According to Esther Dyson’s essay (Source C), states the potential truth of students and technological advances, such as the internet, combining. Dyson begins with, “We’re living longer and thinking shorter”, in other words Dyson is saying that we do have longer lifespans, we are starting at younger ages to stop depending on our own minds as much when it comes to thinking and problem solving. Instead, we depend on the internet, and technology making everything faster is not necessarily a good thing. Dyson calls it a “mental diabetes”, students no longer have to use their imagination for play time, they are instead exposed to an overwhelming amount of information which is a way to disable a student’s imagination versus stimulating and exercising it. Students no longer have to process information on their own and develop problem solving skills, instead they can solely depend on the answers technology gives us without thinking twice. Using Dyson’s analogy of mental diabetes, schools should consider how their student’s imagination can be stifled by not having to think for themselves and depending on a machine to give them answers within seconds. A break from technology at school to be “bored” and stimulate their imagination would be beneficial to generate new ideas for
According to Esther Dyson’s essay (Source C), states the potential truth of students and technological advances, such as the internet, combining. Dyson begins with, “We’re living longer and thinking shorter”, in other words Dyson is saying that we do have longer lifespans, we are starting at younger ages to stop depending on our own minds as much when it comes to thinking and problem solving. Instead, we depend on the internet, and technology making everything faster is not necessarily a good thing. Dyson calls it a “mental diabetes”, students no longer have to use their imagination for play time, they are instead exposed to an overwhelming amount of information which is a way to disable a student’s imagination versus stimulating and exercising it. Students no longer have to process information on their own and develop problem solving skills, instead they can solely depend on the answers technology gives us without thinking twice. Using Dyson’s analogy of mental diabetes, schools should consider how their student’s imagination can be stifled by not having to think for themselves and depending on a machine to give them answers within seconds. A break from technology at school to be “bored” and stimulate their imagination would be beneficial to generate new ideas for