The Internet has made students lazy

[PainterGuy]

Hi,

I remember some years ago I read a very informative news article online where a professor from some USA university was complaining about the doctorate students that how their research is so shallow these days. He was trying to relate it to the effects of internet. He was trying to point out how the internet has made the students lazy and less of a deep thinkers. Could you help me locate that article or anything related? I did Google but couldn't find anything. Thanks a lot.

 

[jedishrfu]

An article from 2001 may be what you're looking for:

https://www.zdnet.com/article/inter...arily been,putting knowledge into kid's heads.

 

[jedishrfu]

Some other articles:

https://www.alphr.com/science/1002312/does-the-internet-make-our-brains-lazy

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/edu...rt-students-learning-research-shows-1.3385864

and a few on multi-tasking:

https://www.facultyfocus.com/articl...ment/can-anything-done-students-multitasking/

https://slate.com/technology/2013/0...gical-gadgets-impair-learning-and-memory.html

 

[PainterGuy]

These are some good articles and I really appreciate your help. But none of these is close to the one I was referring to in my first post. Thanks

 

[pinball1970]

These are some good articles and I really appreciate your help. But none of these is close to the one I was referring to in my first post. Thanks

This one is British

https://jameshaytonphd.com/quick-tips/are-phd-students-lazy

 

[Vanadium 50]

Is this the article?
Nope.
What about this one?
Not that one either.
How about this?
Nope.

Do you have anything else for people to go on?

 

[robphy]

Maybe it's reference to
Nicholas Carr, who write "Is Google Making Us Stupid?" (Atlantic magazine) and
"The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains" (book).
https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=127370598
https://elearnmag.acm.org/archive.cfm?aid=2635804 [one review]

Carr is mentioned in https://www.alphr.com/science/1002312/does-the-internet-make-our-brains-lazy (a link posted by @jedishrfu ).

(Carr is listed as a Richmond Visiting Professor at https://faculty.williams.edu/2018-19-new-faculty/ )I haven't read the references above.(Waiting for my "Nope." )

 

[jedishrfu]

Here's an audio talk by the late Prof Clifford Nass on the Myth of Multitasking:



His comments were related to student papers and how student writing has degraded into disorganized thoughts, disconnected sentences... all because the student multi-tasked their way through the paper being interrupted repeatedly by texts and phone messages and other distractions.

 

[mcastillo356]

I've been searching google in spanish. No clue. Maybe Mozilla?. Haven't investigated that path

 

[jedishrfu]

Mozilla's a browser maybe try ecosia, bing or duckduckgo for searches.

 

[Vanadium 50]

Apart from the specific question, I am amused that it's the internet that makes students lazy. Pre-internet, there was no laziness.

("It's these doggone scrolls that make students lazy. Why, when I was a boy we had to use stone tablets!")

 

[TeethWhitener]

Is this the article?
Nope.
What about this one?
Not that one either.
How about this?
Nope.

Do you have anything else for people to go on?

It’s almost as if the internet has made OP lazy...

 

[jedishrfu]

In my day, it was everything related to work that made me lazy.

 

[PainterGuy]

Thank you, everyone.

Some of the mentioned sources are really informative. I was giving it a try to find the article which I read once but the provided sources and articles seem equally good. Anyway, thanks.

 

[melissaa]

Unfortunately, that's true. The Internet can be helpful if you use it properly.

 

[gleem]

Perhaps it is not so much the internet per se but websites like PF that really make students lazy. How many times have we had questions asked about a subject that we may have been very fuzzy on and have gone to the internet to easily find an answer to an OP question. Some people don't even try when they think someone has the answer.

 

[hutchphd]

 

[jedishrfu]

Perhaps it is not so much the internet per se but websites like PF that really make students lazy. How many times have we had questions asked about a subject that we may have been very fuzzy on and have gone to the internet to easily find an answer to an OP question. Some people don't even try when they think someone has the answer.

Thats a really good insight. For me though, doing the search and reviewing what I found improved my learning in some areas where I was weak but I guess that’s often why teachers teach For the joy of learning a topic more deeply.