Where can college students find some important data at the midnight when all the libraries close? The answer is: if they search on Google and they can get whatever they want. Doesn’t it sound pretty convenient while the student who gets in trouble? Absolutely! However, this kind of approach caused the college students to think less. Nicholas Carr says in the article “Is Google Making Us Stupid, “The more they use the Web, the more they have to fight to stay focused on long pieces of writing” (Is Google Making Us Stupid? 17). People are living with the help of the Google currently. Google is like a double-edged sword. It not only brings students good matters but also the bad things.
So what kind of good things can Google provide college students?
There is no doubt that students can save lots of time by using Google. As everyone knows, college students have to write many research papers and study for their courses. And each paper can probably take the amount of their time to finish. People can understand that time is important to the college students. First, let’s imagine what will happen if …show more content…
According to the article “Is Google Making Us Stupid?”, the author Nicholas Carr says that “The Internet, an immeasurably powerful computer system, is subsuming most of our other intellectual technologies. It’s becoming our map and our clock, our printing press and our type writer, our calculator and our telephone, and our radio and TV (Is Google Making Us Stupid? 21).” What Carr claims is that the Internet is omniscient. Therefore, students can get access to knowledge through Google and they can get their answer with merely a few seconds. They do not even need to take extra time to go to the library. They more time they save by using Google, the more time they can have to work on their paper and study. As a result, students can definitely save time by using