is google making us stoopid
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Is Google Making Us Stoopid?
Jaclyn Lee Parrott
Ruth Pagell adapted from Rich Gazan
Is Google Making Us Stupid? By Nicholas Carr Media not passive channels of information-supply stuff of
thought and shape process ~Marshall McLuhan, media theorist 1960s
Thinking is changing… Internet controlling… Capacity for concentration and contemplation “We are not only what we read… we are how we read.”
~Maryanne Wolf, developmental psychologist
Technology used shapes neural circuits inside brains affecting cognition
Ruth Pagell adapted from Rich Gazan
“in the future the system must be first”~Frederick Winslow Taylor
Plastic Brain“intellectual technologies”Intellectual ethic obscureThe perfect algorithmGoogle, “the perfect search engine”
Ruth Pagell adapted from Rich Gazan
Driven to distractionIs intelligence only output of mechanical
process? “Cease to exercise their memory and become
forgetful” ~Socrates on the development of writingIntellectual laziness, weaker minds ~Humanist
Hieronimo Squarciafico on Gutenberg printing press
Ruth Pagell adapted from Rich Gazan
Skeptical of skepticism“Perhaps… from our hyperactive, data-stoked
minds will spring a golden age of intellectual discovery and universal wisdom”
“Deep reading… is indistinguishable from deep thinking” ~MaryAnne Wolf
Wide and thin
Ruth Pagell adapted from Rich Gazan
How Stupid is Google Making Us? ~William Badke
Rapid growth in technology – “shorter and faster”Digital natives vs. digital immigrantsReading text vs. internet sessionsBrain trainingDigital experience-rapid processing of data –
reject and synthesize
Ruth Pagell adapted from Rich Gazan
iBrain GenerationPriorities are differentProblem: Doing arises from knowingOptimize brain use through shaping
information literacy skillsResearch is a deep thought exercise
Ruth Pagell adapted from Rich Gazan