Will the Net Replace Thinking?
It is 2 A.M. and Daniel Davis, a first-year University of Maryland student, has not even started his English paper on biological warfare, due that day.
No problem. He'll just do what he has done before a dozen times or more. He sits down at his computer in his dorm room, sign on the Yahoo's search engine, and begins his quest. Six hours and several bags of chips later, the paper pops out of his printer, complete.
He doesn't consider visiting the campus library or opening a book. "You can fine whole pages of stuff you need to know on the Web, fast," he says.
So Davis is a procrastinator. So what? Professors are used to that. But six hours? That's a whole new kind of extreme.
Welcome to the world of Net thinking, a form of reasoning that characterizes many students who are growing up with the Internet as their primary, and in some cases, sole source of research. Ask teachers and they'll tell you:Among all the influences that the influences that shape young thinking skills technology is the biggest one.
"Students' first recourse for any kind of information is the Web. It's absolutely automatic," says Kenneth Kotovsky, a psychology professor at Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh who has examined the study habits of young people.
Good? Bad? Who knows? The first popular Internet browser, Netscape, came out only about a decade ago. Wath we do know after millennia of straining minds in scholarly disci.
Will the Net Replace Thinking?It is 2 A.M. and Daniel Davis, a first-year University of Maryland student, has not even started his English paper on biological warfare, due that day. No problem. He'll just do what he has done before a dozen times or more. He sits down at his computer in his dorm room, sign on the Yahoo's search engine, and begins his quest. Six hours and several bags of chips later, the paper pops out of his printer, complete. He doesn't consider visiting the campus library or opening a book. "You can fine whole pages of stuff you need to know on the Web, fast," he says. So Davis is a procrastinator. So what? Professors are used to that. But six hours? That's a whole new kind of extreme. Welcome to the world of Net thinking, a form of reasoning that characterizes many students who are growing up with the Internet as their primary, and in some cases, sole source of research. Ask teachers and they'll tell you:Among all the influences that the influences that shape young thinking skills technology is the biggest one. "Students' first recourse for any kind of information is the Web. It's absolutely automatic," says Kenneth Kotovsky, a psychology professor at Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh who has examined the study habits of young people. Good? Bad? Who knows? The first popular Internet browser, Netscape, came out only about a decade ago. Wath we do know after millennia of straining minds in scholarly disci.
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