{"id":65,"date":"2009-02-13T04:25:31","date_gmt":"2009-02-13T12:25:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elearning4bradford.edublogs.org\/?p=65"},"modified":"2009-02-13T04:25:31","modified_gmt":"2009-02-13T12:25:31","slug":"is-google-making-us-stupid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandbox2.learnerinformatics.com\/?p=65","title":{"rendered":"Is Google making us stupid?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Author Nicholas Carr asks an important question; Is Google making us Stupid – important for the academic and for the learner – more and more people are googling and as well as the obvious information literacy implications Carr suggests there may be a more fundamental impact he writes “Thanks to the ubiquity of text on the Internet, not to mention the popularity of text-messaging on cell phones, we may well be reading more today than we did in the 1970s or 1980s, when television was our medium of choice. But it\u2019s a different kind of reading, and behind it lies a different kind of thinking\u2014perhaps even a new sense of the self.”<\/em> See his full article first published in The Atlantic July\/August 2008, here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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