If we have a generation failing in education but also not believing that failure is that big of a deal, then we have a generation not even understanding the definition of failure! This is frightening!
The world is also teaching them that enlightenment, and 'woke', are bad words. There is an intentional dumbing down of society and you're right, it's frightening. It's downright disgusting.
Yeah I think the implementation of "participation trophies" and such back in the 2000s was a big precursor to that. They don't care now whether or not they succeed or fail, they will get rewarded anyway. They don't know the difference very well.
In my gen alpha's school district they stopped teaching kids how to print over a decade ago, and cursive over 30 years ago, it is no longer a part of the cirriculum. So kids do not know how to hold a pen or the direction of a letter because the teachers no longer teaches it. Many classrooms no longer have an example of the alaphabet posted on the walls of the classroom.. So I had to teach my daughter however she is a straight A grade 4 student that still sometimes mixes up the direction of d and b a problem that would have been figured out by grade 2 in my era because we had daily printing worksheets and an example of the alapabet posted in every classroom. The problem here is not with the kids but the school system they are raised in.
Unfortunately I think these new generations are about to board a ship that can't even sail. They don't annoy me, I'm genuinely worried for them. Guess that's just my " getting older" taking. You ever think about going hard on the '90s? Or wait, is that a millennial thing? Haha just kidding. The '90s are absolutely fascinating. Keep them coming man!
I work in a middle school. If a kid puts their name on a worksheet and hands it in without doing any work they still get a 50%. The problem stems from 2 other sources that are often overlooked. First is the school board is an elected position, and their primary source of votes are parents who want to feel their kids are special. Second is if a student isn't doing well it is automacticly viewed as the school's fault.
As a Gen X'er, I find it odd that these youtubes talk about taking classes for keyboarding skils when it wasn't mandatory in the Gen X era. Learning Excel and Power point were also never a class taught. We learned keyboarding, excel, powerpoint, and what we needed to know about computers, MS Dos then windows navigation and computing on our own, because we knew we needed it. I can tell they are not made from someone from our generation. We learned from experience, not someone standing over our shoulder. The problem I believe is social media influencing younger generations that they don't NEED any of this to be successful - so they never learn it. And none of our parents stood over our shoulders telling us to do it, so blaming parents for your lack of drive is lame.
I am Gen X too. We were taught typing in high school on a typewriter. Computers were still in their infancy. We weren't taught excel or any of that stuff because it didn't exist. It came out my freshman year of college for PC and they offered introductory courses that were required in your gen eds.
Agreed, Gen X here and we learned because we wanted to and knew it would be helpful in the future. We had sense to have forethought. Lots of what I’ve learned was from the library and on my own! School was for the basics.
I'm gen x, too, though a later vintage. We were definitely taught keyboarding and computer studies in high school. In elementary school (JK - 6) we had one computer in the school. In junior high (7-8) there were a few more. In high school in 1990 there were many. We had several classrooms that were filled with computers. I went to the second most populated school in the largest city in Canada so maybe that's why.
Gen X as well. I took a typing class on a computer in 9th grade and a basic computer programming class in 10th grade. And an accounting class on computers in 12th grade. We installed Doom 2 on those computers, lol. But, of course, I was born at the tail end of Gen X.
Younger Gen X here born at the end of 79 and I learned how to type on a computer. Although I did practice on my dad's old typewriter when I was ten. I started using computers in 87 when I was eight and learned Power point in either middle or high school. I don't remember which. As part of the Oregon Trail generation, I played Oregon Trail in elementary school and killed one of my friends with dysentary in that game several times. Loved Number Munchers as well. I liked the Amazon Trail game as well. Learned to type in third grade and had a typing class in 9th grade I think.
I don't know how it is in the UK, but here in USA teachers have been quitting in droves for several years now. The kids of Gen Alpha are out of control and out to lunch, a lot of the parents don't or barely discipline their kids (thanks gentle parenting), yelling at the teachers for simply saying "no" to poor little Johnny, and there's nothing the teachers can do about it. They can't teach, can't do their job, because it is soooo bad. So, there's now a huge teacher shortage in addition to the problems these kids are having in the first place. The curricula have changed drastically over the past 15 years as well. We have this Common Core bull crap that was put out by he govt during Obama, giving kids and parents utter learning grief. Schools also implemented "look-say" to "teach kids how to read. And obviously, none of these things have been working very well. It's been a horrible downward spiral for years now, but most especially since covid lockdowns and it's related mandates. That deprived them of every developmental milestone known to man.
The public school system was designed to train the next generation of factory slave labor. We no longer have factories but we’re still training our kids for factory jobs. The slaves are revolting. The problem is the school system and the systems that train our teachers to unknowingly be slave masters. In the U.S., teachers are the college kids who weren’t smart enough to do anything else. The system is designed to keep the people from being smart enough to revolt against the ruling class.
Makes you wonder where the world is going... One day these kids will be in charge, making decisions, having children. Makes me think that movie "idiocracy" might not be that far off
3:50 - Right now, I am SERIOUSLY reminded of a line I heard in a TV show once: "To assume the obvious is to overlook the obvious." I can completely see older people thinking "these kids are plugged in to all sorts of tech, so need to be redundant and teach them how to type." I'm a Gen-Xer, and never took a typing class in school.... BUT, I had a computer in my home and back then, we had to type programs into the computer from magazines, or at the very least, type commands in to get the computer to do something, because this was before "point and click" came about.
@@Eniral441 Let me guess... Compute's Gazette? Even using..... what was that program called..... MLX? Entering in those two-letter/number combinations that the program you entered it with would "double-check" the built in CheckSum in case you had a typo.....? My friend and myself took turns reading the programs to one another while the other one typed. It's how we learned how to type. Typing to dictation is actually a great learning method to learn typing. I still have those magazines here at the house. But yeah, trying to learn Machine Code was a ROYAL pain in the ass. Believe me, I tried.... but I just couldn't wrap my head around it.
The more I find out about the younger generations and all the Disrespect to their older family members or co workers!, I just want to take them back in time and put them in an old fashioned school were they can get some real education and also send them to a psychologist to learn Empathy and Appreciation for others!
Personally I think we should bring bullying and shaming back because that made us kids tough you've younger generation are a bunch of pansies that want to change the definitions of everything to make it to what you want instead of learning what things actually mean get over yourself you are not that important and when you get out in the real world you will soon learn how insignificant you actually are and how the real world thinks about you which is nothing they think nothing about you I need to be as frivolous as you want but as a parent I would not allow you back in my house and I would tell you that you're on your own welcome to the real world good luck
Just yesterday I read about a 6th grader that threw thing at his Texas teacher until he poked out one of her eyes. The eye had to be removed because it was too damaged and when they surgically put it back in the socket she never regained vision.
Just yesterday I read about a 6th grader that threw thing at his Texas teacher until he poked out one of her eyes. The eye had to be removed because it was too damaged and when they surgically put it back in the socket she never regained vision.
Keyboards? I'm a Baby Boomer who graduated highschool in 1966. My senior year in high school I took Typing...on a manual typewriter. From 1967 to 1969, I was in a 2-year technical institute. We had to write 2 short technical reports per week. We got extra credit for typewritten. I once actually applied for a job and had to take a typing test!
@richardmartin9565 I have taken typing tests when applying for jobs as well in the 90s. Do they not do that anymore? I guess maybe nowsays it is a given that you know how to type.
*All the more reason to:* 1.) Ban phones in school 2.) Not give them a smart phone until they're 15 or 16 (start them off with a flip phone) 3.) Not have them go onto social media until they're 16 or 17 4.) Introduce "play based" childhoods by not giving them screens, but instead have them go outside and interact with other kids 5.) Foster life skills to grow their independence (i.e. Have them do chores, do groceries, etc.) *(ref: **_The Anxious Generation_** by Jonathan Haidt)*
Easy to say, but outside is not what it used to be. I would not let my daughter use a smartphone or computer, but I ended up finding out she had been skipping lunch all year to use the computer in her school library. She was hacking out of the school locks to games, and other off limits content. I found out when she hacked my debit account to buy next level stuff for the game. She didn't know I did regular checks of my account activity. Later, I learned that even after I contacted the school, and spoke with the librarian, they allowed it to continue. But why not? The health class was code for sex indoctrination. She was not only learning stuff I didn't intend to cover for a couple of years, they were teaching and testing what I can only call pornography, and were referenced various websites to get more information. My daughter was contacting predators online at school, and when I approached them about it, their reaction was to be stunned that I told on my own kid! They reported that they saw conversations my daughter had, but refused to show me! I moved. I should have gone to court, but this was years ago. Like so many, I didn't want to prolong the effects of the situation. I wanted her away from it. I regret I didn't fight for her, and the other kids who kept the school's secrets from their parents. I just didn't expect to achieve much, given the reaction I got when they didn't take pornography, and predation to be problematic. School is not the only influencer. Kids no longer have friends with two parents. It used to be latchkey kids at least could be influenced by seeing the lifestyle of friends whose parents were actively involved in their growth and academics. Now, kids fending for themselves have only friends doing the same. Kids without electronics at home don't play stickball with friends. They go to a friend's house, or to a creepy bachelor in his fifties where they can play video games, and chat online, and nobody checks out where they spend their time. Parents give their kids too much crap, and then the kids have no incentive to make any effort for something they want. This video scares me, but it doesn't surprise me in the slightest. And yes, parents who don't take an energetically active role in raising their kids are to blame. They aren't to be blamed for all their kids's failures, they ARE to blame for their OWN failures to the needs of their kids, for guidance, discipline, and education. 😡 I'm a really old woman. I am done raising children, but I might have to advertise to help a handful of kids with reading and writing. (Sigh) I just wonder if there'd be any parents who care enough to bother to contact me. 😢 The one thing I gave my kid that set her apart from the others was a DRIVE to know. I showed her the satisfaction of victory over stupid. She has made plenty of mistakes, but I countered the best I could. I taught her to read, to finish what she starts, and to always be suspicious of advertising. Advertisers don't care one bit about any of us. I taught her their only goal is to make her money theirs. We have to be vigilant, from birth, to adult, and beyond. Stupid waits patiently for every opportunity.
Well, 1st off, the whole concept of "influencer" is just creepy. Influencers virtually equate to "groomers", manipulating young people's thoughts & behaviors for their own purposes, with little concern for what young people really need. 2nd, the one saving grace in this travesty is that the REAL world teaches REAL lessons that cannot be ignored & shrugged off. For instance, many, many people cannot find their way from Point A to Point B without GPS, & get hopelessly lost & turned around, causing fear & anxiety, at the very least. However, had they learned to read an actual map, they'd most likely never have needed GPS to begin with. Real world lesson, & just one of millions that young people ARE going to learn. Thanks for your reaction.
I think that's already been normal for decades honestly. My parents got divorced in 1990 when I was eleven. One of my friends moved to Tenessee when her parents got divorced two years after that and one of my old friend's parents got divorced when she was two.
Kind of a broad take on what it's like to come from a single parent home. It's not going to exponentially get more normal or common... Well it may but the feelings that come with it will not.
Example of how Stupid some Businesses and people are these days! In the past if you worked in a big store you would have to punch in the dollar amounts of each product and have a running total and move on to the next until you were done. Now they scan everything and it's all automatic they even want you to do it yourself and bag it yourself???!! Do they even have a job anymore, we're not getting paid to put our own things thru and bag it!!! So one day I go to Walmart and need to get a bunch of groceries and start noticing a large line up and it's going around the store, and they're starting to tell people that are walking in that they don't know how long they'll have to wait because the computers were down for the cash registers and no one could do it the old fashioned way anymore! Some people were waiting in line for over an hour and other people were just leaving their full carts and walking out! Things didn't start working again till a couple of hours later, half the store left! This is New Technology, if you can't do it the old way, you'll be Screwed when the system goes down!!!
The store I wss at when I was a cashier I could do it but the store thinks everyone steals from them so the want an electric snd video record of transaction which is annoying when we have a computer glitch or the internet craps out.
In the early 90s we stopped at a rest stop where the power had gone out and the registers were down. Employees struggled with doing the math just the same. They were using paper and pencil and I, a 10 year old, had to step in and do the math on our order for them. The ineptitude is more obvious now but it’s always been this way.
Welcome to adulthood. For every new generation you see, the surprise of their weird choices become less. But I must admit that imagine this generation as future productive adults is difficult right now.
Baby boomer here, get your act together Now, life ahead of you is going to be rough. What you learned in school in 10 years will be obsolete. AI is going to change the world and if your not ready you will sleeping in your car. stay hydrated
No offense, but I thought gen z was doomed, and honestly even my own generation- but gen Alpha honestly terrifies me when I think that one day they'll be running society and taking care of me when I'm old.
It's not just Gen Alpha. I've had Gen Z and even younger Millienials stare blankly at me when I've referred to a C drive and even a file structure on a computer. No concept of even file size and how it might affect their phones at times.
To be fair, I think C drive is a PC thing, right? I've been using Macs so long I wouldn't know how to find a C drive if you drove me there. That's a lie, but it did take me a minute to realize what it was referring to.
I graduated in 1985 & to me, it seems like when the Dept of Education became a cabinet position in 1979 is when education started going downhill. I think I was taught more about Martin Luther King Jr in elementary school than college kids are today.
@ Isn't cursive still readable? There are many styles of branding that use a type of cursive, and many fonts as well. To be able too write in cursive is the only secret. Also, to be fair. It did take me a bit to learn it was cursive. We called it writing vs printing.
Im not going to follow these rules. I'm just going to let them flounder. They can grow up or they can fail. I'm sick of being held hostage by the younger generations.
Gen X here. This information does not surprise me considering the declining nature of Government Failings vs. the Educational System. 1 Generation is only as good as the prior can be via their Educational Funding (be it Privet / Public), additionally if society is forced to work longer hours in order to support the family(s) they have little time to help their child(ern) become more than emotional wet mops. Another factor to consider is Food vs. Brain Development & Function, if the foods eaten are loaded preservatives / sugars (negative) / (Negative) Starches...GMO's (which is about 90% of any grocery market). The examples can go on forever, so you get jest...
When I was in high school in the late 80's, early 90's it was typewriting class. Not keyboarding. You learned to type on a typewriter, not a computer. And the class was mostly girls. I think the few boys only took the class to be close to girls. Emoji's were not a thing back then and I rarely use them now, but I actually do use the thumbs up, heart, and clapping hands..
I miss the days when the generation gap was based around music and different views. This is different when a generation doesn't even know the basics to debate intelligent debates with.
The opposite is happening in rural South Africa, 82% of Grade 4 students can't read for understanding - because they don't have access to technology (or books and qualified teachers). How are we gonna fix this mess of a world we have left for the kids to fix, are they equipped to do that?
I can read it, but I literally cannot write it and I’ve tried so many different ways and so many people have tried to teach me. But I physically cannot do it.
Original study was done in 2019. What was happening when most these 4th graders should have been learning the basics during Kindergarten and 1st grade? They were being homeschooled by Millennials.
I started high school in the fall of 1994, and that year I had a lot of required classes on my schedule. One of them was Keyboarding. 100% of my graduating class in 1998 were holding a 40wpm average with basic knowledge of the MS Office suite as we had used it the past four years for school projects and assignments. And this was in the very early days of Windows. Crazy to think how inexperienced Gen A's are with all of this, but I guess with their devices being more in the line of tablets and phones, they must only know very limited things in regards to computers. Originally, I had planned to go into teaching K-2, but with the early boom of computer technology advancement, I quickly switched to Computer Science. We knew where the bulk of the jobs would be coming from. lol
What needs to be done? Unanswerable question man. I'm not saying generations to come will not evolve as they have. Just the awareness and how out of touch they are with the simple things in life... The things that make life life.
The question is not unanswerable. Parenting has been declining over the past several decades. Schools have changed very little since one room schools, compared to how much everything else about life has changed over the same time. Schools were established in Ben Franklin's fashion, and changed so little since. Schools need to be completely refashioned. Why is it decided what grade children should be in by age. I would get test results back during my childhood " ... reading at tenth grade level. Math skills at eighth grade level..." but because of my age, I was in the seventh grade. I knew then changes should be made. When my youngest started kindergarten, she was already able to read newspaper articles. They put her in kindergarten, but sent her to a second grade class each day during the reading portion. Attendance needs to be a goal, not a requirement. Initially, it was pushed through that the government is required to PROVIDE adequate school opportunity for children up to becoming an adult. Requiring attendance isn't about educating our children, it's about budget. It is obvious that educating the kids is not a priority. Kids are forced to show up just so the district can get paid by the numbers, but their time spent is very low quality. So many changes need to be made, I can't list them here. An entire manual is required. Point is, I can absolutely answer your question.
@@redhead2376 I am what they like to label to day as a sigma. I am not in a class i am just me. I go about life my way like me or hate me that's down to you. As for the overwhelmed with worry. I had see it coming with the technology. I keep a dumb lifestyle as possible. Technology is not always for the better.
I blame Mark. We've had computers for years then he came along. It was fun at first until, I heard a business say, find us on facebook, I knew it was no longer a social, friends network anymore. After that it all went downhill and everything started to change and not for the good.
It is funny, that "keyboarding skills" (or typing, as we called it) has gone in and out of favor. In the 50-70s, it was required for any secretarial job or white collar job, so it was taught in schools. I learned to type at home with an old workbook and a typewriter. Then, I took a class around age 13 that taught how to type (I was ahead of the game!). Then it went down, because kids played on computers and learned to type on their own. Now, I guess, we have to teach typing skills again?
I can only imagine, I have rare encounters with my friends kids, and it's awkward 💙 I can't even share, because it's too much😂🙊😅 That was just...💙 Best of luck to them, and us💙 Patience is a virtue💙 ✌️🐦🔥✨
It's not just technology at fault. It's society that has changed, it use to be a parent stayed home to raise the children but now both parents work. As a teacher I have had parents ask me to teach their child right from wrong and morals because they only get the weekend to spend real time with their children and they don't want to have to discipline them or have a negative time with them. That's not parenting though. Children and parents are missing the important times of bonding and learning. Children learn the basics of reading, writing, maths and social skills through that one on one time with a bonded parent, Teachers aren't parents.
As for texting in full sentences, the millenials and older Gen Z that I knew when they were about Middle School aged, used to give me a hard time for texting with full sentences and puntuation and complete spelled out words too. Admittedly this may have been the trend then because we didn't use Qwerty keyboards. We used phone keyboards. So this may just be a return to those days without the same cause.
This is not all Gen Alpha! All of the Gen Alpha students I taught are actually pretty savvy techies and really good typists. Then again, our schools, where I taught, teach typing and coding in elementary school computer class (part of the classes we call "specials". Each course is at least once per week during the school day. These include music, PE, art, library, and computers.)So, it's not a typing course, per se, but they still learn to type. They are also writing more advanced papers than I did in elementary school. (I'm Gen X.) We complain about their reading scores, which have dropped overall some. But that is relative to what they've been doing. It seems to have more to do with their attention span and related issues to taking tests. However, they do still read in school. Most elementaries require 20 minutes of reading at home too.
The typing in full sentences makes sense. They grow up with social media or commenting from a very young age so might see it as we see conversation. I don’t think we usually speak very formally or with the correct grammar. It.s probably more often used if we are trying to be assertive about an issue or establish a boundary. I think they see messages in this way maybe.
My daughter is a younger millennial, now living with me. I'm having to RE-teach her how to read and write! The school didn't teach her very well to begin with, and then through her 20s she has barely ever used this basic skill! You have phones, auto-correct, and voice-to-text, what the heck do you need reading and writing for these days? omg.
@Cocreatewithus what if they have a job and have to read the application? Or have legal paperwork that they have to read. Or working a job that doesn't allow them to have their device on them.
Don't give kids a smartphone or tablet with their pacifier. Teach them critical thinking, philosophy, the scientific method. Take them hiking in nature. Quiz them on fun trivia without a connection to google or siri. And above all... good luck. I think it be impossible. Ask a gen alpha what alpha is. I dare you.
When I watched a video 30 years ago on Millennials I concluded that the world was in trouble if things didn't improve. Then Gen Z came along and I concluded the planet was doomed. Generation Alpha sound like borderline vegetables. I know we're doomed but worry what will happen when I'm too old to look after myself. It's terrifying to realize I have to depend on people who can't read, write, count, etc.
My daughter is a younger millennial and even though she loves me very much she said she won't take care of me when I'm old. Like, WTF??? I don't think they understand how it works....
The alpha male thing is true enough in the sense that their is a pair in charge. The error comes from thinking its a dictatorship type thing. They do fight for dominance and to maintain position. But the whole point of a pack is cooperation.. and you do have to both work together and divide "jobs" according to skill etc.
I think you said 47% of 4th graders have been found not to be proficient in reading, but the video figure was worse: 67% not proficient. Also...I know you did say this and are aware of it, but I wonder if you've really taken a moment to fully imagine what it is like: if you are beginning to feel disconnected in your 20s, close your eyes and imagine how you might feel if you were in your 30s, 40s, 50s, 60s, 70, 80s, 90s and older (yes, there actually are people older than their 60s, and many, even in their 80s and older, can still walk, talk, think and want to be connected and participate in their own lives and the world). And they were already adults when computers became everyday objects--they didn't grow up even seeing or, in many cases, hearing of such things (or, for those in their 80s and older, even tv, if you can imagine that). So if you are starting to feel disconnected now, imagine how excluded and disconnected you're likely to feel even by the time you're married and have children, if those are your choices, let alone when you are elderly (if we haven't blown ourselves up by then, or otherwise ended the earth or its habitability). Last: the most important thing about education is that it teaches you not facts, but how to think-- critically, logically, fairly and a bunch of other ways that are crucial to everything from being a citizen who can participate in trying to make society just, democratic/inclusive, humane, physically and mentally/emotionally healthful, supportive to humans and the planet...and pretty much everything else.
I'm gen x and we didn't have keyboard courses (1982-1985 High-school) but I did sign up for typing because I had a computer at home my parents bought me (Apple IIe) in 1980. So glad I did because I can type 45 words per min. and thank god I'm not a finger pecker typer. 😂 and had the privilege to be the only guy in there surrounded by women 😉
Also they aren't Curious anymore. At least SO many just don't want to research and explore. It's just awful... Their mindset. I'm a Boomer and I took typing courses and all of my children can beat the crap out of me on their keyboard they're smarter they're adept.
Also, not proficient doesn't mean they can't. I've known a number of Alphas that can read just fine but chose to skim and guess at answers during the reading portion of a test.🙄 Hoqever, there are a number of districts that removed basic phonics from the curriculums and some are racing to put it back in. Also, a lot of issues has to do with school closures during the Pandemic and not holding students accountable. (Some of that started beforehand, and got amplified during COVID)
As a gen Z, I do and dont have high hopes for Gen Alpha. My youngest siblings are alpha, and i grew up in a tech savy house, so i do have hopes that they have the technical skills for the future. There are a couple of things i hate that They believe 1, the ok thing if you make the ok hand gesture people will get mad because at the right angle you see wp or white power. That's stupid as shit and i have a stromg dislike over people who think that way 2. The influencer topic. You have places like cocomelon or ryans world that made kid friendly youtube videos, which would later release actual branding, and most cases would be parents get their stuff in the hopes of claming the kids down. 3. The skibidi and sigma and all that weird terminology crap, honestly, i blame tiktok and instagram for that because there are plenty of edgelords out there that pushed that agenda of being a sigma male and what not. As for the skibidi crap all i can say is that some people took that trend far to the point. It's nothing but brain rot that kids get exposed to at an early age, so they build their vocab around such things.
We had home economics and computer lab as requirements to graduate from highschool you had to have freshman year, year 9 and 9th grade you have take pre-algebra, English 1 Reading 1 US History 1 Physical Science, Health 1, Home economics 1, Social Studies 1, language Arts 1, Physical Education 1 and introduction Computers and Computer networking 1 then 5 electives either shops, extra main classes, advanced classes, or sports. That's just your 1st year in highschool. And if your in sports you have to keep and maintain a C average or a 75+ score. Anything less you get shoved into a class you don't want.
I wouldn't lay the blame of all this on teachers. What about their parents? I'm gen x, so are my sister and brother. All of us could read before we left the house for school. I don't know many gen xers who didn't learn to read at the kitchen table with the funny papers.
2:32 critique on the video…they mention “C-drive” then immediately say “Finder” Whoever wrote the dialog needs to also learn a little about computers and OSes.
4:56 this one actually isnt dumb. Texting is dialectical conversation, its not an essay its not a letter its not a formal conversation in ANY manner. Typing how you speak is how its MEANT to be done in text.
The way people speak about Gen Alpha reminds me heavily of the things older generations would say about Xers as kids. They said we would not amount to anything because we were too lazy being sat in front of the TV. People need to chill and let them live. (I'm not angry btw, ignore my punctuation)
Im glad im towards my end. I just want to see the start of this idiocy world. It will be even more of a 2 class system in the future. Good luck kiddo's.
Gen Alpha has been struggling in their own ways, a great deal, but to be honest Gen Z (sorry bro) has been struggling as well, with some of the same cultural issues. There is a good amount of overlap, which is why we get so frustrated at Gen Z adults. So many are having a hard time functioning out here in the real world. It's like, wtf is going ON??? Some (like yourself) seem to have a good head on their shoulders and came through alright somehow. Gen Z, you've GOT to learn from this huge issue of Alphas and take action, and be very pro-active in how you raise your upcoming Generation Beta children. Because, this stuff isn't working, and it is scary. Put discipline back in the children's' lives. Get rid of the iPads (because they are also called the iPad generation). Demand GOOD curriculum in the schools. Get rid of completely catering to the kids' "feels". Put physical BOOKS back in huge quantities in homes and classrooms. Don't let your kids on the computer until they're like in their mid-teens. Don't let schools just push your kids through grade levels without actually succeeding, that's an injustice they're doing. Make the 3 R's great again. Gen Z, you all are going to have to work hard at reversing this b.s. that a previous generation created. We're counting on you, guys.
Has millennial I'm also going to stay here that it's not just as millennials raising these Jen alphas because there's a lot of us millennials that don't even have kids. So believe it or not some of them are gen z parents that have kids.
It’s not the schools. When I was a kid in the 80’s and 90’s we didn’t have phones and we played outside. We read magazines and books for fun and wrote in diaries. Kids now can’t focus for longer than a tik tok short clip.
There was research predating the wolf study that first used the terms Alpha, Beta etc. to describe the literal pecking order of female chickens. Tell _that_ to the big tough Alpha Men. lol
You are successfully creating a talk to tech society that relies on the AI tech behind it and cannot function without it. And ultimately will be more controllable. Sorry for the GenX conspiracy theory
The sad thing is that they’re also being that Black people are being disadvantaged just from being black. They are not teaching anymore that we all have equal opportunity.
If we have a generation failing in education but also not believing that failure is that big of a deal, then we have a generation not even understanding the definition of failure! This is frightening!
The world is also teaching them that enlightenment, and 'woke', are bad words. There is an intentional dumbing down of society and you're right, it's frightening. It's downright disgusting.
Yeah I think the implementation of "participation trophies" and such back in the 2000s was a big precursor to that. They don't care now whether or not they succeed or fail, they will get rewarded anyway. They don't know the difference very well.
In my gen alpha's school district they stopped teaching kids how to print over a decade ago, and cursive over 30 years ago, it is no longer a part of the cirriculum. So kids do not know how to hold a pen or the direction of a letter because the teachers no longer teaches it. Many classrooms no longer have an example of the alaphabet posted on the walls of the classroom.. So I had to teach my daughter however she is a straight A grade 4 student that still sometimes mixes up the direction of d and b a problem that would have been figured out by grade 2 in my era because we had daily printing worksheets and an example of the alapabet posted in every classroom. The problem here is not with the kids but the school system they are raised in.
That's a benchmark for getting older when the generation behind you bothers you.Welcome aboard 😂😂
Welcome to what it feels like watching videos from generations that follow your generation!!
Unfortunately I think these new generations are about to board a ship that can't even sail. They don't annoy me, I'm genuinely worried for them. Guess that's just my " getting older" taking.
You ever think about going hard on the '90s? Or wait, is that a millennial thing? Haha just kidding. The '90s are absolutely fascinating.
Keep them coming man!
Keyboarding was Mandatory when I was in School. Man if GEN-X wasn't ready for the next grade we got held back in that grade.
Now they get skipped even if they don’t know their ABCs.
I feel sorry for the teachers trying to manage these Gen alpha kids.
😂😂 now you know how us Xers look at y'all..
It’s all making sense now 😂
I work in a middle school. If a kid puts their name on a worksheet and hands it in without doing any work they still get a 50%. The problem stems from 2 other sources that are often overlooked. First is the school board is an elected position, and their primary source of votes are parents who want to feel their kids are special. Second is if a student isn't doing well it is automacticly viewed as the school's fault.
As a Gen X'er, I find it odd that these youtubes talk about taking classes for keyboarding skils when it wasn't mandatory in the Gen X era. Learning Excel and Power point were also never a class taught. We learned keyboarding, excel, powerpoint, and what we needed to know about computers, MS Dos then windows navigation and computing on our own, because we knew we needed it. I can tell they are not made from someone from our generation. We learned from experience, not someone standing over our shoulder. The problem I believe is social media influencing younger generations that they don't NEED any of this to be successful - so they never learn it. And none of our parents stood over our shoulders telling us to do it, so blaming parents for your lack of drive is lame.
I am Gen X too. We were taught typing in high school on a typewriter. Computers were still in their infancy. We weren't taught excel or any of that stuff because it didn't exist. It came out my freshman year of college for PC and they offered introductory courses that were required in your gen eds.
Agreed, Gen X here and we learned because we wanted to and knew it would be helpful in the future. We had sense to have forethought. Lots of what I’ve learned was from the library and on my own! School was for the basics.
I'm gen x, too, though a later vintage. We were definitely taught keyboarding and computer studies in high school. In elementary school (JK - 6) we had one computer in the school. In junior high (7-8) there were a few more. In high school in 1990 there were many. We had several classrooms that were filled with computers. I went to the second most populated school in the largest city in Canada so maybe that's why.
Gen X as well. I took a typing class on a computer in 9th grade and a basic computer programming class in 10th grade. And an accounting class on computers in 12th grade. We installed Doom 2 on those computers, lol. But, of course, I was born at the tail end of Gen X.
Younger Gen X here born at the end of 79 and I learned how to type on a computer.
Although I did practice on my dad's old typewriter when I was ten. I started using computers
in 87 when I was eight and learned Power point in either middle or high school. I don't remember which.
As part of the Oregon Trail generation, I played Oregon Trail in elementary school and killed one of my friends
with dysentary in that game several times. Loved Number Munchers as well. I liked the Amazon Trail game as well.
Learned to type in third grade and had a typing class in 9th grade I think.
I don't know how it is in the UK, but here in USA teachers have been quitting in droves for several years now. The kids of Gen Alpha are out of control and out to lunch, a lot of the parents don't or barely discipline their kids (thanks gentle parenting), yelling at the teachers for simply saying "no" to poor little Johnny, and there's nothing the teachers can do about it. They can't teach, can't do their job, because it is soooo bad. So, there's now a huge teacher shortage in addition to the problems these kids are having in the first place. The curricula have changed drastically over the past 15 years as well. We have this Common Core bull crap that was put out by he govt during Obama, giving kids and parents utter learning grief. Schools also implemented "look-say" to "teach kids how to read. And obviously, none of these things have been working very well. It's been a horrible downward spiral for years now, but most especially since covid lockdowns and it's related mandates. That deprived them of every developmental milestone known to man.
The public school system was designed to train the next generation of factory slave labor. We no longer have factories but we’re still training our kids for factory jobs. The slaves are revolting. The problem is the school system and the systems that train our teachers to unknowingly be slave masters. In the U.S., teachers are the college kids who weren’t smart enough to do anything else. The system is designed to keep the people from being smart enough to revolt against the ruling class.
Makes you wonder where the world is going... One day these kids will be in charge, making decisions, having children.
Makes me think that movie "idiocracy" might not be that far off
3:50 - Right now, I am SERIOUSLY reminded of a line I heard in a TV show once: "To assume the obvious is to overlook the obvious."
I can completely see older people thinking "these kids are plugged in to all sorts of tech, so need to be redundant and teach them how to type."
I'm a Gen-Xer, and never took a typing class in school.... BUT, I had a computer in my home and back then, we had to type programs into the computer from magazines, or at the very least, type commands in to get the computer to do something, because this was before "point and click" came about.
That's how I learned computer languages, was typing in programs from magazines. I never learned binary though. I hated entering those in.
@@Eniral441 Let me guess... Compute's Gazette?
Even using..... what was that program called..... MLX? Entering in those two-letter/number combinations that the program you entered it with would "double-check" the built in CheckSum in case you had a typo.....?
My friend and myself took turns reading the programs to one another while the other one typed. It's how we learned how to type. Typing to dictation is actually a great learning method to learn typing. I still have those magazines here at the house. But yeah, trying to learn Machine Code was a ROYAL pain in the ass. Believe me, I tried.... but I just couldn't wrap my head around it.
The more I find out about the younger generations and all the Disrespect to their older family members or co workers!, I just want to take them back in time and put them in an old fashioned school were they can get some real education and also send them to a psychologist to learn Empathy and Appreciation for others!
Personally I think we should bring bullying and shaming back because that made us kids tough you've younger generation are a bunch of pansies that want to change the definitions of everything to make it to what you want instead of learning what things actually mean get over yourself you are not that important and when you get out in the real world you will soon learn how insignificant you actually are and how the real world thinks about you which is nothing they think nothing about you I need to be as frivolous as you want but as a parent I would not allow you back in my house and I would tell you that you're on your own welcome to the real world good luck
YOU need to learn empathy and appreciation for others. And you need to wake up. You’re a slave.
Just yesterday I read about a 6th grader that threw thing at his Texas teacher until he poked out one of her eyes. The eye had to be removed because it was too damaged and when they surgically put it back in the socket she never regained vision.
@@loganray8224 that kid is in jail, correct?😊
Just yesterday I read about a 6th grader that threw thing at his Texas teacher until he poked out one of her eyes. The eye had to be removed because it was too damaged and when they surgically put it back in the socket she never regained vision.
Jay Flex be like "kids today.. Sheesh."
The wolf study was done in captivity. In the wild they act very differently.
I’ve seen many comments blaming parents. Department of Education’s curriculum is failing the children! Kids need to know how to read and write. Duh.
Keyboards?
I'm a Baby Boomer who graduated highschool in 1966. My senior year in high school I took Typing...on a manual typewriter.
From 1967 to 1969, I was in a 2-year technical institute. We had to write 2 short technical reports per week. We got extra credit for typewritten.
I once actually applied for a job and had to take a typing test!
@richardmartin9565 I have taken typing tests when applying for jobs as well in the 90s. Do they not do that anymore? I guess maybe nowsays it is a given that you know how to type.
*All the more reason to:*
1.) Ban phones in school
2.) Not give them a smart phone until they're 15 or 16 (start them off with a flip phone)
3.) Not have them go onto social media until they're 16 or 17
4.) Introduce "play based" childhoods by not giving them screens, but instead have them go outside and interact with other kids
5.) Foster life skills to grow their independence (i.e. Have them do chores, do groceries, etc.)
*(ref: **_The Anxious Generation_** by Jonathan Haidt)*
YUP!!
Easy to say, but outside is not what it used to be. I would not let my daughter use a smartphone or computer, but I ended up finding out she had been skipping lunch all year to use the computer in her school library. She was hacking out of the school locks to games, and other off limits content. I found out when she hacked my debit account to buy next level stuff for the game. She didn't know I did regular checks of my account activity.
Later, I learned that even after I contacted the school, and spoke with the librarian, they allowed it to continue. But why not? The health class was code for sex indoctrination. She was not only learning stuff I didn't intend to cover for a couple of years, they were teaching and testing what I can only call pornography, and were referenced various websites to get more information. My daughter was contacting predators online at school, and when I approached them about it, their reaction was to be stunned that I told on my own kid! They reported that they saw conversations my daughter had, but refused to show me!
I moved. I should have gone to court, but this was years ago. Like so many, I didn't want to prolong the effects of the situation. I wanted her away from it. I regret I didn't fight for her, and the other kids who kept the school's secrets from their parents. I just didn't expect to achieve much, given the reaction I got when they didn't take pornography, and predation to be problematic.
School is not the only influencer.
Kids no longer have friends with two parents. It used to be latchkey kids at least could be influenced by seeing the lifestyle of friends whose parents were actively involved in their growth and academics. Now, kids fending for themselves have only friends doing the same. Kids without electronics at home don't play stickball with friends. They go to a friend's house, or to a creepy bachelor in his fifties where they can play video games, and chat online, and nobody checks out where they spend their time.
Parents give their kids too much crap, and then the kids have no incentive to make any effort for something they want.
This video scares me, but it doesn't surprise me in the slightest.
And yes, parents who don't take an energetically active role in raising their kids are to blame. They aren't to be blamed for all their kids's failures, they ARE to blame for their OWN failures to the needs of their kids, for guidance, discipline, and education. 😡
I'm a really old woman. I am done raising children, but I might have to advertise to help a handful of kids with reading and writing. (Sigh) I just wonder if there'd be any parents who care enough to bother to contact me. 😢
The one thing I gave my kid that set her apart from the others was a DRIVE to know. I showed her the satisfaction of victory over stupid.
She has made plenty of mistakes, but I countered the best I could. I taught her to read, to finish what she starts, and to always be suspicious of advertising.
Advertisers don't care one bit about any of us. I taught her their only goal is to make her money theirs.
We have to be vigilant, from birth, to adult, and beyond. Stupid waits patiently for every opportunity.
I blame the parents for most of this! 😮
Well, 1st off, the whole concept of "influencer" is just creepy. Influencers virtually equate to "groomers", manipulating young people's thoughts & behaviors for their own purposes, with little concern for what young people really need. 2nd, the one saving grace in this travesty is that the REAL world teaches REAL lessons that cannot be ignored & shrugged off. For instance, many, many people cannot find their way from Point A to Point B without GPS, & get hopelessly lost & turned around, causing fear & anxiety, at the very least. However, had they learned to read an actual map, they'd most likely never have needed GPS to begin with. Real world lesson, & just one of millions that young people ARE going to learn. Thanks for your reaction.
It's not the schools. It's the parents. You have to do the work prior to your child reaching school age.
they studied only wolves in captivity
Fatherless homes are increasing each year. Its an exponential thing, they learn its normal to have 1 parent.
I think that's already been normal for decades honestly. My parents got divorced in 1990 when I was eleven.
One of my friends moved to Tenessee when her parents got divorced two years after that and one of my old
friend's parents got divorced when she was two.
Kind of a broad take on what it's like to come from a single parent home. It's not going to exponentially get more normal or common... Well it may but the feelings that come with it will not.
Example of how Stupid some Businesses and people are these days! In the past if you worked in a big store you would have to punch in the dollar amounts of each product and have a running total and move on to the next until you were done. Now they scan everything and it's all automatic they even want you to do it yourself and bag it yourself???!! Do they even have a job anymore, we're not getting paid to put our own things thru and bag it!!!
So one day I go to Walmart and need to get a bunch of groceries and start noticing a large line up and it's going around the store, and they're starting to tell people that are walking in that they don't know how long they'll have to wait because the computers were down for the cash registers and no one could do it the old fashioned way anymore! Some people were waiting in line for over an hour and other people were just leaving their full carts and walking out! Things didn't start working again till a couple of hours later, half the store left! This is New Technology, if you can't do it the old way, you'll be Screwed when the system goes down!!!
The store I wss at when I was a cashier I could do it but the store thinks everyone steals from them so the want an electric snd video record of transaction which is annoying when we have a computer glitch or the internet craps out.
In the early 90s we stopped at a rest stop where the power had gone out and the registers were down. Employees struggled with doing the math just the same. They were using paper and pencil and I, a 10 year old, had to step in and do the math on our order for them. The ineptitude is more obvious now but it’s always been this way.
Welcome to adulthood. For every new generation you see, the surprise of their weird choices become less.
But I must admit that imagine this generation as future productive adults is difficult right now.
Baby boomer here, get your act together Now, life ahead of you is going to be rough. What you learned in school in 10 years will be obsolete. AI is going to change the world and if your not ready you will sleeping in your car. stay hydrated
Time to break the slave cycle, Boomer.
I'm just happy I'm doing everything possible to give my kid all the skills I have.
This is terrifying.
No offense, but I thought gen z was doomed, and honestly even my own generation- but gen Alpha honestly terrifies me when I think that one day they'll be running society and taking care of me when I'm old.
Bold of you to assume any of them will be willing to take care of old people.
@bjbear5202 lmfao very true- guess I still have a little hope. Lol
It's not just Gen Alpha. I've had Gen Z and even younger Millienials stare blankly at me when I've referred to a C drive and even a file structure on a computer. No concept of even file size and how it might affect their phones at times.
To be fair, I think C drive is a PC thing, right? I've been using Macs so long I wouldn't know how to find a C drive if you drove me there. That's a lie, but it did take me a minute to realize what it was referring to.
I graduated in 1985 & to me, it seems like when the Dept of Education became a cabinet position in 1979 is when education started going downhill. I think I was taught more about Martin Luther King Jr in elementary school than college kids are today.
Oh yeah, I cant wait to write notes in cursive to my grandkids lol I'm a little wicked lol this old Gran is Out
FLOL😂 That's diabolical
I asked my daughter if she knew what cursive is. She looked like a deer about to get shot.
@@pudlmaker yup cursive has turned into our secret code lol
@ Isn't cursive still readable? There are many styles of branding that use a type of cursive, and many fonts as well. To be able too write in cursive is the only secret. Also, to be fair. It did take me a bit to learn it was cursive. We called it writing vs printing.
I can read it. But I cannot do it for the life of me like. I’ve tried and tried and tried.
Im not going to follow these rules. I'm just going to let them flounder. They can grow up or they can fail. I'm sick of being held hostage by the younger generations.
Gen X here. This information does not surprise me considering the declining nature of Government Failings vs. the Educational System. 1 Generation is only as good as the prior can be via their Educational Funding (be it Privet / Public), additionally if society is forced to work longer hours in order to support the family(s) they have little time to help their child(ern) become more than emotional wet mops. Another factor to consider is Food vs. Brain Development & Function, if the foods eaten are loaded preservatives / sugars (negative) / (Negative) Starches...GMO's (which is about 90% of any grocery market). The examples can go on forever, so you get jest...
Who knew people tot dumber with education.
When I was in high school in the late 80's, early 90's it was typewriting class. Not keyboarding. You learned to type on a typewriter, not a computer. And the class was mostly girls. I think the few boys only took the class to be close to girls. Emoji's were not a thing back then and I rarely use them now, but I actually do use the thumbs up, heart, and clapping hands..
If you want a funny, if frightening perspective on where Gen Alpha is going... watch the movie "Idiocracy".
I used to laugh at this movie...now its on my horror movie list ... just doesn't hit the same anymore...
I miss the days when the generation gap was based around music and different views. This is different when a generation doesn't even know the basics to debate intelligent debates with.
The opposite is happening in rural South Africa, 82% of Grade 4 students can't read for understanding - because they don't have access to technology (or books and qualified teachers). How are we gonna fix this mess of a world we have left for the kids to fix, are they equipped to do that?
When I was in school... 100% of students took keyboarding and CAD... it was required
I say don't teach cursive, we need a secret language.
I can read it, but I literally cannot write it and I’ve tried so many different ways and so many people have tried to teach me. But I physically cannot do it.
The public school system is designed to keep the general population just smart enough to do a job and always be living in month to month stress.
Original study was done in 2019. What was happening when most these 4th graders should have been learning the basics during Kindergarten and 1st grade? They were being homeschooled by Millennials.
I started high school in the fall of 1994, and that year I had a lot of required classes on my schedule. One of them was Keyboarding. 100% of my graduating class in 1998 were holding a 40wpm average with basic knowledge of the MS Office suite as we had used it the past four years for school projects and assignments. And this was in the very early days of Windows. Crazy to think how inexperienced Gen A's are with all of this, but I guess with their devices being more in the line of tablets and phones, they must only know very limited things in regards to computers.
Originally, I had planned to go into teaching K-2, but with the early boom of computer technology advancement, I quickly switched to Computer Science. We knew where the bulk of the jobs would be coming from. lol
I took a typing class AND a computer class in 7th grade...in 1984-5
What needs to be done? Unanswerable question man. I'm not saying generations to come will not evolve as they have. Just the awareness and how out of touch they are with the simple things in life... The things that make life life.
The question is not unanswerable.
Parenting has been declining over the past several decades. Schools have changed very little since one room schools, compared to how much everything else about life has changed over the same time.
Schools were established in Ben Franklin's fashion, and changed so little since. Schools need to be completely refashioned.
Why is it decided what grade children should be in by age. I would get test results back during my childhood " ... reading at tenth grade level. Math skills at eighth grade level..." but because of my age, I was in the seventh grade. I knew then changes should be made. When my youngest started kindergarten, she was already able to read newspaper articles. They put her in kindergarten, but sent her to a second grade class each day during the reading portion.
Attendance needs to be a goal, not a requirement. Initially, it was pushed through that the government is required to PROVIDE adequate school opportunity for children up to becoming an adult. Requiring attendance isn't about educating our children, it's about budget. It is obvious that educating the kids is not a priority. Kids are forced to show up just so the district can get paid by the numbers, but their time spent is very low quality.
So many changes need to be made, I can't list them here. An entire manual is required.
Point is, I can absolutely answer your question.
I'm an Xer and was never taught about computers or typing either.
I'm an Xer. So happy i never had kid's the world today is lost. i don't see any hope.
@@dave-rn7zd I'm childless, too and am glad of it. I'd be overwhelmed with worry.
@@redhead2376 I am what they like to label to day as a sigma. I am not in a class i am just me. I go about life my way like me or hate me that's down to you.
As for the overwhelmed with worry. I had see it coming with the technology. I keep a dumb lifestyle as possible. Technology is not always for the better.
@@dave-rn7zd Same. I'm an analog gal in a digital world.
Boomers were all required to take young on an actual typewriter. We didn't learn to type on an electric typewriter either.
Oh honey, Gen Alpha are already smarter than most GenZ. Gen X, here observing.
Yeah, the wolf study was done on a group of unrelated wolves in a zoo, which was not representative of their natural behavior.
Yes the dynamic is very different when it's unrelated wolves vs. family wolves.
I blame Mark. We've had computers for years then he came along. It was fun at first until, I heard a business say, find us on facebook, I knew it was no longer a social, friends network anymore. After that it all went downhill and everything started to change and not for the good.
Parents educate, teachers teach, and teachers can't teach that which they themselves don't know.
It is funny, that "keyboarding skills" (or typing, as we called it) has gone in and out of favor. In the 50-70s, it was required for any secretarial job or white collar job, so it was taught in schools. I learned to type at home with an old workbook and a typewriter. Then, I took a class around age 13 that taught how to type (I was ahead of the game!). Then it went down, because kids played on computers and learned to type on their own. Now, I guess, we have to teach typing skills again?
I can only imagine, I have rare encounters with my friends kids, and it's awkward 💙
I can't even share, because it's too much😂🙊😅
That was just...💙
Best of luck to them, and us💙
Patience is a virtue💙
✌️🐦🔥✨
I respect this less because you're following alphas rules.
@thebug410 all of it is too inappropriate to even type here😅
@@kerriniemi I'm going to use red hearts and proper grammar every time. They can cope with it.
@@thebug410 of course ❤️
It's not just technology at fault. It's society that has changed, it use to be a parent stayed home to raise the children but now both parents work. As a teacher I have had parents ask me to teach their child right from wrong and morals because they only get the weekend to spend real time with their children and they don't want to have to discipline them or have a negative time with them. That's not parenting though. Children and parents are missing the important times of bonding and learning. Children learn the basics of reading, writing, maths and social skills through that one on one time with a bonded parent, Teachers aren't parents.
3:51 im gen z and we had several years of comluter courses why wouldnt they teach ppl 😂
As for texting in full sentences, the millenials and older Gen Z that I knew when they were about Middle School aged, used to give me a hard time for texting with full sentences and puntuation and complete spelled out words too. Admittedly this may have been the trend then because we didn't use Qwerty keyboards. We used phone keyboards. So this may just be a return to those days without the same cause.
This is not all Gen Alpha! All of the Gen Alpha students I taught are actually pretty savvy techies and really good typists. Then again, our schools, where I taught, teach typing and coding in elementary school computer class (part of the classes we call "specials". Each course is at least once per week during the school day. These include music, PE, art, library, and computers.)So, it's not a typing course, per se, but they still learn to type.
They are also writing more advanced papers than I did in elementary school. (I'm Gen X.) We complain about their reading scores, which have dropped overall some. But that is relative to what they've been doing. It seems to have more to do with their attention span and related issues to taking tests. However, they do still read in school. Most elementaries require 20 minutes of reading at home too.
We are getting closer to the movie idiocracy. Oh, and 👌 👌 👌 👌 👌 👌 😂
The typing in full sentences makes sense. They grow up with social media or commenting from a very young age so might see it as we see conversation. I don’t think we usually speak very formally or with the correct grammar. It.s probably more often used if we are trying to be assertive about an issue or establish a boundary. I think they see messages in this way maybe.
"dont send a red heart, it comes across as poor fashion."
💙💙💙 WOW 😮 😢
And which generation will our next doctors be from?!?! 😮😮😮 💙
Eeeeeeek!
What's disturbing is children aren't able to read. That's something to be worried about.
My daughter is a younger millennial, now living with me. I'm having to RE-teach her how to read and write! The school didn't teach her very well to begin with, and then through her 20s she has barely ever used this basic skill! You have phones, auto-correct, and voice-to-text, what the heck do you need reading and writing for these days? omg.
@Cocreatewithus what if they have a job and have to read the application? Or have legal paperwork that they have to read. Or working a job that doesn't allow them to have their device on them.
Tried to watch this but had to bail. This is very depressing.
Maybe now that TikTok is banned it will get better!
Don't give kids a smartphone or tablet with their pacifier. Teach them critical thinking, philosophy, the scientific method. Take them hiking in nature. Quiz them on fun trivia without a connection to google or siri. And above all... good luck. I think it be impossible. Ask a gen alpha what alpha is. I dare you.
When I watched a video 30 years ago on Millennials I concluded that the world was in trouble if things didn't improve. Then Gen Z came along and I concluded the planet was doomed. Generation Alpha sound like borderline vegetables. I know we're doomed but worry what will happen when I'm too old to look after myself. It's terrifying to realize I have to depend on people who can't read, write, count, etc.
My daughter is a younger millennial and even though she loves me very much she said she won't take care of me when I'm old. Like, WTF??? I don't think they understand how it works....
The alpha male thing is true enough in the sense that their is a pair in charge. The error comes from thinking its a dictatorship type thing.
They do fight for dominance and to maintain position. But the whole point of a pack is cooperation.. and you do have to both work together and divide "jobs" according to skill etc.
I think you said 47% of 4th graders have been found not to be proficient in reading, but the video figure was worse: 67% not proficient.
Also...I know you did say this and are aware of it, but I wonder if you've really taken a moment to fully imagine what it is like: if you are beginning to feel disconnected in your 20s, close your eyes and imagine how you might feel if you were in your 30s, 40s, 50s, 60s, 70, 80s, 90s and older (yes, there actually are people older than their 60s, and many, even in their 80s and older, can still walk, talk, think and want to be connected and participate in their own lives and the world).
And they were already adults when computers became everyday objects--they didn't grow up even seeing or, in many cases, hearing of such things (or, for those in their 80s and older, even tv, if you can imagine that).
So if you are starting to feel disconnected now, imagine how excluded and disconnected you're likely to feel even by the time you're married and have children, if those are your choices, let alone when you are elderly (if we haven't blown ourselves up by then, or otherwise ended the earth or its habitability).
Last: the most important thing about education is that it teaches you not facts, but how to think-- critically, logically, fairly and a bunch of other ways that are crucial to everything from being a citizen who can participate in trying to make society just, democratic/inclusive, humane, physically and mentally/emotionally healthful, supportive to humans and the planet...and pretty much everything else.
I'm gen x and we didn't have keyboard courses (1982-1985 High-school) but I did sign up for typing because I had a computer at home my parents bought me (Apple IIe) in 1980. So glad I did because I can type 45 words per min. and thank god I'm not a finger pecker typer. 😂 and had the privilege to be the only guy in there surrounded by women 😉
Also they aren't Curious anymore. At least SO many just don't want to research and explore. It's just awful... Their mindset. I'm a Boomer and I took typing courses and all of my children can beat the crap out of me on their keyboard they're smarter they're adept.
14:20 haha sorry, Millennials 👍 Jay’s siding with Gen X in this one… Now THERE’S a smart man! 💙
Also, not proficient doesn't mean they can't. I've known a number of Alphas that can read just fine but chose to skim and guess at answers during the reading portion of a test.🙄
Hoqever, there are a number of districts that removed basic phonics from the curriculums and some are racing to put it back in. Also, a lot of issues has to do with school closures during the Pandemic and not holding students accountable. (Some of that started beforehand, and got amplified during COVID)
As a gen Z, I do and dont have high hopes for Gen Alpha. My youngest siblings are alpha, and i grew up in a tech savy house, so i do have hopes that they have the technical skills for the future. There are a couple of things i hate that They believe 1, the ok thing if you make the ok hand gesture people will get mad because at the right angle you see wp or white power. That's stupid as shit and i have a stromg dislike over people who think that way 2. The influencer topic. You have places like cocomelon or ryans world that made kid friendly youtube videos, which would later release actual branding, and most cases would be parents get their stuff in the hopes of claming the kids down. 3. The skibidi and sigma and all that weird terminology crap, honestly, i blame tiktok and instagram for that because there are plenty of edgelords out there that pushed that agenda of being a sigma male and what not. As for the skibidi crap all i can say is that some people took that trend far to the point. It's nothing but brain rot that kids get exposed to at an early age, so they build their vocab around such things.
Teach them how to open a book, not swipe a screen. 😊
We had home economics and computer lab as requirements to graduate from highschool you had to have freshman year, year 9 and 9th grade you have take pre-algebra, English 1 Reading 1 US History 1 Physical Science, Health 1, Home economics 1, Social Studies 1, language Arts 1, Physical Education 1 and introduction Computers and Computer networking 1 then 5 electives either shops, extra main classes, advanced classes, or sports. That's just your 1st year in highschool. And if your in sports you have to keep and maintain a C average or a 75+ score. Anything less you get shoved into a class you don't want.
I wouldn't lay the blame of all this on teachers. What about their parents? I'm gen x, so are my sister and brother.
All of us could read before we left the house for school.
I don't know many gen xers who didn't learn to read at the kitchen table with the funny papers.
I am saddened by the loss of proper grammar; a properly used semi-colon is a thing of beauty.
If there's one thing that requires perfectionism, it's proper writing and grammar.
Idiocracy, here we come 😫
It's all by design.
2:32 critique on the video…they mention “C-drive” then immediately say “Finder”
Whoever wrote the dialog needs to also learn a little about computers and OSes.
4:56 this one actually isnt dumb. Texting is dialectical conversation, its not an essay its not a letter its not a formal conversation in ANY manner. Typing how you speak is how its MEANT to be done in text.
The way people speak about Gen Alpha reminds me heavily of the things older generations would say about Xers as kids. They said we would not amount to anything because we were too lazy being sat in front of the TV. People need to chill and let them live. (I'm not angry btw, ignore my punctuation)
Lazy perhaps. Insane? no. Alpha is insanity.
The oldest of gen Z are 28…gen alpha is equally gen z and millennials fault.
Imma BOOMER, this is insane to me but totally understandable why type when you can tap ? ? ? hmmmm I love your content
Shocking? Sadly, no. It was dis💙ening, though.
Sucks to be gen beta. Lmaooo
Malinial here raising a generation Alfa he's only 2 but I'm worried about the future hopping he breaks the mold his generation needs help
Im glad im towards my end. I just want to see the start of this idiocy world.
It will be even more of a 2 class system in the future.
Good luck kiddo's.
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Gen Alpha has been struggling in their own ways, a great deal, but to be honest Gen Z (sorry bro) has been struggling as well, with some of the same cultural issues. There is a good amount of overlap, which is why we get so frustrated at Gen Z adults. So many are having a hard time functioning out here in the real world. It's like, wtf is going ON??? Some (like yourself) seem to have a good head on their shoulders and came through alright somehow. Gen Z, you've GOT to learn from this huge issue of Alphas and take action, and be very pro-active in how you raise your upcoming Generation Beta children. Because, this stuff isn't working, and it is scary. Put discipline back in the children's' lives. Get rid of the iPads (because they are also called the iPad generation). Demand GOOD curriculum in the schools. Get rid of completely catering to the kids' "feels". Put physical BOOKS back in huge quantities in homes and classrooms. Don't let your kids on the computer until they're like in their mid-teens. Don't let schools just push your kids through grade levels without actually succeeding, that's an injustice they're doing. Make the 3 R's great again. Gen Z, you all are going to have to work hard at reversing this b.s. that a previous generation created. We're counting on you, guys.
Idk why but you remind me a lot of Shaq bro
Has millennial I'm also going to stay here that it's not just as millennials raising these Jen alphas because there's a lot of us millennials that don't even have kids. So believe it or not some of them are gen z parents that have kids.
All this shows is a massive lack of parenting. Its correctable, if parents do their jobs.
It’s not the schools. When I was a kid in the 80’s and 90’s we didn’t have phones and we played outside. We read magazines and books for fun and wrote in diaries. Kids now can’t focus for longer than a tik tok short clip.
Umm, where are the parents?
There was research predating the wolf study that first used the terms Alpha, Beta etc. to describe the literal pecking order of female chickens. Tell _that_ to the big tough Alpha Men. lol
I hope, for your sakes, that Jesus comes back soon.
Im sorry my x geberstion and next generation screwed the alpha generation into be idiotslic drones.
You are successfully creating a talk to tech society that relies on the AI tech behind it and cannot function without it. And ultimately will be more controllable. Sorry for the GenX conspiracy theory
The sad thing is that they’re also being that Black people are being disadvantaged just from being black. They are not teaching anymore that we all have equal opportunity.
is this is akur8 gen alfa is giving eww.
I'm not sure, because I can't read wtf you typed sooooo...