Ironically that this intelligent debate started on the Internet.
Information on the Internet is beyond what traditional means used to
offer. Traditional reading methods is inadequate for the amount of
information that needs to be assimilated. Instead of complaining that
we don't read like we used
As if we thought this little horse had been adequately flogged, the NY
Times this morning has an article titled, "Literacy Debate: Online, R
U Really Reading?" http://tinyurl.com/66wp8t
"As teenagers%u2019 scores on standardized reading tests have
declined or stagnated, some argue that the hours
I should probably point out that I read this article in the print magazine.
I was in an airport and I had to choose something quickly. It was either *The
Atlantic* or *Monster Trucks.
*
I found the article interesting and relevant to our industry, which is why I
thought I'd share it.
-G
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Benjamin Ho wrote:
> Instead of the catchy title naming Google, the author should have
> called it, "Is the Internet making us stupid?"
If we are how we read, what is the internet doing to our brains? Along these
lines and extending the conversation, I came across a couple of interesting
blogs
Benjamin Ho wrote:
Instead of the catchy title naming Google, the author should have
called it, "Is the Internet making us stupid?"
I've been taking some classes at CMU with people half my age. It's
amazing how few of them are familiar with the research tools I grew up
on, say, the Readers
"two cents", not "two thoughts"... perhaps Google is impacting my
ability to type? :-)
Jeff Parks wrote:
My two thoughts on the article...
http://www.iaconsultants.ca/index.php/2008/07/07/is-google-making-us-stoopid/
Cheers!
Jeff
Oleh Kovalchuke wrote:
On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 12:24 PM, Be
My two thoughts on the article...
http://www.iaconsultants.ca/index.php/2008/07/07/is-google-making-us-stoopid/
Cheers!
Jeff
Oleh Kovalchuke wrote:
On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 12:24 PM, Benjamin Ho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I think the human mind is faster than the Internet. Humans created
Oleh,
Think of it this way - it's the human doing the searching, not the
Internet. ;)
Search results are only as good as what's pertinent to the human.
The Internet can give you poor results, especially if the algorithm
isn't correct. It's the human mind that becomes adaptive and
thinks faster
On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 12:24 PM, Benjamin Ho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I think the human mind is faster than the Internet. Humans created
> it - not the other way around.
This reasoning contradicts both theory (systems), and facts (you do use
Google to find that site you saw a few weeks ag
I just read the article - albeit all online, I did have to
concentrate. ;) It's actually pretty well done and not that wordy -
reading something from Bucky Fuller is more wordy.
Instead of the catchy title naming Google, the author should have
called it, "Is the Internet making us stupid?"
I fin
Maybe the author and her friends are just getting old and senile.
;-)
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> I'll agree that this article is way too long. It easily could have
> been edited to one quarter of the length without losing any actual
> content. I'm guessing that was on purpose!
Short articles typically aim at PROVIDING INFORMATION; long articles
often try to MAKE THE READER THINK. Atlantic i
Regardless of the article's inappropriate title, the author seems to
be missing the nature of how most people read on the internet. IMO,
skimming the internet is much more akin to reading a newspaper than
reading a novel, or an article in a journal - we scan the headlines
looking for something that
LOL! I thought it was on purpose, to reinforce the point of the article!
Chris
On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 2:47 PM, Gloria Petron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> LOL - sorry about that. :-)
>
> Welcome to the Interaction Design Associatio
The factual intelligence benefits from briefness -- most ideas can be
expressed in few sentences (see Strunk, for example).
The emotional intelligence (as well as closely related BS) is not going to
be influenced by the efficiency of Google.
Incidentally, I found the article too wordy for the ide
LOL - sorry about that. :-)
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There's something humorous hidden here. Either in the fact that there was
no link attached, or in how easy it was to google the referenced article.
http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200807/google
On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 11:19 AM, Gloria Petron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Interesting food for thou
Interesting food for thought.
Best,
Gloria
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