PLN 3 (REDO)

"Is Google Making Us Stupid" by Nicholas Carr is a truly thought provoking article. It goes over how the effects of the speed at which humans are now accessing information through the internet is actually changing the way we think. Instead of having to ponder information until we find an answer, we can now access it in seconds through the internet therby making us not obtain the information. This matters to me because, personally, I want to be able to read a book when I get older and get something out of it. I don't want to mindlessly speed through the information like it is nothing. For me, it is like reading the summary of the book but not the actual book. When you read the summary, you don't gain as much information. When you read the book, the information you gain is considerably higher. If you read the answer on the computer screen, you won't get the same amount of information as you would if you were to actually read the 'why' part of the article. This matters to the world because we need to obtain information. You have to have the information to understand it. We have the information, we are just too lazy as world to delve deeper and actually understand what you are reading. How will the world think in a thousand years if the typewriter, a common machine not used for anything but typing, had a noticeable effect on someone? We are now dealing with a machine that gives us the already typed information! I wonder the differences we have from the people back then! This matters to education because we use the internet a lot in education. We type, blog, and learn of the internet. If students get the answer to a question, but don't actually understand it, we will become stupid. We will become a generation that learned the answers but not the explanations! The article made it clear the differences in our society today due to the internet. So is the internet making us stupid or the human tendency to be lazy?

PLN 7

Sorry Mrs. Smith, I had the same problem as Marco. Please go to the comment section and that is wher you will find my real PLN. Thanks. Sorry about the hassle.

PLN 6

I read "Arts and Living Spaces" by David Warlick. In this article, he firsts talks about the differences between the two terms creative and inventive. He said that creativity is taking what you are given and making something better, while inventiveness is the base or the original idea to start off with. In his words he says ,"Resourcefully solving a problem or accomplishing a goal." This all matters to me because I sometimes can relate to it when I make my art pieces. Because I am very interested and talented in art, it bugs me when people don't use their own ideas. Instead they make wealth out of the beauty of someone else's idea or art piece. This matters to the world because it truly makes us think that creativity is not all that bad in other areas beside art. For example, it started with ambition, rolled into a big chunky thing you talked through, went through thousands of modifications, and is now in my pocket and is known as a cell phone. If people did not build on the ideas of others, we would not be anywhere as a society or world right now. This matters to education because if we were not resourcefully solving problems or accomplishing goals, we would not be learning anything. To get the smarts, you have to learn from other people's mistakes. I think what David Warlik said is significant to all these matters and more.

PLN 3

"Footprints in the Digital Age"by Will Richardson is very relevant to today. Near the top of the article, it explained that many many kids are interested in interavtive websites. This is true because we as students like to not be spoken to but to speak. The article talked about how important it is for students to share their interests and to discuss topics. This is very important and significantly true. It talked about how students need to not only have their own space to learn, but to be able to obtain information from it. Things like this are the ones that are going to have and effect on us for the rest of our lives. If we are going to keep this information for ever, we might as well make it useful.

PLN 3

Is Google Making Us Stupid? Some may argue yes and others no. Scientific studies show a difference in the human brain from computers. Some results didn't even need deep scientific studies to show the results. For example,one man found that his friend's style of writing changed after the friend took on writing with the new typwriter. I believe that google is not what is making us stupid, it is the natural human tendency of taking short cuts. When one is typing, it takes them so much less time to get something on the page than when one is writing by hand. After we got used to getting work done fast, we started losing our vocabulary and other things just so we could get our job done faster. The article very deeply discusses this. I disagger with that notation. I believe we are making us stupid, not the internet.