Teaching Humility In An Age Of Arrogance By Michael Patrick Lynch

Carr has a more negative opinion about new technology than Cascio. Carr believes the internet and previous technological advancements have caused many changes in society, including reducing people’s ability to focus. Carr says, “What the Net seems to be doing is chipping away my capacity for concentration and contemplation.” This is just one of the many times that he blames the internet for the changes that have occurred in the past decade.

According to Nicholas Carr, the internet has had an effect on how we read, think and live. He provides examples of this throughout his essay. In one of his statements he says “the net is becoming a universal medium, the conduit for most of the information [we receive]” (732) He gathers this information from other colleagues and friends he knows. People can access the internet and in a few clicks to have all the information they need and more. We are no longer limited by local sources to gather our data. At the speed of light, the voices of millions can be heard by all. It is the quick access and our human desire for knowledge that feeds the need for the internet. It has damaged our level of patience and causing our minds to wander. “And what

This writer is in agreement with that claim to some extent, although she may be confusing arrogance with skepticism. There is a sense that we don’t need to know things because we have learned not to take things for face value. After all, we live in an increasingly complex world with new information that takes greater effort to decipher each day, a world where a prestigious new paper like the Washington Post publishes a piece disguised as an academic article written by an author only looking to bait people into buying her book, and then we ask why don’t people

Carr describes how he thinks that the internet is making him lose his focus, he can't read for longer times, makes him uneasy and starting to look for a distraction while reading. Carr explains in depth in the article that how the internet is taking over our lives, we found

At the beginning of his essay, Carr describes his interactions between reading and the internet: “I’m not thinking the way I used to think... Now my concentration starts to drift after two or three pages... For more than a decade now, I’ve been spending a lot of time online” (150). In this passage, Carr depicts how the internet has changed him; he used to be able to concentrate for a long time, but with distractions from the internet he is unable to hold his focus while reading and can only concentrate for “two or three pages.” By including himself in the group of people who are afflicted by the pitfalls of the internet, Carr appears more honest and credible, which makes his argument believable.

Since the rise of technology and smart devices, the public has seen controversy over the benefits and drawbacks of internet usage. Nicholas Carr shared his opinions in the article “From The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains.” In the text, he claims that it seems to be “chipping away” his “capacity for concentration and contemplation” (Carr 5). In addition to that, he does not hesitate to state how “some worry they’re becoming chronic scatterbrains” from using the web (Carr 6). His views are painted purple in this piece of writing, as any reader could infer that Carr possesses a slightly bitter tone when it comes to the interwebs. He displays his dislike for the way it is reshaping our brains and mental function, even going

Not only is the way we view the world being altered, but also the way in which we receive information. Because the internet makes finding the answer to a question so easy, humans are beginning to want everything in an instant. I think the Internet has changed our expectations of comprehending text by reading and analyzing the text, to get it quickly and with giving little to no effort, or as some call it, “brain sweat”. Although it may seem that there is nothing wrong with taking a more efficient way, computers can only do so much. We must be able to recognize social ques and communicate with others. I agree with Carr’s statement that “if we lose those quiet spaces, or fill them up with “content,” we will sacrifice something important not only to ourselves,

Carr believes the Internet is causing us not to think critically anymore. He states, “A few Google searches, some quick clicks on hyperlinks, and I’ve got the telltale fact or pithy quote I was after.” This statement is very relatable with my own personal experiences. I notice when I come across something that requires contemplating, I immediately look to Google for the answer. When something like the Internet is just at the

The author feels that someone has been tinkering with his brain, making it change. In his essay he says, “the net is chipping away my capacity for completion and concentration” (Carr 333). Carr goes on to mention how the Internet has been a godsend tool to help him as a writer (332). He then says how it also has become the “universal medium to access information”. To support this, he cites Marshall McLuhan. He noted that in the 1960’s the “media are not passive channels of information”. It feeds us information to think about and also “tells” us how to process it. Because of this Carr explains how the Internet forces him to skim through articles instead of really concentrating and taking the time to read like he once did. Carr uses an online blogger as an example of this because he stopped reading books even though his major was literature in college. The online blogger, Scott Karp, thinks it was the way he thinks has changed not the way he reads. Another blogger, Bruce Friedman, agrees his ability to read long articles has been affected by the Web, describing his thinking as having a “staccato” quality because of scanning short passages of text on the

In paragraph three, he expresses himself stating: “ And what the Net seems to be doing is chipping away my capacity for concentration and contemplation. My mind now expects to take in information the way the Net distributes it.” (2) While his statement correlates with multiple examples from his close friends and from research programs that he provided throughout his article, can we really hold the internet accountable for our lack of concentration and our reading deficiency? Carr, does not accept the simple fact, that people that can’t concentrate and cannot critically analyze what they are reading from the Net, are those that have lost their self discipline to differentiate what’s important and what is not. People definitively, should hold themselves accountable for their own defectiveness of reading, and most importantly discontinue bashing of the internet. In addition Carr, also disregards that the internet has giving us all the opportunity to expand our minds and to elevate our creativity which will lead us to continue to embrace innovation and endless opportunities for everyone in our

I kind of agree with him, although he made some valid points. He said that people are not interested as much in reading and how he finds himself skimming through articles that are more than few paragraphs. I also do find myself skimming through articles sometimes when it comes to reading the article. When I was back home, we didn’t had access to internet and we need to find something or do research about something we would go to the library and read a lot of books and try to find information that was required for the assignments. We even had to write it down on the paper because there were no computers as well. But when I came to United State everything was so different I learned about computer and how we can find any kind information by looking it up. In high school, everything was on the computer email, homework assignments and even presentations. As time pass by I did started noticing the difference I started using the computer more and paper less to form my thoughts because I felt it was to much. For example, Fredrich Nietzsche, a writer sometime in 1882, Carr explained Nietzsche got the typewriter when writing was becoming a huge task for him, until him and his friend started noticing the change in him “Our writing equipment takes part in the forming of our thoughts.” It made me wonder that how I use to think when I was back home. I did notice change in me, as time pass by I stopped going to the library and started using google for every little information that I needed. As Carr mentioned ““Someone or something has been tinkering with my brain, remapping the neural circuitry, reprogramming the memory.” I believe that it’s giving us all the answers that we need without even working hard for it. When we need something, or don’t understand something, the first thing people do is look up on the google and I also use google multiple times in a day. We can find so much

In Carr’s description of the Internet, he explains why it is affecting humans. He leaves the technology as a virus that absorbs our commands, injects information into us, and then scatters and spreads our concentration. However, before labeling the Internet as a human made pest that has gone wild, Carr makes one last appeal to ethos by stating possible benefits of this rapidly capable means of statement as well as his own faults of being a worrywart.

Carr discusses the effects that the Internet has on our minds and the way we think, as well as the way media has changed. Our minds no longer focus. When in conversation with people we are constantly distracted by the technological advances our era has brought. Text messages, emails, pop culture drama has all taken

Every teacher has their own bias. The people who write state standards and state tests also have biases. Students are biased on what they think they need to pay attention to in class. Teachers, state governments and students each believe that they know what is most important in their separate fields. None of these groups like to be told that they are teaching, writing, or learning wrong. However, it is still necessary for people to remain open to criticism because criticism may lead to an improvement down the road. But each group needs another group to be able to call them out on these issues. This is called staying humble. Intellectual humility is admitting to not knowing everything in a field of interest but still being willing to accept criticism in order to further knowledge of a subject and become more capable of doing a job better than before.

Carr’s entire argument is how the internet is making the population weak minded, which is easily clearly arguable with the resources available to us now. Some examples of resources are online school, library databases, educational games, daily newspapers, and even books are now sold online and school is being provided online to be more accessible to us. The hyperlinks that Carr mentions in his article as we “power browse” (1), in fact the internet/google is more helpful in going further into a subject being studied. For instance if someone is trying to research a sickness, the search starts with google, entering the sickness which leads them to an article, possibly Wikipedia, then a hyperlink is introduced to a subject they aren’t educated on, one would read further to gain more helpful