“When we are googling, we have saved our time in finishing our paper, essay or even research since Google helps us a lot. However, did Google’s help spoil us?
This first question is not about a technical or policy issue on the Internet or even how people use the Internet, but an unsupported risk to human intelligence and methods of inquiry. Usually, questions about how technologies affect our learning or practice really concern our values and how we choose technologies, not the technology itself. And that's the basis on which I address such questions. I am not saying technology is neutral, but that it is created, adopted, and developed over time in a dialog with people's desires.
I respect the questions posed by Nicholas Carr in his Atlantic article although it's hard to take such worries seriously when he suggests that even the typewriter could impoverish writing and would like to relieve his concerns. The question is all about people's choices. If we value introspection as a road to insight, if we believe that long experience with issues contributes to good judgment on those issues, if we (in short) want knowledge that search engines don't give us, we'll maintain our depth of thinking and Google will only enhance it.
What search engines do is provide more information, which we can use either to become amateurs (Carr's worry) or to boost our knowledge around the edges and do fact-checking while we rely mostly on information we've gained in more vigorous ways for our core analyses. Google frees the time we used to spend pulling together the last 10% of facts we need to complete our research. I read Carr's article when The Atlantic first published it, but I used a Google search to pull it back up and review it before writing this response. That’s why, Google is my friend J
wether or not google stupidifies us is depand on the user itself, because actually it provides so (even sometime "too") musch informations that must make us cleaverer.
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I am agree with ur statement that google is not stupidify us.. but I also agree that google make us lazier, because all informations are provided in internet and students sometimes only copy and paste it without considering the issue of plagiarism.. in my experience, if I search something in google, I always confuse because there are so many informations appear, and most of it is not relates with what I search,, so how can I get the information effectively in google?
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Yeah, that's why we're the friend's of google, right? but the issue in here is some people especially Nick Carr believe that the power of Google that providing all that fascinating information make us having a shallow thinking.. what do you think ndang?
ReplyDeleteto make an effective searching in goggle you may use some "secret" keyword.. "the things that you want to find filetype:the type of the file that ypu preferred" for example,
ReplyDeletewhen you want to find some file about technology in primary education and you want to find in pdf format you can type the keyword like this "technology in primary education filetype:pdf"
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ReplyDeleteyaa , I almost agree with you nais , but mbah google also can help us to search a lot of information for our knowledge, isn't it ? there are so many informations we can get ..
and you also use mbah google in your blog (translate your blog in other language)hehe ..
so I think the important one is, how we use this facilitation kindly and efficiency but we also have to consider in our ability to increase thinking skill :)
what do you think ?
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ReplyDeletedear beby, did you read the whole post? because actually i disagree if google stupidifies us.. in the last sentence i said "Google is my friend :)"
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