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Was it some old professor of Latin, or English? Was it a retro author who still uses a typewriter? Some curmudgeon in the Philosophy department? NONE OF THE ABOVE. IN FACT, IT WASN’T EVEN RECENT.
Why am I bringing this up? Simple … because whenever new technologies are introduced there are critics who claim that they are bad for learning and education … especially teachers. The question I am asking is: what does Google do to our concept of intelligence? Note: using Google as an archetype here … the Idea of Google … which is good search & retrieval … not actual Google.
B4 we can answer … what is intelligence? Definition has changed over time …
Don’t know that we’ll answer this … But …
In late 2008, Nicholas Carr wrote “Is Google Making us Stupid?” for the Atlantic Monthly, and it instantly became the most-discussed magazine article of the year. Title is google; actually about web in general
Thamus, anyone?
Thamus, anyone?
First, students in some cases are seeking quick answers that others have created – received wisdom, so to speak. And second, he’s saying that they’ve also even lost the ability to personally seek for answers. That’s a serious challenge to an education system. If students don’t want to figure out the answer and also won’t strain themselves to find it personally, teaching anything beyond search and retrieval skills starts to sound like a significantly difficult uphill battle.
Google does, in most cases, because you are learning knowledge divorced from it’s actual application. McLuhan, of course told us that media privilege certain kinds of discourse … and knowledge …
Media, information consumption and synthesis and creation skills …
Even with multiliteracies, the google danger is “getting the answer” We still need to store some facts and processes in our brains