After preparing to participate by reading and/or viewing this weeks resources, respond to the discussion prompt below by creating a new thread in this weeks forum. Then respond to a thread posted by one of your peers. For more information on how your work will be evaluated, see the discussion board rubric in Course Information.
Read or view any two of the items (or sets of items) listed under required readings/videos. Then identify two of the specific concerns about how technology changes our brains or our interactions/relationships with others that are raised by the authors/speakers in the required readings or videos in this unit. (Be sure and tell us what the specific concerns are and where you came across them, since you will not all be reading or viewing the same materials.)
In a post that thoroughly addresses the prompt, answer the following question:
Do you agree with the assertions made, and where do you see these reflected or contradicted in your own experience?
required readings/videos
1. Sherry Turkle, Stop Googling, Lets Talk, (New York Times, 9/26/15) in this essay adapted from her 2015 book, Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age, Turkle explores the question of how our use of technologies like cell phones affects our interactions and relationships with people around us.
( https://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/27/opinion/sunday/stop-googling-lets-talk.html?smid=pl-share )
2. Two or more articles from the New York Times series Your Brain on Computers, from (6/6/10), which explored the idea that computers may be rewiring our brains:
a.) Matt Richtels Attached to Technology and Paying a Price,
https://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/07/technology/07brain.html?smid=pl-share
b.) Tara Parker-Popes An Ugly Toll of Technology: Impatience and Forgetfulness,
https://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/07/technology/07brainside.html
c.) Marjorie Connellys More Americans Sense a Downside to an Always Plugged-In Existence (reporting on a New York Times/CBS Poll on this topic).
https://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/07/technology/07brainpoll.html
3. At least six of the following short responses from The New York Times Room for Debate on First Steps to Digital Detox (6/7/10): https://archive.nytimes.com/roomfordebate.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/06/07/first-steps-to-digital-detox/?login=email&action=click&contentCollection=Technology&module=RelatedCoverage®ion=EndOfArticle&pgtype=article
Nicholas Carr, author of The Shallows and The Big Switch
Gary W. Small, psychiatry professor, U.C.L.A.
William Powers, author, Hamlets BlackBerry
Liza Daly, software engineer
Steven Yantis, professor of psychological and brain sciences
Russell A. Poldrack, professor of neurobiology
Timothy B. Lee, Princetons Center for Information Technology Policy
Clifford Nass, professor of cognitive science
Gloria Mark, professor of informatics.
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