Lug, Apologies for cross posting
Nicholas Carr <http://www.roughtype.com/>, published a post "is Google making us stupid", http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2008/07/is-google-making-us-stupid/6868/ He has been featured on edutechdebate.org, for a guest column this month, and rest assured, someone came to my rescue and thrashed his work, quoting a conversation between Socrates the great philosopher, and Phaedrus, Socrates states "And in this instance, you who are the father of letters, from a paternal love of your own children have been led to attribute to them a quality which they cannot have; for this discovery of yours will create forgetfulness in the learners' souls, because they will not use their memories; they will trust to the external written characters and not remember of themselves. The specific which you have discovered is an aid not to memory, but to reminiscence, and you give your disciples not truth, but only the semblance of truth; they will be hearers of many things and will have learned nothing; they will appear to be omniscient and will generally know nothing; they will be tiresome company, having the show of wisdom without the reality." to follow the complete thread http://edutechdebate.org/literacies-old-and-new/google-stupid-attention-thoughtfulness-literacy-networked-age/#idc-container regards Cavin ______________________ (R.I.P. Binaisa)
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