Stumbled across this interesting article from Online College listing fifteen ways the internet is rewiring our brains. Definitely worth reading the full article if you’ve got a few minutes and have noticed some of these things already in your own experience:
- The Internet is our external hard drive
- Children are learning differently
- We hardly ever give tasks our full attention
- We don’t bother to remember
- We’re getting better at finding information
- Difficult questions make us think about computers
- IQ is increasing over time
- Our concentration is suffering
- We’re getting better at determining relevance
- We’re becoming physically addicted to technology
- The more you use the Internet, the more it lights up your brain
- Our brains constantly seek out incoming information
- We’ve become power browsers
- Online thinking persists even offline
- Creative thinking may suffer