However, Google has a huge amount of information and much of it could be wrong. For example, the Wikipedia website is not a good source of information because normal people write the information in it and not specialists. Therefore, if we get wrong information, then our knowledge would be wrong. Carr also discussed that the Internet is an imaginary world, and all the people are behind the computer screens. Therefore, whenever we access a website, Google can collect more information about us, and if we access more websites, then that would be easier and faster for them to collect the information they want.
The use of technology is affecting students especially in high school and college. According to Turkle, today’s college students have little experience with the right to privacy as they leave trails of everything they have done online, unlike previous generations who have worked hard to protect their privacy. In her article, Turkle also describes the use of online avatars as both a positive and negative image in children’s lives. Some children invest far too much time developing their online personality while role-playing offers a safe place in a world full of crime, terrorism, and drugs. As a consequence this retards their social growth
Today, the internet is one of the most powerful tools throughout the world. In the article, “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” in the magazine The Atlantic, the author, Nicholas Carr, recounts his complications with concentration while reading extended articles and books. He claims these difficulties may be caused by an increased time on the internet. He thinks it changes the way we think and it is affecting our brain. People are losing concentration easier than before internet was created.
“Is Google Making us Stupid?” While the use of the World Wide Web is extensively accessible to people old and young, the use of internet search engines rank high on the top list of accessed sites on the web. While some will argue the resourcefulness of such sites, others would agree that searching within these sites restricts the mind from using its full potential due to ease of access in retrieving data. With data, statistics, facts, media sources, and electronic databases all being available online, information now as people see, is only a click away. Though this poses to be a mere convenience to users, this does not mean people are smarter or more intelligent due to the fact that they can “GOOGLE” terms and find answers to information needed. People, who believe that search engines are great sources for retrieval of information, do not understand the need to acquire knowledge on a more personal level.
Google is used as an example of how we have begun a new form or way of reading and thinking as we hyperlink or way through the web instead of going to a library to read periodicals. In many ways it has begun to remap the way we think and process information compared to those that are used to a more traditional sense of learning, which has weakened our ability to have a deep thought and even or concentration has diminished. This article made me feel uneasy about the future as the importance of technology increases. First of all, it made me realize how much of a distraction technology actually is. The internet has made it hard for me to stay focused when reading things you can't learn quickly.
Whereas reading the local newspaper or reading a classic novel like “The Great Gatsby” by F Scott Fitzgerald would provide a more intellectual purpose. Goldwasser believes that teenagers look up websites that are educational, that is not the case. A lot of time that is spent on the internet is used on social networking sites. Goldwasser also mentions that parents often go to their teenager for help when it comes to modern technology. I would have to agree with her statement but argue that perhaps parents should ask for help on how to use the technology itself.
The online open source encyclopedia Wikipedia has become a serious controversial issue in the academic world. Educators all over the world are perplexed at the idea that students should be able to use Wikipedia as a credible source. Two college professors wrote two essays with completely different view points on the issue. On the side against using Wikipedia as a scholarly source is Professor Neil L. Waters with his article “Why You Can’t Cite Wikipedia in My Class.” Then on the opposing side of the argument is Professor Mark A. Wilson with his article “Professors Should Embrace Wikipedia”. Both Waters and Wilson made some convincing points but Waters came out on top with better more convincing factual information to persuade the readers the downfalls
The World Wide Web has changed the way we think and how we live our everyday lives, but is it molding our lives? Carr stated “I now have almost totally lost the ability to read and absorb a longish article on the web or in print” (Carr 963). In Is Google Making us Stupid? By Nicholas G. Carr, He brings to light our diminishing ability to focus on the printed word, (Books, magazines, newspapers; etc.) changes in our thought process, and the influences the Web has on our brain.
These sudden events may be true with Carr, but I don’t necessarily agree with Carr’s idea of Google making us stupid. In my opinion, Google is just making us lazy. According to Carr on page 337, “Research that once required days in the stacks of periodical room of libraries can now be done in minutes”. Agreeing with this statement came fairly easily to me because in my experience I have found that I don’t have to invest as much time digging through mass amounts of information that I don’t need in order to get to what I do want. It gets me straight to the point of what I am looking for allowing me to be able to focus my attention to reading and
It depends on people’s situation how they utilize Google in their life. Nicholas Carr talks about his experience as a writer, and how he experienced difficulty in concentrating on reading a text for a long time, as well as the decrease in his ability to think in a creative manner. He argues that Internet is negatively affecting our capacity to think and read. In other words, it changes how our brain is developing. There are many people who argue about Google having good or bad benefits, but it seems that many people utilize Google to expand their knowledge, and find information through World Wide Web, on the other hand, it seems that Google is negatively shaping the way we are processing and interpreting information.