It's Friday afternoon and during a free period, I am looking at news online and came across a follow-up article to Nicholas Carr's Atlantic Monthly piece of a few years ago titled, "Is Google Making Us Stupid?".
Carr has expanded his argument into a forthcoming (June 7, 2010) book, The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to our Brains. I particularly love this blurb from the publishers: "Nicholas Carr has written an important and timely book. See if you can stay off the web long enough to read it! (Elizabeth Kolbert)" I am going to try and am adding Carr's new title to my Summer Reading List -- watch the New Trier Library page for other Summer Reading ideas.
In the meantime, here is a recent Salon.com review of The Shallows. Read the review, think about concentrating and focus -- the author, Laura Miller, does a great job of illustrating her point.
I recently was referred to this David Brooks article form 2 rather disparate sources:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/09/opinion/09brooks.html?_r=4&src=me&ref=homepage
Books vs the internet is one take; it references Nicholas Carr and should also give us pause to think about thinking and learning....