Essay On Critical Reading And Thinking Skills

Deep and critical reading in today’s modern day culture has become a struggle due to the constant presence of technology. Reading in today’s culture has never been more widespread. However, the way we go about reading and thinking has had a negative effect on human society. This is due to the infection of technology. The consequences of irresponsible technology use include lack of focusing ability, lack of critical thinking skills, lack of critical reading skills, and much more. These negatives then affect our everyday life and have currently had a lasting effect on the millennial generation. To go about fixing this problem, we must disconnect from technology. Once we are able to disconnect from technology, either through nature or other activities and begin to learn how to critically think, we will start to see and experience benefits. I have been able to witness this in my own personal experience. Due to the constant presence of technology in today’s modern culture, the individual’s critical reading and thinking skills have been negatively affected. How has the presence of technology impacted our critical reading and thinking skills negatively? Now, when we read, our concentration begins to drift, we become fatigued more easily, and overall our attention to what we read diminishes after a short while. …show more content…
With the Internet at our fingertips, we can “find solutions to questions online and take information that the internet supplies rather than analyzing topics and critically thinking on our own” (3 Weyers). In Carr’s essay “Is Google Making Us Stupid”, he argues that through distractions that are always present on the Internet, we are reducing our ability to retain, conceptualize, and comprehend information. While technology has been beneficial to society, it has come at a cost – the cost of a person’s critical thinking