NOT the dumbest generation.

Many people consider the youth of today to be the "dumbest generation". However saying this just displays that individuals own ignorance. Yes, sometime I write "i" instead of "I" in informal online conversations, and I do rely on spell check when editing a paper, but none of these things mean that I don't have as much knowledge as anybody in the past. Some critics attack technology and say that it is being abused by students and taking away from the learning experience, but I can speak from personal experience that it isn't. Last year I had the privelage of learing in a one to one classroom with laptops for every student and other technologies. It is a common misconception that all these resources make learning nothing more than a tempory gathering of information that will later be thrown away and forgotton but that is not so. That class was the hardest I have ever taken. I was expected not only to find the information required for class but to search through hundreds of other related sources to help understand and find meaning in it. Without the internet, where would you be able to find first hand accounts about the Great Depression, or World War II, with just a few clicks of a mouse. My computer literacy has also helped me outside of school. I often help my dad, who is the manager of a buisness, create online forums, websites, and other resources to help with his business. We are not at all the dumbest generation; we are a generation with many skills and new ways of thinking that will help us be pioneers for the generation ahead of us.