Goldwasser gives examples of the opposing side. She talks about a survey conducted by the common core research organization. "A phone (landline!) Survey of 1,200 17-year-olds, conducted by the research organization common core and released Feb. 26, found our young people to be living in "stunning ignorance" of history and literature." She also mentions …show more content…
She believes that instead of criticizing a new form of learning and communication, people should embrace it, assist and encourage increase in knowledge through this technology. She says, "We need to start celebrating this unprecedented surge, incorporating it as an educational tool instead of meeting it with pop quizzes and suspicious... Once we stop regarding the internet as a villain, stop presenting it as the enemy of history and literature and worldly knowledge, than our teenagers have the potential to become the next great voices of America." Goldwasser is entirely saying in this article that teens aren't being destroyed by the internet. Their focus is just different and it should be accepted. She finalizes her argument by saying, "One of them, 70 years from now, might even get up there to accept the very award Lessing did - and thank the internet for making him or her a writer and a thinker"