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حمورابی by Judith Levin6/8/2023 These students surf therefore, they do not read. And I can't help but trace its etiology, at least in part, to the promiscuous pointing and clicking that has come to stand in for intellectual inquiry. When I try to help them corral their impressions into coherent stories, I keep hearing the same complaint: "I can't concentrate." I've diagnosed this phenomenon as epidemic attention deficit disorder. Their writing often "clicks" from info-bit to info-bit, their arguments free of that gluey, old-fashioned encumbrance - the transitional sentence. Scant on world knowledge and critical thinking skills, they are ill-equipped to interpret or judge the so-called facts, which they insert into their papers confidently but in no discernible order. Most of the data my students Net is like trash fish - and it is hard for them to tell a dead one-legged crab from a healthy sea bass. New York university - have access to the endless informationīubbling through cyberspace, and it is not empowering. Students - undergraduate media and communications majors at a Well, I have seen the impact, and I disagree. "But I would invite them to visit some of these libraries and see the impact on kids using this technology." "People are entitled to disagree," Gates said. "Obviously, I'm somebody who believes that personal computersĪre empowering tools," Bill Gates said after he bestowed a $200 million dollar gift to America's public libraries so they could hook up to the Internet.
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