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Review Of Erin O 'Connor's Article No Child Left Offline'

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O'connor, E. (2009). The dumbest generation: How the digital age stupefies young Americans and jeopardizes our future (or, don't trust anyone under 30), by Mark Bauerlein. New York: Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin, 2008, $24.95 hardbound. Academic Questions, 22(2), 234-239. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12129-009-9102-1 In the article “No Child Left Offline” Erin O’Conner starts with a rhetorical beginning about a story of a Miss South Carolina model that was asked a question about how United States students couldn’t locate the United States on a map. Soon after, a survey was done that showed that a large amount of students could actually identify where the United States was on a map. O’Conner expresses his thought about the incident by stating, “What better forum for staging our cultural institutions’ role in propagating that cluelessness than the beauty pageant, with its seductive equation of gorgeousness with more substantial qualities such as intelligence and character?” By him saying this, he reveals his thought …show more content…

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