I have heard many people complain that technology is dumbing down our society. Calculators make us bad at math, microwave ovens make us bad cooks, digital clocks make us forget how to use sundials… you get the gist. The question remains: does the very technology that we have become dependent on to live our daily lives enable us to have more free time to expand our knowledge of the world around us, or is it causing us to become slaves who are incapable of providing for ourselves? Or even worse, is technology allowing us to easily arrive at answers and conclusions by spoon-feeding us answers to questions that we haven’t even thought to ask yet, let alone do the critical thinking required to reach conclusions that make sense to us?
Are we becoming meme spewing robots who no longer need to think about the things we know or believe to be true?
The folks at DMLcentral have asked some of these questions, and share some interesting insight as to the effect that technology has on our children and how they are learning in this digital age.