The Shallows: What The Internet Is Doing To Our Brains

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Chelsey Holmes April 20, 2012 Christopher Black English 1213: Comp. 2 Essay #4 Technological advancement has been seen to both hinder and help society today both in education and the work place, but literacy acquisition is being lost with the advancement of this new technology or it may just be changing into a whole new concept. This paper uses outside sources and personal opinion on whether or not literacy acquisition is being lost by the advancement of technology. Nicholas Carr, recent bestseller of, The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains, writes what he believes our current use of electronic media is doing to our thought process, “Calm, unfocused, undistracted, the linear mind is being pushed aside by a new kind of…show more content…
For the purposes of this essay the definition for literacy acquisition that I would like to use is, “Literacy acquisition, that is, the ways in which learners acquire literacy, is important for its instructional implications and for its impact on the way that literacy itself is defined.” (Sensenbaugh 1) I chose this definition because it was the closest definition for which I wanted to describe literacy acquisition…show more content…
Students have said that, “…a computer made it easier for them to correct mistakes (89%), allowed them to present ideas more clearly (76%), and that computers allowed them to be more creative, concent5rate more and even encouraged them to write more often (60%). In contrast, two of the most common reasons why youngsters indicated they were not good writers involved an inability to write neatly (23%) or not being very good at spelling (21%).(Technology and Literacy- Creating Better Writers 1). This may clearly show to some that technology is a necessity in schools and that with the help of technology our children can further their education into a more knowledgeable
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