Is Google Making Us Stupid?
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IS GOOGLE MAKING US STUPID?Matt Gillis, Emily Poskrobko,Katie Siemianowski
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Video Intro http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmDv
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Net as a Universal Medium Immediate access to rich stores of
information Comes at a price
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Marshall McLuhan“Media are not just passive channels of information. They supply the stuff of thought, but they also shape the process of thought.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pS_FwVI7Si4&feature=related
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Staccato Quality Freidman- quickly scanning short
passages of text from many sources online
McLuhan- fight to stay focused on longer pieces of writing
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“Skimming Activity” University College London- study of
online research habits Hopping from one source to another Rarely return to one already visited
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Psychologists Say… Maryanne Wolf (Tufts)- web reading puts
efficiency and immediacy above all else Weaken capacity for deep reading Ability to interpret text and make mental
connections is weakened
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Effects on the… SQUIRREL! James Olds- “The brain has the ability to
reprogram itself on the fly, altering the way it functions.”
Scattering attention span, diffusing concentration, can’t process information
Pop-up ads, shortening of articles, hyperlinks (websites cater to our short-attention spans)
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Pancakes! Pancake People: access to many
websites, but don’t retain much information, don’t go in depth (result of skimming activity)
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What Students Don’t Know Research process- students overuse
Google, misuse scholarly databases 30 students interviewed- mentioned
Google 115 times (twice as much as any other search engine)
Students not good at using Google, can’t build a search that produced good sources
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Google (verb) Google Defense:
More info to access Faster understanding More productive as thinkers
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“Our writing equipment takes part in the forming of our thoughts.”
-Nietzsche