials." is a lie.

Anonymous wrote:
Standardized Performance: Reports from McKinsey & Company (2024) and data from the PISA (Programme for International Student Assessment) indicate that student achievement in math and reading has stagnated or declined globally over the last decade.

Links? Are you referring to the NAEP data?
Either way, stagnating math performance does not mean an entire generation is "dumber".

Anonymous wrote:
The "Digital Decline" Theory: Cognitive neuroscientist Jared Cooney Horvath and other researchers have argued that the heavy integration of screens in learning (starting around 2010) has led to a decline in "deep work" capabilities, memory, and attention spans, marking the first time in a century that a younger generation’s cognitive scores (in certain domains) haven't surpassed their parents'.

Key words: theory, argued. Where are the actual peer-reviewed studies?




Speaking of weak information literacy skills...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Information Literacy: A study published in College & Research Libraries (2021) found that Gen Z students often lack "information literacy skills," specifically the ability to evaluate the veracity of sources. While they are "digital natives," they often struggle to distinguish between fact and opinion compared to Millennials.

1. This is a dissertation, not a peer-reviewed article.
2. This is specifically focused on first-gen college students with a sample size of 30 kids at one university.
3. This does not compare against millennial performance at all. Your comment "compared to Millennials." is a lie.

Anonymous wrote:
Standardized Performance: Reports from McKinsey & Company (2024) and data from the PISA (Programme for International Student Assessment) indicate that student achievement in math and reading has stagnated or declined globally over the last decade.

Links? Are you referring to the NAEP data?
Either way, stagnating math performance does not mean an entire generation is "dumber".

Anonymous wrote:
The "Digital Decline" Theory: Cognitive neuroscientist Jared Cooney Horvath and other researchers have argued that the heavy integration of screens in learning (starting around 2010) has led to a decline in "deep work" capabilities, memory, and attention spans, marking the first time in a century that a younger generation’s cognitive scores (in certain domains) haven't surpassed their parents'.

Key words: theory, argued. Where are the actual peer-reviewed studies?




Speaking of weak information literacy skills...

There is a lot of data showing the same thing. Worsening outcomes for kids starting around 2010. Of course, that was the time of the Great Recession and some of this could still be the fallout of middle class never recovering from that. But we also do have a lot of peer reviewed studies showing that screens in schools negatively impact learning.

[Anonymous]

1. It’s the demographics. Gen Z is much less white than previous generations, and racial test score disparities drag down the average. If you separate Zoomers into racial cohorts, most perform as well as their predecessors in that cohort or better.

2. Most anti-Zoomer sentient is just coded racism.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Information Literacy: A study published in College & Research Libraries (2021) found that Gen Z students often lack "information literacy skills," specifically the ability to evaluate the veracity of sources. While they are "digital natives," they often struggle to distinguish between fact and opinion compared to Millennials.

1. This is a dissertation, not a peer-reviewed article.
2. This is specifically focused on first-gen college students with a sample size of 30 kids at one university.
3. This does not compare against millennial performance at all. Your comment "compared to Millennials." is a lie.

Anonymous wrote:
Standardized Performance: Reports from McKinsey & Company (2024) and data from the PISA (Programme for International Student Assessment) indicate that student achievement in math and reading has stagnated or declined globally over the last decade.

Links? Are you referring to the NAEP data?
Either way, stagnating math performance does not mean an entire generation is "dumber".

Anonymous wrote:
The "Digital Decline" Theory: Cognitive neuroscientist Jared Cooney Horvath and other researchers have argued that the heavy integration of screens in learning (starting around 2010) has led to a decline in "deep work" capabilities, memory, and attention spans, marking the first time in a century that a younger generation’s cognitive scores (in certain domains) haven't surpassed their parents'.

Key words: theory, argued. Where are the actual peer-reviewed studies?




Speaking of weak information literacy skills...

There is a lot of data showing the same thing. Worsening outcomes for kids starting around 2010. Of course, that was the time of the Great Recession and some of this could still be the fallout of middle class never recovering from that. But we also do have a lot of peer reviewed studies showing that screens in schools negatively impact learning.

So you claim.

Are you the same PP who lied above?

[Anonymous]

I've taught high school English for 20 years.

This generation really does have severe focus issues, do not and in many cases cannot read and understand the same novels kids were able to read and understand even ten years ago. Their vocabularies and ability to write, think, and analyze are markedly lower than ten years ago. And...they don't care. They lack the interest and curiosity in the (real) world around them and in other people that kids had a decade ago.

I am heart-broken at what my class has become since the advent of AI, and, to a lesser extent, widespread social media culture in general.

I don't know what the solution is, but yes, I am sure average IQs are lower for Gen Z.

Perhaps microplastics, environmental reasons, etc play a role? But mostly, it is screens and the advent of AI, and there is no going back and no solution I can see.

[Anonymous]

Also the teachers are forced to inflate the grades and pass the students along ergo students get an A without the learning and work part. Then admin fire the teachers who did their dirty work for them. The only compensation teachers usually get being allowed to keep their shty job.

[Anonymous]

proud to see the millennials in this thread discrediting the thesis!

[Anonymous]

Ed Tech is destorying our schools AND it decimated school budgets.

My greatest wish is that every year my kid gets the teacher who uses technology in the most discerning manner. Unfortunately, almost everything to track students uses a computer.

If PG moves to virtual at any point this year for more snow, I will just say they are absent. I refuse to have a personal device in my home and require my kids to be on it for 4 hours. Physical safety is not the only safety.

Pen and paper + material text are 100% better compared to computers for learning and comprehension.

Early elementary is not for job skills. I am tired of hearing about how not using computers will make our kids fall behind. They aren't secretaries FFS. Sure, have a computer class but the brain learns how the brain learns and it does not learn well using tech.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The indoctrination is working and the push to equity is having the desired effect. When you push everyone into being equal the standard must fall.

Congratulations US K-12 education system, it took a couple of generations to achieve the goal but it worked. Now with Gen-Z teachers in the fold the standard can continue to drop.

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[Anonymous]

Yes. Recent studies indicate that Generation Z is the first generation to show lower cognitive performance and IQ scores compared to Millennials, largely attributed to increased screen time and digital technology use in education. Experts suggest that this trend may be reversing the historical pattern of rising intelligence across generations.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes. Recent studies indicate that Generation Z is the first generation to show lower cognitive performance and IQ scores compared to Millennials, largely attributed to increased screen time and digital technology use in education. Experts suggest that this trend may be reversing the historical pattern of rising intelligence across generations.

Citations?

[Anonymous]

Independent research is reaching a consensus that Generation Z is indeed less intelligent. A recent report surfaced a few months ago that elite universities are altering their curricula for Gen Z students, and they are making it easier. Yes, you read that right. We know it was always a fond hope that we carried through instinctively. But it is a practical world where it is happening. While we often add that label to every new generation of being less resilient, having less patience, and being less shiny than their predecessors. The concern this time is more than labels. It is scientific research.


https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/education/news/gen-z-less-intelligent-than-millennials-how-skipping-books-and-doomscrolling-are-taking-a-toll-on-cognitive-abilities/amp_articleshow/127986327.cms

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
Independent research is reaching a consensus that Generation Z is indeed less intelligent. A recent report surfaced a few months ago that elite universities are altering their curricula for Gen Z students, and they are making it easier. Yes, you read that right. We know it was always a fond hope that we carried through instinctively. But it is a practical world where it is happening. While we often add that label to every new generation of being less resilient, having less patience, and being less shiny than their predecessors. The concern this time is more than labels. It is scientific research.


https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/education/news/gen-z-less-intelligent-than-millennials-how-skipping-books-and-doomscrolling-are-taking-a-toll-on-cognitive-abilities/amp_articleshow/127986327.cms

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