In the article “How Google, Wikipedia Have Changed Our Lives” she discusses how she banned her students from using Wikipedia and Google. “As a child I was sitting in a damp back room in my grandparents’ house poring over encyclopedias, dreaming about faraway places like Spain. In high school, Encyclopedia Britannica was the go-to-source for research. I haven’t been to the library in 10 years. But I use the internet for absolutely everything related to research. I passively relied on the classroom experience for information, and found myself inspired by every lesson. If I was a student in class today, my tolerance for waiting as a result of my internet attention span. I might rudely get out my smartphone to cut to the chase. The more “convenient”
