![]() ![]() ![]() This book will cause educators to pause-even as we become a culture of digital natives-to reassess our strategies, long-term outcomes, principles, and perceptions regarding what it means to be human, and what it means to teach with wisdom.Ĭarr arranges his text across key themes. Every new medium changes us, even as we engage it. ![]() From this premise, Carr unfolds his arguments about both the power and subtlety of technology and its prevalent use. When Nicholas Carr quotes Marshall McLuhan in the prologue of his book The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains, he introduces the key premise that media not only alters perception, but works on the nervous system itself. Rather, they alter “patterns of perception steadily and without any resistance” (Carr 3). “The effects of technology do not occur at the level of opinions or concepts,” wrote McLuhan. ![]()
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