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Respond to “Why Gen Y Is Going to Change the Web”

After reading the article titled “Why Gen Y Is Going to Change the Web”, written by Sarah Perez, posted on Readwriteweb.com, I was delighted. I believe that most people among the ages 13 and 31 belong to Gen Y.

Because I was born in 1989, which is right in the middle of the Y generation, I have all the characters described in the article. For example, I am a “digital native” who is fond of digital devices and use them as much as I can. My view of the world is different from that of elder generation’s. I never trust in ads popped up from the windows, nor do I spend much time in front of a TV. Instead, I search the internet for what I really want to know about. Sometimes, I watch advertisings just for fun, or to catch the creative ideas and enjoy the diverse multimedia images.

Gen Y will lead the world and marketing will follow the way Gen Y prefers.

Response to Programming Is the New Literacy

The article “Programming Is the New Literacy” written by Marc Prensky, posted on edutopia.org emphasizes the importance of knowing how to program in 21^st century.

In my opinion, Prensky was too much emphasis on programming in some ways. Not all kids like to do programming although they are interested in media products. Something for fun can always be fun regardless the profit or career. Kids like to discover videos, photo shop, and flash because they think them like magic that is beyond the fairy stories. This sense of interest does not necessarily connect with future career. On the other hand, reading and writing skills are still valuable. Kids can’t study programming language instead of spoken and written language. If they do so, they must be described by a word mentioned in Prensky’s article, nerdy.

There is no doubt that programming is really important in 21^st century. We cannot predict what the world will be like in 2028 because we couldn’t predict what it would be like in 2008 in 20 years ago. I think programming is not as important as that described in the article. So learning programming is not definitely every person should do. Different person have different habit and special skills that may combine in an applicable structure so that we can make the human society better. We are not robots that have been shaped before doing nothing. If everyone learns to create programs, the world must be scary to me because I feel like people are like robots.