OVERWHELMING AMOUNT OF INFORMATION
bill norton's List: Disinformation-Debate
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Researchers say that technology requires students to think more critically when faced with an overwhelming amount of information available on the Internet
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Many of us often type "facebok" into Google and rather than correcting the obvious mistake, let the search engine fix it. Monitoring Canadians' search habits would reveal that many, many more consistently type in "faceboo," "faebook" and "fcaebook" — but they know Google will get the point.
Others can't be bothered to tap out even eight characters and have learned that entering just "face" or "fb" will get them exactly the link they're seeking.
Is that lazy or efficient? Should we be thanking Google's engineers for saving us a few seconds or lament that technology is dooming us to intellectual laziness?
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It seems hardly anyone can remember phone numbers anymore since we starting storing them in our mobile phones.
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making us lazy. dont have to remember as much as before. too dependent on tech.
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"Our culture has been moving toward prizing efficiency over taking time to do things," Kleinfeld says, "and we've been moving in that direction for decades."
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He typically favors Facebook, YouTube and making digital videos. That is the case this August afternoon. Bypassing Vonnegut, he clicks over to YouTube, meaning that tomorrow he will enter his senior year of high school hoping to see an improvement in his grades, but without having completed his only summer homework.
On YouTube, “you can get a whole story in six minutes,” he explains. “A book takes so long. I prefer the immediate gratification.”
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too much a distraction. choosing immediate gratification over studying for long term gratification.
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Mar 13, 13
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After that question was posted on Facebook, Deseret News readers responded that with the advent of modern technologies their handwriting has suffered, their ability to spell without a checker has decreased, their friends and family can't hold a conversation without distraction, they rely almost exclusively on mapping software to find addresses and at times have had a sense of panic when they can't access their cellphone contacts.
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distracted, feeling of missing something without their cell phones, too dependent upon technology for day to day activities. handwriting no longer something prized.
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Taking himself to be the guinea pig, Carr said that over the last few years the way he read and absorbed books was completely changing. He said, “I was losing my own capacity for concentration and contemplation. Even when I was away from my computer, my mind seemed hungry for constant stimulation, for quick hits of information. I felt perpetually distracted.”
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imformation addiction, immediate gratification. distracted
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People who are continually distracted by emails, updates and other messages understand less than those who are able to concentrate on one thing.
People who juggle tasks are often less creative and productive than those who do one thing at a time.
As the number of links in an online document goes up, reading comprehension falls.
As more types of information are placed on a screen, we remember less of what we see.
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But newly released results of scientific studies in multitasking indicate that carrying on several duties at once may, in fact, reduce productivity, not increase it.
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In Brief
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When people do two things at once, are they being more efficient or wasting time? A study in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance (Vol. 27, No. 4) indicates that multitasking may actually be less efficient--especially for complicated or unfamiliar tasks--because it takes extra time to shift mental gears every time a person switches between the two tasks.
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