google

Our reading this week about whether or not google is chipping away at our minds was an interesting theory. I think the idea that google is teaching its users' brains to expect learning in a short period affects more of the older crowd. To my generation, the internet is all we know. I feel that from day one of school how to use a computer. We've never really had to use our brains to it's full capacity like the generations before us. I think the internet is a wonderful tool and I learn so much from spending a few hours online researching various topics. I'm not sure that if we didn't have the internet that I would take time to look up information I'm interested in learning more about. For older generations who are still slowly learning how to use the computer may not understand because they grew up learning a different way. They spent their time in school gathering information from books in the library to write a paper whereas students today spend half the time googling the research and type their papers.