Im working for a presentation an any help will be cited.
There is a study published in 2011 according
to which search engines are indeed changing
our minds, in a sense that we more tend to
learn where facts can be found instead of
learning facts.
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2011/07/14/the-extended-mind-how-google-affects-our-memories/
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/333/6043/776
Regards,
Joachim
I recently do an experiement with a friend who is in Cochabamba, Bolivia.
We took screen pictures the images of a War called Guerra del Pacifico, war where were involved Chile and Bolivia, and the top images were searched in both countries were from Chile, and 8 of 15 images were repeated so a bolivian child who wants to know about "his history" or his cultural background, probably could see visual information about the chilean version of the conflict, it will depend on the ranking algorithm. In the search engine Duck Duck Go. The images collected by the engine were exactly the same in both serchings.
Ignacio, while search engines like Google have transformed our world the "search paradigm" also represents a "fast food" approach to inquiry that is calibrated to parse factoid or procedural information (who, what, when, where ... & how) but is hopelessly deficient with probing or deeper inquiry (driven by why). Google's whole suite of applications pivots around search as “the key operator on, and organizing
technology for, content”. Trouble is, why-questions are not necessarily about search
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/265378723_Theorizing_Why_in_Digital_Learning_Opening_Frontiers_for_Inquiry_and_Innovation_with_Technology
Chapter Theorizing Why in Digital Learning: Opening Frontiers for In...
I agree with you Jon, thanks Joachim for your suggestion, deeper inquery or a archaeology of knowledge (Foucault ,1969).
Could someone suggest a research, where an engine give other alernatives to that process? Is there any engine who can help us to learn facts rather than found them, as Joachim suggest?
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