Children In The Information Age

With the rise of technology and the staggering availability of information, the digital age has come about in full force, and will only grow from here. Any individual with an internet connection has a vast amount of knowledge at his fingertips. As long as one is online, he is mere clicks away from Wikipedia or Google, which allows him to find what he needs to know. Despite this, Nicholas Carr questions whether Google has a positive impact on the way people take in information. In his article “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” Carr explores the internet’s impact on the way people read. He argues that the availability of so much information has diminished the ability to concentrate on reading, referencing stories of literary types who no longer

Information literacy is said to be the foundation of the learning process. Unfortunately, as the Internet expands to meet the demand for easy accessible information, people are abandoning the literacy component by not seeking to understand the importance of reliable information to the learning process itself. The objective of this paper is to explore how the scholar, practitioner, leader model is influenced by information literacy, examine the responsibility of each, and provide alternate solutions to meet the challenges.

In this new age of technology, information is becoming more readily available to practically everyone. This revolution has raised one major concern for the students of our generation: that we will not be able to think at all. That this generation will rely so heavily on the ability to access information immediately that we subsequently lose the ability to think for ourselves. This will not happen, however. Although many believe the internet is spoiling our generation, the fact of the matter is that the internet actually enriches our education and aids us in coming up with more educated solutions.

Today, even with the Internet, students still need to learn how to acquire information and retain knowledge. While information is quickly and easily found on the Internet, younger students should only use it to start the process of narrowing down an idea and looking for resources that can further deep

According to the United Nations Agency, approximately 3.2 billion people have used the Internet since 2015, which has made a drastic increase since 2000 with there only being 738 million internet users then. That is almost 43% of the world's population that uses the internet. A controversial topic that is commonly being brought up in today's arguments is the use of the internet and how people believe it is becoming such a detriment to our society, because nobody in this generation acknowledges the value of books, or even prefers to use an actual copy such as a paperback. The internet, such as Google, is being classified as lazy or ignorant, but reading a book is labeled as literate or being knowledgeable. Thesis:“Teaching in the #Age Literacy” by Jennifer L. Nelson and “Is Google Making Us stupid?” by Nicholas Carr, both analyze the pros and cons to having the internet and information at our fingertips, how it is affecting the way we read and analyze text and different scientific experiments that have been put to use to decode why we think the way we do now and how to improve our intelligence.

Many researchers have experimented with the levels of brain activity when an individual is using the internet’s capabilities. The researchers found that when people search the Net, they exhibit a very different pattern of brain activity than they do when they read book-like text. (Carr, 2010, p. 121) The rapid process of searching, finding, and seeing the information you desire is a completely new spectrum of learning. When people are enveloped by the Net’s capabilities, the only normal reaction is complete

Nowadays, if a young adult hears about a new terminology, instead of going to a library and looking it up in an encyclopedia like what his or her parents would do when they were young, he or she will pull out his or her smartphone and “google” it. Thanks to Google and all other commercial Internet companies, we are closer to all kinds of information, both useful and useless knowledge, than any other time in human history. In Nicholas Carr’s article “Is Google Making Us Stupid?”, more than acknowledging the great opportunities which the Internet has brought, Carr brings up his own concern that “the Net is chipping away [his] capacity for concentration and contemplation.” (589) He points out the Net is “tinkering

This essay is informative because it shows how habits, and the mind, are changing because of the internet. People have become dependent on instant information; impatient when needing to research a topic; no longer need to remember information since it can be recalled on the computer; reliant on the

As humans we are constantly learning new information and moving forward as society. To keep up, we are required to learn new information every day. Knowing how to properly find an assess the information we need is a huge asset to our lives. Information literacy is also important for anyone who has a curious mind or would like to do any research of their own. Especially today, the easiest way to get information is through the internet.

In the essay “What’s the Matter with Kids?” Amy Goldwasser addresses that the internet should be another educational tool to make the newer generation succeed their limits in our society. She first states that Common Core, National Endowment for the Arts, and a Nobel Prize winner think that young people today are weak in knowledge of history and literature. The reason they believe that is because the internet stores young people’s trivia. Goldwasser offers insight that the older generation is not expecting that the internet is just a medium and that the generation is afraid that kids know things they don’t.

It is unfortunate to say that everything teenagers search for online is not educational or socially acceptable for that matter. For students who do use the internet to their educational advantage, grade higher than those who abuse their privilege online. As McFarlane states, “computer use alone, without clear objectives and well-designed tasks, is of little intrinsic value” (qtd. In Lavin, Korte, Davies). McFarlane states that structure and guidance is the only way to properly utilize the technology in classrooms.

In Curious by Ian Leslie, Leslie discusses how the term “search” has changed meaning over time. He entertains the idea that search engines have made people demand information at their fingertips with no patience for searching for the answers. Using the idea of general curiosity, diversive curiosity, and epistemic curiosity, the impact of the internet on the way individuals find answers to questions can be examined. The quotation found on pages 55 through 56 of Curious alludes to the idea that the internet is degrading individual’s curiosity by producing information too quick and providing fewer obstacles for answering difficult questions.

Child’s Information- Anoop Singh is thirteen years old male, weighs one hundred twenty- five pounds. He has one older sister and he is the baby at home. He lives with his parents and sister. His grandparents live across the street with his uncle. He is pretty healthy overall except he was overweight couple months ago and Dr. told him to reduce weight and he has been working on it.

The purpose research is to outline the importance of information literacy and recommendations for the future. Specifically, it argues for the importance of Information Literacy to individuals, business, and citizenship. It suggests opportunities to develop information literacy which addresses the information age in school.

Information literacy skills are used for academic purposes, such as research papers and group presentations. They are used on the job—the ability to find, evaluate, use and share information is an essential skill. They are also used in consumer decisions, such as which car or vacuum cleaner to purchase, are critical. Last but not least, they are used by informed citizens in participating fully in a democratic society through voting (Kenney, 2007).