Sherry Turkle's How Computers Change The Way We Think

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Sherry Turkle in “How Computers Change the Way we Think” expresses how computers are changing education. In the years before computers, the world developed a deeper understand into the topics being taught. Now as education consist mainly of computers, psychological differences are beginning to appear in society. You can now just skim and scan, not developing a deep understanding to what is happening around you. Turkle intends to inform the reader that even though education is now computer based, society should still be provoked to understand in depth knowledge of a subject. This raises a tone of concern, as many Americans don’t possess key knowledge without a computer to help. Turkle uses expository writing ideas based upon psychological
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