Today, students all around the world are experiencing the Google Effect and its positive attributes. This technological globalization is very useful in schools today because many programs and teachers are fading away from strictly memorization based techniques and more creative thinking and applying these concepts to outsource your knowledge to the teacher. This is beneficial because now students may access any information at any time. In an article from Forbes, the author states "To some education theorists, this might read as a positive development. After all, if everything we know is stored online, and we all carry around smart phones to instantly aid with factual queries, and our brains are actually adjusting to these changes, then it appears that technology and biology have at last converged into one seamless, packet-fueled stream"
Even in a personal primary perspective, I have experienced the Google Effect in high school when we programmed our classroom with a classroom from overseas and we were learning about the topic of globalization with them and asked questions from a primary source that we would not have been able to obtain if research was entirely completed offline.
Research is evolving and is helping design new ways to obtain it which in any terms should be considered beneficial as long as a balance is demonstrated between offline and online research as mentioned in previous posts.
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