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"Newly awarded Nobel Prize winner, Doris Lessing, used her acceptance speech to tell the world that our relatively new-found best friend, the Internet, makes us dumb, as Duncan Riley of TechCrunch.com noted."(From:Internet Makes People Dumb, Methinks Says Nobel Laureate. By: Vlad Constandes, SEO News Editor)
Are search engines and the internet in general making youngsters less creative? Is it a 'creativity CRIME' to read sparknotes in bed rather than walk to your nearest library to check out the whole version?
Without a doubt the internet has made it much easier to skim books, check movie times, read periodicals, and even looking up historical figures all in one place: your laptop. This is extremely convenient and has and will continue to overcome some of the more traditional ways the public accesses information. But is this source of convenience also a potential source of making our younger generations dumber? I personally don't think so. Although it may make them lazier, the resources on the internet keep expanding and expanding, and the number of users on the internet keep expanding with it. With this growth I see the internet as solely a valuable source of information which hopefully will act as a partner to paper resources rather than an alternative.
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I agree completely. The internet is not making younger generations dumber, it is simply allowing more information to be available at the click of a mouse. While not all the information available is good information, the internet teaches children that they need to review sources and their validity before they an believe what they read. A few mistakes might need to be made before students can learn, but it will inevitably become a life lesson for all students.
The internet brings many distractions as well as some very helpful tools. The younger generations are having to learn how to filter information along with learning about the technology. If something goes wrong with your computer, you need to be able to know enough to attempt to fix minor issues. The computer is training our brains in a different way, but not necessarily in a bad way.
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