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Is Google Making Us Stupid

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Ahmet Akin
Mr. Booker
ENGL1302
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September 26, 2021
Is Google Making Us Stupid?
The convenience and advanced technology brought to us by the Internet is indeed a life-
changing phenomenon. It provides us with a great amount of easy access information, with just
one click on Google, we can have a grasp of literally everything. Internet users have their own
search engine at their fingertips which became a part of daily activity of most people at any age.
On the Atlantic cover, a statement made by Nicholas Carr is that he emphasized the effect of the
usage of internet to our minds which yields to loss of concentration and attention span which
became a dilemma for most educators. Our minds were made to operate as data-processing units
at a high speed and instead of doing this to sort out a problem we look for another way that till
help us solve the problem for us. With all the information that we have now which are being
outsourced, the ability of the human mind to store information decreases. We remembered less
and less information as we have the information at a reach. As stated in the book of Bauerlein, et
al., (2009) the young people are misusing the information available. Instead of using the Internet
to search more about the lesson presented in class, most of them will use it as a source where
they do not explore the variety and deepness of information. They click the first thing they see on

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the web and just skim through it that employs today’s youth to be equipped with only simple
vocabulary. Carr’s statement speaks a thousand words when he says. “By reshaping our minds,
the internet is robbing us of the ability to think critically and creatively.” To clarify things, he
did not deny the fact of the convenience it brought but the downsides of it too.
When one searches on Google, it usually doesn’t read the whole article at first glance but
instead we do what Carr’s called it the “power browse” or the process of jumping from one article
to another and scanning them. This is a new style of reading nowadays, that weakens our capacity
to formulate critical thinking and conduct deep reading as it puts out efficiency. As stated by
Maryanne Wolf, “We are not only what we read but we are how we read.” This new style of
reading or power browse is only a mere way of decoding information and we are largely
disengaged on the material itself. The technological advancements we have experienced this past
15 years or more also have its own implications when it comes to education. According to the
article posted by Psychology Today, the education system must also be rigid enough to keep up
with the fast-paced evolving technology. If the way of learning today is very different from the
traditional one, the same shall be assessed and improve their learning models. If school systems
don’t adapt to the changing needs of the students’ then it will bypass them which makes them
irrelevant. There lies a crucial role in education where decoding and comprehension skills must be
explicitly taught that will help young minds to develop the aspects of deep reading online. Page
also said it in the article that Google is planning improve at a larger scale and she stated that we’d
be better off when we have all the information in the world. But this is only a glance on how they
view intelligence, they think that the human mind is outdated, and they can replace it at greater
heights. It was argued by Wolf et al., (2009) that deep reading is indistinct from deep thinking
whereas deep reading means the array of processes that drives forward the comprehension,

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Akin 1 Ahmet Akin Mr. Booker ENGL1302 ID: 56574816 September 26, 2021 Is Google Making Us Stupid? The convenience and advanced technology brought to us by the Internet is indeed a lifechanging phenomenon. It provides us with a great amount of easy access information, with just one click on Google, we can have a grasp of literally everything. Internet users have their own search engine at their fingertips which became a part of daily activity of most people at any age. On the Atlantic cover, a statement made by Nicholas Carr is that he emphasized the effect of the usage of internet to our minds which yields to loss of concentration and attention span which became a dilemma for most educators. Our minds were made to operate as data-processing units at a high speed and instead of doing this to sort out a problem we look for another way that till help us solve the problem for us. With all the information that we have now which are being outsourced, the ability of the human mind to store information decreases. We remembered less and less information as we have the information at a reach. As stated in the book of Bauerlein, et al., (2009) the young people are misusing the information av ...
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