Is Google, with all of its information at the tip of our fingers actually making us dumber than we are? On July 1st 2008 an article was written by Nicholas Carr titled “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” and this article was taken differently by many people. He talks about how he has problems reading ever since he discovered Google. Carr states “my concentration often starts to drift after two or three pages. I get fidgety, lose the thread, begin looking for something else to do” (2) and he blames Google is the problem. He believes the constant multi-tasking and skimming over articles on the internet has hindered the way we read. Steven Johnson however will somewhat disagree with the article and writes his own article title “Yes, People Still Read, But Now Its Social.” Mr.…
Critical Analysis of “Is Google Making Us Stupid” and “African National Identities Can’t Be Built on Soccer Fever”…
Is Google Making Us Stupid? Nicholas Carr asks this question in his Article published in The Atlantic Magazine and poses the readers to give it some thought. Carr is of the opinion that the internet is changing the way people think and how their minds work; hence he argues that this has a negative effect on the mind of people. Carr suggests that, people’s intellectual lives are becoming like a piece of work in industrial manufacturing that are built for maximum speed and efficiency (Carr n.p.). He is of the opinion that, Google works with search engines is heading to build manmade intelligence on a large scale. Carr thinks that, people should be doubtful of the internet because of the different ways it may be changing the way people think. In my opinion, when I was reading through the article one experience that I could relate to is one that Carr describes as feeling unable to read long texts. I agree with Carr that, people spend much of their time dealing with…
Stop mindless surfing the internet, and get some stuffs done. Something my mother said all the time. Today, internet has become a huge part of our daily life, we gather information, socialize with our friends and even shop online. The internet has definitely become an essential part of our daily life.…
As the value of deep reading increased along with the creation of books did we loose a part of our primative selfs? Human brains are not hardwired to be able to think undistracted or to be completely immersied in one thing that you cannot be aware of your surroundings. In “Is Google Making Us Stupid” and “The Deepening Page” by Nicholas Carr the author explains the rise in value of undistracted reading and the how technology took away that skill but brought us closer to our primal way of thinking.…
In Nicholas Carr’s piece, “Is Google Making Us Stupid”, he makes an argument many people might not ever consider. He claims that the internet has actually affected how human beings process information. He begins to illustrate this point using a scene from Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey where HAL, the supercomputer, is being disassembled by the man the machine nearly (purposefully) killed. Carr emphasizes the fact that the computer could “feel” its’ “brain” being taken away as the man stripped it of its memory circuits. This is the tone that Carr sets to then place his theory on the reader.…
From all the readings that we have done in class throughout the year, my favorite reading is “Is Google making us stupid?” By Nicholas Carr, it is one of the interesting and the funniest essay I ever read. In the essay, Carr talks about how people rely on Google for everything. This essay is funny because carr talks about a guy who used google for everything and talks about how us humans are so dependent on Google that we can’t even read books because we want the answer in the quickest way possible. I can relate to all this because in high I was really dependent on Google, I thought Google gave all the answers but not all the answers and I learned my lesson when I used to get answers wrong sometimes. This essay was funny but taught me a lot…
“Smack!!” the sound a test makes as it lands on the desk reading “ 52, put your phone away, you’ll do better”. Our school should participate in the National Shut Down Your Screen Week so students will think, becoming an a addiction, and missing out on life.…
The essay “Does the Internet Make You Smarter?” talks about how the internet has evolved from classic print and how it affects people in today’s society. The author talks about what people have the capability to create using the internet and electronics. The author also talks about the mediocre things that are being published on the internet. Throughout the essay the author talks about the issues that society came upon when the first printing press was created and how it is similar to what we are encountering today. Going along in this essay the author brings up how there are things that get released that can help people of today and there are also things created that aren’t as beneficial to society. He goes on to say that what is created that can benefit us takes much longer for the widespread of it than the time it takes for the widespread of something less important.…
Some might have said that Google invent new innovative ways to learn. In “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” Nicholas Carr’s that the internet is a threat to our brains, but there is no evidence of such cause. I found that the internet is a tool when it comes to reading, studying, and anything that I am able to find on the internet. We are in a world that enable us to learn much than in a book could which might lead to believe that technology can improve teaching and learning, but there still some continue to insist in traditional reading or writing. For example, the baby Boomer generation might be more resistant to rapid technology changes and prefer to pick a book instead figuring out how or what technology could improve one reading or writing which a lot generation X prefer to do. We have to integrate both generations to find median ground to understand digital application can improve teaching and learning due to why literacy matter. We need to able to guide the…
Do you think teenagers today always being on the internet will help develop them into becoming deeper thinkers or better writers later on in life? According to Amy Goldwasser, author of the article, “What’s the Matter with Kids today?” she states that more teenagers today would rather sit and play around with their electronics than do homework for school and that electronics seem to be taking over their lives (667). When teenagers seem to be more interested in their electronics such as the internet and texting, than they are with their school work and doing homework, Amy Goldwasser states that with having access to the internet also may make teenagers become deeper thinkers, and also may help them become better writers (669). For example, in agreement with Amy Goldwasser I have used the internet to obtain historical information and images for a high school social studies project. Just last week, my brother used the internet to download a copy of President Obama 's State of the Union speech before it aired on television. Lastly, by using the internet, it helps strengthen children 's typing skills and vocabulary skills.…
Abdullah, Mardziah Hayati.” The Impact of Electronic Communication on Writing”.Eric Digests.October 25, 2010. Indiana University. 27 July 2013 <http://www.ericdigests.org/2004-1/impact.html>.…
A quick Google search of the words “write my essay for me” provides the searcher with over sixty-eight million results. Sixty-eight million options for a student to not have to write their paper. Sixty-eight millions options for a student to essentially pay their way through an essay. If those numbers aren’t scary enough, many people do not realize the extent of copyright laws and so those students or individuals who are just “borrowing” sentences and expressed ideas from other authors are inherently plagiarizing. The world has changed a lot in the last 20 years, to the extent where we now have a global interface that can tell us stories, facts, show us movies, television shows, music, and introduce us to ideas and thoughts in literally the blink of an eye.…
Technology causes students to be poor readers because when people read online, they do not read deeply and cannot understand the meaning. Technology is making people lazy because when students read article on the web, they only read the summary, and do not understand the meaning what they are reading. University College London conducted a study that showed, when people read an article online they only read the summary and they avoid the reading the whole article. Maryanne Wolf, developmental psychologist at Tufts University and the author of Proust and the Squid: The Story of Science of the Reading Brain emphasizes that “We are not only what we read, We are how we read. The style of reading promoted by the net [...] is weakening our capacity for the kind of deep reading.” It illustrates that people cannot focus deeply when they are reading and the internet is making them avoid reading for meaning. When students lose the ability to read deeply online they cannot analyze and interpret what they are reading. This will hinder them from learning critical thinking skills.…
O 'Connor, Amanda. "Instant Messaging: Friend or Foe of Student Writing?" School of Education at Johns Hopkins University-Instant Messaging: Friend or Foe of Student Writing? Newhorizons ForLearningOnlineJournal, 2005. Web. 03 Oct. 2012.…