People and Internet learning

In the article “Is Google making us stupid?” by Nicholas Carr, it is described how people's brains are changing as they adjust to the internet's way of thinking and displaying information. This idea makes sense to me because people pick up so much from what they learn from, it does not seem like a huge leap to me for the way we become accustomed to learning from the internet affects how we learn elsewhere.

As we get used to jumping from article to article and only skimming an article at most, our minds get impatient for us to move on whenever we try to read anything in depth or of any considerable length. Just keeping track of where you arfe or even understanding what you are reading becomes a chore and even difficult.

Overall, I do not think Google (the internet) is making us stupid. I think that it is simply changing how we process information, and making us lazy. With so much information simply being handed to us all the time, it becomes harder for us to really search in- depth. We get used to pulling out article titles' meanings, and fail to read the details fully if at all. This in turn makes it hard to learn in the first place.

For us to fix this problem, we could do a couple things. We could either moderate exactly how much research and learning we do online, or we could change they way we learn online. For the first resolution, which I think would be the most ideal, the best course of action is more pleasure reads; not assigned books that no one likes to read. If kids are allowed to read whatever they waant, then they will have a better time reading, instead of having to grudgingly work at reading something they hate. For the second solution, I think that if we got into the habit of fully reading and comprehending articles online, we would have a better time understanding other things, like books.