!Mira que luna! Look at that moon! Resources for learning English
Fernando Olivera: El rapto.- TEXT FROM THE NOVEL The goldfinch by Donna Tartt (...) One night we were in San Antonio, and I was having a bit of a melt-down, wanting my own room, you know, my dog, my own bed, and Daddy lifted me up on the fairgrounds and told me to look at the moon. When "you feel homesick", he said, just look up. Because the moon is the same wherever you go". So after he died, and I had to go to Aunt Bess -I mean, even now, in the city, when I see a full moon, it's like he's telling me not to look back or feel sad about things, that home is wherever I am. She kissed me on the nose. Or where you are, puppy. The center of my earth is you". The goldfinch Donna Tartt 4441 English edition
Friday, July 22, 2011
The Internet Is Changing Our Memory (18th July, 2011). Reading practice.
New research suggests the Internet is changing our
memory. Researchers from Colombia University presented people with different
questions and found many began to think of computers. Lead researcher Dr Betsy
Sparrow said that when test participants knew the answers would be available on
a computer, they did less well on the memory tests. She said we use the
Internet as a new “transactive memory”. We rely on this to do the remembering
for us. It’s similar to our personal data being backed up on a hard disk. The
Internet acts as a huge storage device for all the world’s knowledge, that is
there when we need it. Dr Sparrow said computers were not making us less
intelligent. “I don't think Google is making us stupid. We're just changing the
way that we're remembering things,” she said.
Dr Sparrow believes we are becoming very good at
remembering where we keep information in different folders on our computers.
She said: "This suggests that for the things we can find online, we tend
to keep it online as far as memory is concerned - we keep it externally stored."
She explained that because we are remembering the location of the information,
rather than the information itself, we are becoming better at organising huge
quantities of data and facts in a more accessible way. She also said the way we
use technology is changing our need to remember things, saying: “If you can
find stuff online even while you're walking down the street these days, then
the skill to have, the thing to remember, is where to go to find the
information." http://www.breakingnewsenglish.com/1107/110718-memory.html
PICTURE SOURCE: interestingfactsworld.com
New research suggests the Internet is changing our
memory. Researchers from Colombia University presented people with different
questions and found many began to think of computers. Lead researcher Dr Betsy
Sparrow said that when test participants knew the answers would be available on
a computer, they did less well on the memory tests. She said we use the
Internet as a new “transactive memory”. We rely on this to do the remembering
for us. It’s similar to our personal data being backed up on a hard disk. The
Internet acts as a huge storage device for all the world’s knowledge, that is
there when we need it. Dr Sparrow said computers were not making us less
intelligent. “I don't think Google is making us stupid. We're just changing the
way that we're remembering things,” she said.
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