Technology vs Mankind

Growing up as a child I've always used the internet as a source to chat with my friends and family online, to do my homework, and play games. I’ve been on the internet since I was 10 years old. It’s a reliable source I always go to answer my questions. Our society now relies on the internet to answer all of our questions on a daily basis. In Nicholas Carr article his beliefs are that the internet has changed our society in many ways and it has created a negative effect to our way of thinking. However, the internet has provided a positive interaction to college students knowledge, such as YouTube videos offering tips on how to fix things, learn different languages, and how to solve classroom related problems.

Firstly, advancing of internet lead to convenient for students to receive informations which are able to influence students’ idea or view more directly. By giving lecture to impart knowledge, teachers’ forms of teaching are always monotonous for students to receive, although they can use projectors or hold some activities in class. By contrast, on the internet, informations appear as not only the forms of documents or articles, but also forms of audio, movies, cartons, computer games, pictures and motion graph. With multitude types of forms, students tend to choose the best way for themselves to understand and remember. Nowadays, it is impossible for us to live without internet, which means internet has already been full of the world, so that it is now affecting every people

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.

Rightly dubbed the information highway, the Internet today offers not only the best in quality merchandise and up to date information, it also offers a myriad of educational experiences for those desiring to further learn about the many cultures found on this planet.

After reading the article “Literacy Debate: Online, R U really reading?” by Motoko Rich, I believe that the internet is very beneficial in many ways but I also believe reading books is important at certain times. As being a teenager the internet has become a far better source when it comes to research. The internet is very quick on answers unlike books where you have to flip through pages for an answer to a simple question. Now why would someone choose to do more when they can do less with a simple click of a button? The internet is very useful; without the internet we wouldn’t have been able to have the opportunity to have this discussion here. On the contrary, the internet might be much faster with information but it is not always reliable.

I believe that the Internet is changing how we as a society think and comprehend information because I have experienced this in my personal life. “My mind isn’t going--so far as I can tell-- but it’s changing” (Carr par. 2). Carr recognizes that his mind is changing and I recognize that as well because of such heavy Internet and technology use. When I was younger, I used to be a fairly avid reader. Then I was introduced to the Internet and became more dependent on it for schoolwork, projects and really just for everyday life. My affinity for reading is pretty much gone do to my dependence on the Internet. A lot of my friends experienced this too. “When I mention my troubles with reading to friends, many say they’re suffering from similar afflictions” (Carr par. 6). A great majority of my friends would agree with this quote as much as I do. My friend circle have given up reading because of their major dependence on the Internet. It also does not help that my generation was born into this world of overwhelming technology. We have grown up with the world at our fingertips, and reading books has become a secondary way to obtain information. It is even an annoyance to read sometimes because books are cumbersome and heavy. While the Internet is handy for many things, it appears to be altering our minds even if we are oblivious to it. It changes how information is presented and processed by our brains. The Internet is a great tool for finding information, but its distractions and sheer overwhelming volume of websites creates shortened attention spans and lack of

Author Nicholas Carr states that the internet is, “making us think superficially.” The only information these students are discerning, are the words in their screens, telling them facts. This does not give students a chance to think strong enough

It appears traditional teaching methods in many schools across the nation are undergoing significant changes, mostly due to the technological world we live in, and if this does not concern you, it should. It is not only that printing has replaced cursive writing; spell check has replaced the dictionary, or researching any topic has become a relatively easy task with Internet availability, the effects of these changes go much deeper. While there is no harm in saving time and using different or more profound methods that surely have made our lives easier, the simple fact is these things are mechanical advances made from computer technology, but they will never replace a person’s brain, analytical thinking skills and thought processes. Computers

Some researchers argue that the amount of time we spend on the internet has disenabled us from being able to the “deep mental connections that form when we read deeply….” (Carr 575). Some other personal anecdotes suggest that technology has lessened our ability to focus. For example, Carr includes the story of Bruce Friedman who confesses that he has “almost completely lost the ability to read and absorb a longish article” whether on the web or in print (Carr 574). If such hypotheses are true, than removing, or at least limiting, technology in the classroom might be beneficial to cadets, so that there can be an environment where we can learn without a world of

From my point of view, this statement is wrong, and I am going to protect my opinion about this. Let’s think about the horrible facts about influence of us not using books: people have problems with health, eyes are damaged by screens and lights, useless pictures and videos on many web-pages take our attention and kill our time, social media completely makes us forget about the real world, and cyber bullying affects people’s

While there might be more downsides to the internet there are some people that want to believe that it is very beneficial to society. She explains how the intern et has given schools the ability to broaden their curriculum to a wider spectrum. Teachers in classrooms K-12 use the internet as a research or reference tool for their assignments and other coursework. She done a study that has shown that internet use can increase success in the classroom. Online classes and internet use in the classroom has been proven to broaden students’ ability to be more social and technically incline. Her studies have also shown that it gets the students more interested in school work by making it more fun for them. “Students who have more self-confidence with the internet have better success in online classes and have higher grades than others who feel uncomfortable with the internet” (119). While the internet isn’t always good it has helped kids think more outside the box (Ronsisvalle and Watkins

The author states how some people feel that the internet “stretches our minds” and “bring people together” however, some believe that it “destroys our ability to think, communicate, and interact with others” (167). By adding these opinions in, the author gives us a chance to evaluate our own methods of learning and whether or not we fit into the categories mentioned. The author then goes into detail about the pros and cons of technology in connection with the thought process. He includes

Before the Internet, students did work in books and teachers taught through books. Almost everyone in the same grade was taught the same, with a limited curriculum until technology took over the world. Now that society has endless resources from the advancements of technology, students, teachers, and others use it to expand their knowledge on certain subjects and also to complete their work faster. The effects of technology is explained in the text, “What’s the Matter with Kids Today?” by Amy Goldwasser, she argues that the Internet actually aids kids in developing skills in writing and problem solving. Steven Pinker also defends the use of technology in his essay, “Mind Over Mass Media” by claiming that people just need to control their use of technology.

Moral education is most successful when it is passive and indirect. Morals are a set of principles for right and wrong

Technology has forever been changing. Since as early as the late 1800’s to the early 1900’s technology changed people’s lives by helping with factory work and transportation. Technology helped by making work easier for people helping them accomplish different tasks at a go.