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Is the Internet Changing Our Brains?

I believe that the internet is indeed changing our brains. We are constantly on our phones texting, emailing, or playing on the internet. Parents now hand children their phones or tablets to keep them busy and distracted. But it is making us think differently and rely heavily on technology. With technology and access to so much information, we don't have to use our brains to think as hard. It is so easy to look something up on Google or to find information immediately, and a consequence is that it makes us impatient and almost lazy. We don't use our brains for math anymore, we all have calculators on our phones and thus there is no need. We don't read books as frequently, we read on our phones and often what we read does not have much substance. We are so reliant on technology for answers and help.

What are children going to do when the lights go out or when there is no service? They won't know what to do with themselves because they are always on their phones and computers.

Copyright

I know that things that are copyrighted cannot be used unless permission is given. I have never really looked into how this could affect me though. This did come up last week when a Facebook friend posted that Facebook had removed his opal video because of copyright issues. It definitely made me realize that I need to look into it to see how it may affect my jewelry business and posting my own videos and photos.

Learning more about copy right, I had the gist of what it means. But now that I know more information, I'm very intimidated about using things in my classroom. I know that I'm going to be really cautious when pulling resources to use. I don't understand how no one has talked to us or taught us some of this information - especially because we have been given PowerPoint assignments so frequently. They never told us to be careful about pulling images from google or to even be aware.