While reading this article, I was noticing a few things that he was mentioning that I was doing that very minute. Nicholas Carr talks about the intention span and not being able to pay attention while reading a book or an article. I have that problem all the time, whether the articles online or if its in a book or magazine. I feel like a lot of people have a hard time focusing in general, and I don’t feel like google is the issue. I think google is a very important website that all students use including elementary students through graduates. I feel like people depend on google, which I don’t think is always a good thing because it does lack the intelligence of ones brain. About 10 years ago we would have to go to the library and read through 10+ books just to find the information your looking for, and while you do that you come across more information that could be helpful or couldn’t be helpful but you still are learning and taking in more information opposed to looking up a specific answer and getting hundreds of websites for that one specific title or phrase that you were looking for. So through reading this article, I feel like googles a good source of information but it does lack the importance of education and further learning.
We are indeed becoming dependent on Google, Erin.
ReplyDeleteI'll note that people still check multiple books out of the library for research, esp. at my level - but even that is an inreasingly rare phenomenon.