Carr's Access To Technology: Article Analysis

Have you ever wondered, how the world would be if we didn't have access to technology?. I pads, Tablets google and E-readers are becoming more popular, but various research conducted suggests that the constant use of these technologies affects our ability to read. The continuous use of technology has a negative impact on our brains, memory, thoughts, how we read, learn and process information, concentrate and how the brain interprets written languages.

In Jabr article, he talks about the use of technologies such as Ipads, Ebooks, tablets and kindle may drain more of our mental resources while reading, It makes it harder to remember what we have read. One of my sources, In a study by Anne Mangen, some students were asked to read a comprehension on paper and the other half were asked to read the same comprehension on the computer. In addition, students who read the comprehension on paper performed better in memorization than students who read the comprehension on the computer. This display that you're more likely to scan or skim through information when using technology to read, rather than fully immerse yourself in important details and also reading to understand. When using technology to read, you rely on remembering than knowing. When using technology while reading, you spend a lot of

time searching your mind for small information from the text which is often information that you already know the answers. One of my sources, Another study by Joan Ganz shows that three to six years old children did not remember stories read on e-books. Reading on E-books or any other reading devices prevent people from flipping to a previous chapter when a sentence brings to light a memory of something they read earlier or quickly scanning ahead.

In Carr article, he talks about the constant use of technologies makes it difficult to concentrate when reading. People that use technology constantly struggle with deep readings because their focus often drifts after two or three pages. This displays that as we use technology regularly, you take away the capacity for concentration. In addition, your mind expects you to take and process information the same way it does with technology. The more you use technology, the more you have to stay focused when reading. Therefore, this illustrates that as we use technology constantly we get used to it and our brain is processed that way. One of my sources, according to Bruce Friedman, he described how the continuous use of technology has altered his mental habits. Friedman further explains that he has almost lost the ability to read and absorb a long article due to the constant use of technology. The constant use of technology makes you lose the ability read long books or articles because our brain finds it too much to absorb. This could lead to you skimming and lack of remembering what you've read. One of the sources, a study conducted by scholars from University college London found that people who use technology constantly exhibited a form of skimming. However, this involved hopping from one page to another and rarely returning to any previous page they’d already visited. This displays that when people read online, they read quickly instead of taking their time to make sure they understand what they read.

In Jabr article “Why the Brain Prefers Paper” and carr’s article “ Is google making us stupid” both participates in the same conversation because they talk about how the constant use of technology affects the way you learn, how much you remember, the way your brain process information, and your concentration in the way read.

Both Jabr and Carr uses ethos in their articles this helps in making their claim/ argument convincing. Both articles are important to each other because they focus on how technology affects on daily activities. The reason there haven't been a solution is due to the vast production of different reading technologies and the generational

transition.

Jabr supports his argument by claiming magazines are now useless and impossible to understand for people who have been exposed to the use of different technologies such as Ipads, smartphones, kindles and tablets from a very early age. Carr supports his argument by providing statistics and facts about how the world was before production of various technologies and the effects of the rapid use of technologies.

In conclusion, the process of adapting to new intellectual technologies is reflected in the changing metaphors we use to explain ourselves to ourselves. Carr supports his claim by providing an example “ When the mechanical clock arrived, people began thinking of their brains as operating like clockwork”. This illustrates that the constant use of technology can affect the way our brain process information.