by Tomorrow’s Professor, Stanford University Center for Teaching and Learning
Serious thought gives way to skimming and multitasking. If, while perusing the articles of this month’s Prism, you’ve paused to check your e-mail, read online news, blog, tweet, connect on Facebook, catch a YouTube video, buy on Amazon, or perform one of any number of other Web activities that now permeate our lives, then author Nicholas Carr has a message for you: It’s time to consider how our constant, often disjointed engagement with the World Wide Web is changing us – both individually and as a society. In a widely discussed 2008 Atlantic Monthly article, Carr asked, “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” His answer has sometimes been interpreted as an antitech creed, yet many recognized themselves in Carr’s descriptions of faltering ability to concentrate and the suspicion that the Internet is a key contributor.
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