Digital literacy making us smarter?

Digital Literacy Making Us Smarter

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Technology has had its significant effects to society and it is slowly changing how people live nowadays . There is no doubt that it has made lives easier , at times simpler , but this does not mean that it always has positive outcomes . One of the examples that technology has bring about negative effects to society is how it is affecting literacy and how people appreciate reading in the traditional sense . Author Christine Rosen , in her work entitled People of the Screen

' indicates that technology has now allowed people to replace books with electronic readers and the Internet so much so that traditional printed books might become a thing of the past . The thought of digital literacy replacing print literacy is alarming because it means depending too much on technology when the need to replace it is not that significant

While technology is definitely making people more capable , there is a question whether it does make them smarter . Screen reading is definitely different from traditional reading even though some people may agree to this . By contrast , screen reading , a historically recent arrival encourages a different kind of self-conception , one based on interaction and dependent on the feedback of others . It rewards participation and performance , not contemplation (Rosen People of the Screen Screen reading , thus , makes people smarter regarding technology and the different skills it needs to work . Screen reading requires people to look at monitors , push buttons , and scroll mouses over . It requires...