bound by these rules. Signature: (submitting your assignment online is equivalent to signing this form) A critical evaluation of “Does the Internet make you Dumber?” (Nicholas Carr June 5‚ 2010) Is the internet making you dumber? According to Nicolas Carr‚ the answer is yes. Carr addresses in his article the impact of the plethora of information the internet provides its users and the impact it has on the way we subsequently think. Carr’s theory is the overload of information is proving to be
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which video games can be beneficial in society. How video can video games improve our society? Did you ever have a problem with your parents because of playing video games? Did you feel bad because they don’t understand the way you are thinking? That remind me of what happened to me last weekend‚ I was playing a video games after I finished my tasks which make my parents saying “Could you stop play this games like a kid and use your free time in something helpful? And they never tried playing
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what end? The Internet is the gateway to a seemingly limitless amount of information. This however‚ is where many people have differing perspectives on the Internet. In Nicholas Carr’s article‚ “Does the Internet Make You Dumber”‚ and Steven Johnson’s article‚ “The Genius of the Tinkerer”‚ these men share their perspective on the Internet. The authors believe that the Internet is a source for lots of information‚ but they differ in that Carr believes that the distractions of the Internet do not allow
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The article called Does the Internet Make You Dumber by Nicholas Carr states that‚ “The Internet grants us easy access to unprecedented amounts of information. Growing body of scientific evidence suggest that the Net‚ with its constant distractions and interruptions‚ is also turning us into scattered and superficial thinkers” (1). Carr states in his article that the Internet affects people in a negative way‚ messing with their attention and memory. Carr also states how focused you are affects your
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Summary/Response: “Does the Internet Make You Dumber?” In the article” Does the Internet Make You Dumber?” Nicholas Carr told us about because of the Internet will distract us‚ down to people can’t have depth thinking when we are working‚ and this is the main idea of this article too. In Carr’s article he gave an example which is from Cornell University‚ some people did an experiment which test two group people in can use internet and can’t use internet ways‚ the result
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The title of this article is Does the Internet Make You Smarter? It is written by Clay Shirky. The article is written in the Wall Street Journal. This journal entry is written to people who are used to the old routines of past and think that the internet is going to make the new generation stupid. This is also written to the new generation that is supposedly going to be so stupid‚ as a challenge to doing something great with the opportunity we have been given with this newfound technology. This journal
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Does The Internet Make You Smarter? Brentney Davis Ivy Tech Community College Cover Letter Dear Professor Downton: In my peer responses‚ I noticed a lot of the students said I didn’t have the questions I proposed answered for them so I went back and included that into my final draft. I also made sure to state the article in the introduction that I am summarizing and responding to. Problems I encountered while revising my draft were the compatibility of the computer I was using with the Microsoft
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a digital world. Technology has taken over our present lives. It does not in any way resemble our past lives. Societies all over the world managed to master these technologies and make the best out of them and so far one could argue they have been successful. However one cannot deny that downsides do exist. People today are unable to extract themselves from the internet and all the technologies that come along with it. The Internet is definitely a complex tool‚ a tool that has ultimately changed
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The influence of Internet on the society "When we succeed‚ we succeed because of our individual initiative‚ but also because we do things together." This statement‚ which was made by President Barack Obama‚ makes us question whether the use of the Internet helps us succeed or makes us stupid and lock ourselves out of the outside world. The Internet bubble increases its volume and density rapidly‚ because the number of people and hours using the internet increases dramatically every day. Consequently
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After a near-death experience one might think “What doesn’t kill me makes me stronger.” What they should be thinking about is what got them into a near-death situation in the first place. Several years ago I had been working in Europe for more than 200 days straight. I was sick of the cold‚ dreary weather I was forced to endure day in and day out in the north of England. So when my friends suggested that I join them on vacation to go scuba diving in the Cayman Islands‚ I jumped at the chance
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