Friday, October 21, 2011
Tools That change The Way We Think
I strongly believe that the internet has a huge affect on the way we think today. The internet has made our lives much more fast pace and causes us to want the quickest and easiest answer. Take writing a research paper for example; just decades ago students would make daily trips back and forth to the library, spending hours quoting books and searching through encyclopedias. These days, a decent research paper can be knocked out in a couple of hours with the click of a few buttons. This has dramatically changed the way we think. While in most ways modern technologies like the internet have benefited us, I believe in other ways they have made us unappreciative and lazy. We no longer appreciate and gift the same way because it was most likely ordered and shipped with the click of a button. The internet has changed the way we think in a thousand different ways and some of them are negative.
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Because we as a class are learning so much more about online security and filter bubbles, do you think that eventually everyone will learn how to program the internet the right way? Or do you think everyone will just get worse and end up being mindless drones, forever lazy and not taking learning seriously?
ReplyDeleteThat's a very good question Kira. To be honest, I don't have a strong opinion, but I do believe that the age that people learn how to us the internet will get younger and younger. This reminds me of the video that Dr. Preston showed of the infant with the ipad. I think the real question here is not will more children learn to use the internet at a younger age, but will they learn how to use it the smart and safe way?
ReplyDeleteBriana Stinn