Middle-class teenagers are less intelligent than a generation ago due to the dumbing down of youth culture and school tests, a new study suggests. IQ tests show that scores for the average 14-year-old have dropped by more than two points between 1980 and 2008. Leisure time is increasingly taken up with playing computer games and watching TV instead of reading and holding conversations. Education experts said a growing tendency in schools to "teach to the test" was affecting youngsters' ability to think laterally. Do you agree with this, or do you have some good suggestions? 作者: 李武军 时间: 2011-6-29 07:47
I agree with this opinion. but it's really hard to solve this problem....作者: SugerDaisy 时间: 2011-6-29 08:00
yeah, I agree with you.作者: tingroom 时间: 2011-6-29 10:50
i don't know the teenagers,but i think the little children are much more clever than before.作者: veryenglish 时间: 2011-6-29 18:11
yes, I think so.作者: 西瓜学英语 时间: 2011-6-29 22:29
yes ! I'm in favor of you!作者: itsmypink 时间: 2011-7-2 14:00
i don't think so . because now mental surroundings and physical condition have much more progressed than before . teenagers can touch more knowlege and kinds of training with various forms .
in addition , actually , they communicated well and frankly with their own classmates or team who should be trusty . don't similar with the scene "wallow in computer games only " that someone discribed .
so , i don't think teenagers nowadays will have less IQ than 1980s .作者: xiaomeixin 时间: 2011-7-2 14:37
When children at school,they all are expected to pass the examinations one by one.It seems that the score of the examination is more important than everything.Less thinking and experimenting lead to the students have less experience in working.All they know is still paper,paper.
Also,internet games have killed most of their studying time.They would rather playing computer games than reading.And sadly,when they have an assignment,they also prefer to surf the internet to find the answers than to think by themselves.How should they be more intelligent.作者: SugerDaisy 时间: 2011-7-2 21:40
You are right, but the point is teenages nowadays are more dependent on others. They want their parents to arrange for them everything, even their expense of marriage, house, car and so on so forth.
And employers found that undergraduates and even graduates just have a diploma when they start to work, they seem like know nothing to do, and they even don't know how to learn. This is just my personal view.作者: 随风去 时间: 2011-7-11 10:28
I don't think so.作者: nickyaoxp 时间: 2011-8-2 10:31
bad news~!作者: 莎莎dawn 时间: 2011-8-6 09:31
I don't know,but I know that those little kids have more chance to learn and to know~!~!
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