What Are The Arguments Against Bilingual Education

Carr sees this change as dangerous; he has lost his ability to immerse himself in his reading. Fortunately for Carr, he is a “Digital Immigrant.” Unlike the youth of this generation, referred to as “Digital Natives,” the Internet has merely stunted his practice of deep reading, whereas the Digital Natives never learned

Despite, the changing, deploring effects alternating and hinder our cognitive reading habits, Carr suggest technology has proven our society reads more today than in past history (Carr 317). Of course in past history, television was a medium, however, their cognitive ability to read on deep levels appeared not to be altered. In addition, the internet is the largest, continuously streaming pool of knowledge ever built in the world which adequately supplies you with the ability to seek, research and surf more information than one brain can process. Inadvertently, causes reverse comprehensive engagement thus, leaving concentration of long pieces of writing the thing of the past (Carr 315). In agreement with Carr, Maryanne Wolf, a developmental psychologist with Tufts University, narrative of Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain also, suggests we are “mere decoders of information and our ability to interpret text … form mental connections from deeply reading is disengaged” (Carr 317).

He discusses people are not doing traditional reading anymore. “A form of skimming activity, hopping from one source to another and rarely returning to any source they’d already visited.” People only read the contents pages and abstracts online and they jump one page to another. Some of them may save an article, but they never go back to read it again. Due to the internet, people start to change their reading habits and they only want efficiency, I think it will make us lose the chance to gain new knowledge.

I have become very dependent on the internet. I have used the internet ever since sixth grade, and till this day, use the internet every single day. When Carr gave evidence from studies performed in the University College London about how people “… read no more than one or two pages of an article or a book before they would bounce to another site” (93), I find myself doing the same and only skim through articles and passages. Due to the fact that I depend on the internet, I also find myself difficult to focus and ‘deep read’ a book. I tend to skim through the pages or read the same page over and over again until I remember what I just read.

“In-Forming”, an app described as an individual 's ability to provide themselves with their own personal supply chain of information, knowledge, and entertainment, has impacted Danville by decreasing the amount of effort students have to put into their work and assignments, and by giving every person in Danville access to others in and out of the small town. Students of the Danville Area School District used to have to lug around large textbooks for every class, go to the library to find information for assignments, and write with actual writing utensils, but now, because of the world wide web, old standards required for learning have “left the building.” With a simple search for a textbook title on “Google,” students are able to access large

The internet has been very beneficial but has taken some incredibly crucial skills. For instance a friend of Carr’s was a lit major and he inctilby found himself in the same problems as Carr the friend saw that “the more they used the web, the more they fight to stay focused on a piece of text”(5). A person who used to be a “Various Reader” lost the ability to read, it's just crazy to see how much the internet can affect you. I mean for god sakes if person who dedicated his life to literature lost the ability to read something then you can truly see how the internet has affected us. Sadly I must admit i have the same problems as Carr's friend and Carr i too have the lost the ability to read and even though i am no lit major i spent years learning not only to read but to read at a high level and now i have lost that.

For Professor Gerald Graff and Cathy Birkenstein, online communication is not as devastating as some critics argue that it reduces people 's ability to read, write, and think in a clear, logical and critical way. They point out considerable problems like reductive abbreviations substitute for complete words and sentences in writing and the fast speed message exchange reduce the time for thinking. On the contrary, Graff and Birkenstein argue that the Internet is only another field that can expose some weak and unsophisticated writers (171). The technology itself has nothing to be blamed, but it is essential for people to step back and discuss how to develop new ability to face the challenge of the new technology. After all, technology improvement

How does the Internet affect your attention span? Nicholas Carr argues that the Web is detrimental to your ability to focus on literature. He focuses on his personal experiences and what other scholars say about this phenomenon. I believe that having the Web at your disposal makes it easier to focus, considering you can clear up anything you come to be stuck on while reading. With the Internet comes the ability to read something that may be out of a person’s education level since they can search any terminology that is more in depth.

Because, nowadays, e-readers are developed enough, her article could play an important role in making e-readers a significant tool for education. Moreover, the author is motivated to write the article as the number of the articles which discuss the impact of e-reader on reading practice of children is low. In addition to choosing the right time, Larson shows credibility in her article because of her experience as an instructor in the field of learning technologies. Furthermore, the case study, which is done by the author, makes the information believable. Also, the author is fair and respectful by not attacking people who read printed books to show the pros of e-reader.

Rodriguez’ is able to immerse audience in his childhood experiences through vignettes, allowing them to relate to the author as well as develop an understanding as to why he does not support bilingual education. Though Rodriguez uses an extensive amount of vignettes, he also develops his claim through the periodic structure of his essay. The events of his childhood are not retold in the way they ordinarily would be, which is the linear order in which they occurred. Rather, Rodriguez chooses to introduce specific memories in a way that gradually leads up to his final argument.

Results from this study showed that such people would hop from one article to another without reading it in deep to understand the concept. Despite the current ubiquity of text messaging, either through mobile phones or e-mails, which has made researchers get into a conclusion that presently people do read more than in the last Centuries, the intent of reading is different. Carr uses such instances to show the reader that by changing the style of reading from print to internet sources, the mode of thinking changes completely. “The web promotes immediacy in preference to interpretative reading, and this kills our cognitive capacity” (Carr2). According to Reading is an instinctive skill that depends on our interpretation abilities and, therefore, our cognitive circuitry that develops from the internet is entirely different from that of printed works.

As explained by Jordan Grafman, "The constant shifting of our attention when we're online may make our brains more nimble when it comes to multitasking , but improving our ability to multitask actually hampers our ability to think deeply and creatively" (Carr 140). When people use the internet they are not taking time to think about what they are doing. They are just acting. This leads to people just doing and not thinking. That mentality becomes a problem when it comes to attempting to deep read.

n Nicholas Carr’s book “The Shallows”, he argues that technology is making human beings unintelligent. Through the book, there is an analysis on how the usage of the internet is sacrificing people's ability to read, write, and think. Within the first few chapters including the prologue of “The Shallows”, he’s verifying his dispute that technology is making people idiotic. With the use of the medium “media”, the usage of it changes us, through the exposure of new content.

People are getting used to reading online and now expect to have everything introduced as a short analysis. In the excerpt essay, according to Nicholas Carr, using the internet for reading and researching may affect

According to this statement the readers can conclude that the main reason for reading concentration disturbance is the internet. In terms of the scientific research, the article provides the research by the British Library and U.K educational consortium which states “They found that people using the sites exhibited ‘a form of skimming activity,’ hopping from one source to another rarely returning to any source they’d already visitied” (Carr, 2008). From this statement we can understand that there are numbers of attractive information piled on one page, people have a hard time choosing which one to read, resulting them to skim and jump to one another. From these couple examples, it can be concluded that the author of this essay is strongly attempting to convince the readers in his idea of internet disturbing people’s concentration. However, the essay itself is extremely biased, because of the fact that there is no information about benefits of using the internet and reading online.