Tuesday, August 23, 2011
August 23 - In Class Response
I thought it was ironic that the piece we read in the Carolina Reader ("Is Google Making Us Stupid?" by Nicholas Carr) was about how technology makes it so that our brains have a harder time focusing on reading hard copies of things. I found this ironic because I had just finished reading the first chapter in our Writing Arguments book, and I had to kind of force myself to focus on what I was reading because my mind kept wondering back to other things. I also think that Carr's opinion that the internet is making hard copies of things obsolete is true, because it's a lot easier to just go online and find information than to go to a library and look through books.
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Yeah I agree with what you're saying as well as what Carr said. The ADD epidemic is definitely becoming a problem, whether it's a short of long-term one...no one knows. I think our brains have actually adapted to being more able to concentrate on something on a screen than in a book, whether it's words or not. It's crazy.
ReplyDeleteI had the same problem with focusing to finish the Writing Arguments chapters and found myself reading by thinking about something completely different. our ability to stay focused is definitely decreases from Google searches.
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