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  • Essay / Is the Internet Making You Dumber By Nicholas Carr Summary

    Many schools now send children home with a laptop or tablet to use in class and at home. This helps teach students early on how to use technology to help them succeed in school and teaches them responsibility. This teaches children to learn effectively and understand how to find the information they need. As Megan Poore suggests in “Digital Literacy: Human Flourishing and Collective Intelligence in a Knowledge Society,” it’s not just about learning to process what we learn. It is also "about raising people's critical consciousness until they become aware of their own historicity, so that they can intervene and change the world – which is arguably the whole point of the 'education at the start' (2011, p..