There is continued speculation that the internet is making us become less intellectual and more dependent after each generation. Some ideas that make me a believer of this topic include; search engine stupidity and multitasking.
Ever since the creation of google, people have been using the internet platform as a source to look up information and ask questions of the unknown. Many students listen to a lecture or speech and If they are unclear with words, instead of asking, they look them up on google. Author, Nicholas Carr, makes a good delivers a good point in his article, “Google is making is stupid,” when he states that the internet has become our primary source of information, and is effecting our way to learn and interact in everyday activities. Students today are not processing what they learn as much as they used to, because they are becoming too reliant on looking up the answer other than learning it.
Clay Shirky makes a strong point when he states that technology in the classroom is a bad thing, I believe so as well. If us as students always were on our phone and multitasking, then we would never fully process all of the information into the brain because we are occupied by other social aspects. While in class, being on your phone would be considered a distraction, not multitasking. I know that on my part, I am not a very good multitasker, I would have to be told something twice or maybe three times until I can really understand. This would just make the classrooms misdirected and kids would not get the full education that they deserve.
In the article, “does the internet make you smarter?”, it talks about how the advancement of technology is going to make children less intelligent. As the generations pass, the more people will be reliant on technological devices and google. Soon, to process information, everyone will need to look towards google first before learning the information first.