Some of the common use of World Wide Web is to gain knowledge in research. When students are doing their home works, instead of going to the library and spending a little more time, they just need to go in front of the computer and search for the topic that they are researching on. Using the internet as a learning resource is somehow more efficient than books when it comes to time. But when it comes to reliability, books are still the best options for us to research since anybody can write, edit, and publish an article on the Web. Internet helped us to communicate with the ones we loved especially those who are far from us.
The Internet is a technology that changed the way we read. The Internet causes us to loose focus or to just skim through information really quickly. The need to get information quickly, rather than spending the time to read a book, is due to the Internet. When I need to read something for a class I would much rather go to Spark Notes on the Internet, rather than read a complete book. The Internet has helped reading to evolve.
Search engines are comprised of millions of information that everyday people have uploaded or placed onto the internet. When it comes to academic research, we want to make sure that the information doesn’t come from every Tom, Joe, and Harry, because every Tom, Joe, and Harry is not always correct. Academic research is based upon the reliable information that we find according to the credibility of the source that we gather the information from. This is where Ashford’s University Library comes into play. The Ashford University library is a digital database that has reliable and credible information that has been approved by scholarly advisors, peers, and others that have gained valuable experience in that field of
Primary sources are those that bring us closest to an actual record of events as they occured, and usually involve data such as eye-witness first account public records and publishing's. Secondary sources are the most common form used, and take the form of anything recorded after an event's occurence as a reference point. Books; journal's, magazines and anything recorded after an event has taken are the most frequently used. Quotations and other famous persons perspective of something can also be very useful as a reference to researching anything. It is usually however due to modern technology and access to public record that we usually cite specific pieces of data and information from the internet's various scholar based search engine and published encyclopaedia's.
Where as with PC, you can replace individual items if you must replace anything. There are thousands of options to upgrade your PC, right at your local best buy or computer store. In the long run, due to the fact that PCs are less expensive and have a longer lifespan, they are honestly the best to go with. In the business world, PCs are still what we are using, with Microsoft office and Windows. Overall, if you are wanting a quality machine for less money, PC is definitely the way to go.
Most people find reading books easier so don’t some people like me because I prefer researching on the internet to searching for stuff in the library. Some people will support Carr by saying that the internet really makes us dumber but I’m on the opposite side because I defiantly think it makes as smarter especially with this technology that keeps improving as years come. All these things we have today and are able to access to will not be available without the internet because people or researchers wouldn’t have been able to get accurate information about what they were looking
They can choose to engage in deep thinking activities. Too much of anything is not good for any one, and this also applies to internet usage. Scholars say that the price of technology is alienation and that this indicates that the more distracted an individual becomes, the less able they are to experience human emotions such as empathy and compassion. It is still too early to tell what the results of the future effects of the internet, but as Carr states, “An intellectual technology exerts its influence by shifting the emphasis of our thought. As the brain adapts to the new medium, the most profound changes will take place over several generations’
According to one article in Science magazine, we're not necessarily losing our ability to remember things. Rather, the internet is changing how we remember things. Certain types of memory are improving as well, when the brain reroutes how we recall information, it develops different types of memory capabilities. Also, multitasking sometimes makes your memory worse as well. In other words, as we get older, we have a harder time with distractions online with the Internet, Facebook, and such.
His primary arguments seemed to be examples of his own difficulties. He states “Immersing myself in a book or a lengthy article used to be easy…That’s rarely the case anymore.” He continues to write of how his mind starts to wander after a few pages, and he looks for something else to do; reading has become a struggle. Carr says the culprit is the Internet itself, basing his accusation on how in today’s society we can obtain information after just a few minutes on the Net. The media today has started to give us information in as limited amount of words they can allow, so we as users can skim the information we desire then move onto the next sliver of info. He believes our minds have been altered to expect all information the way the Net hands it out: “in a swiftly stream of moving particles,” as he put it.
Tevin Hutchinson 11/10/2012 English 102 Technology plays a huge role in our everyday life. I do believe that technology has made our lives easier, but it also has made us more dependent on the technology itself. When using the internet for a dictionary you could easily get distracted. Anyone can put anything on the internet, so what you find might not be accurate. Most people find that looking things up on the internet is distracting because you are already on the web so why not check YouTube for a funny video, or update your status on the social network.