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=Is Google Making Us Stupid? An opinion=

====“Someone or something has been tinkering with my brain.” This statement, presented by Nicholas Carr in the opening paragraphs of his article //Is Google Making Us Stupid?//, brings to mind the image of a clock smith sitting over a clock moving gears and springs. I think that this statement is misleading. It makes the reader think that the information presented to us is changing the way we think. What I think is really going on is that //we// are changing the way that we think to adapt to the way that information is being presented now. Just as early man had to adjust his way of thinking to adapt to the new way that information was being presented to him (as written language).==== ====I don’t think that Google is making us stupid, I think that Google is making us more accurate. Before the days of internet and Google if we were not sure about something we would guess or have to look it up, but most likely guess because looking something up takes time and you can’t exactly stop in the middle of a lesson to fact check. Now if I’m teaching and a student asks a question and I’m not exactly sure of the answer, I look it up and can give them an exact answer immediately. Outside of the education field, the instant information is also very important. I was talking recently to a nurse. She was complaining that a coworker believed that using technology and search engines makes you a bad nurse because you don’t know the information off the top of your head. The argument to this line of thinking was that there are so many changes to the medical field from medications and treatments that there is no way that one person can know it all. By using search engines and other technologies a nurse can keep up with all the latest information in the field.====