Is online activity making professors more absent‑minded?
My research indicates that the online revolution is one of the factors dumbing down the very people we count on to preserve society’s vast stores of knowledge: university professors, wrote Carletons Heather Menzies in an opinion piece May 1 in the Toronto Star. She referred to a British study that revealed that constant e-mailing reduces office workers’ IQ by as many as 10 points more than twice the decrease in the mental abilities of someone who smokes a joint. I wondered as I wandered the increasingly empty and silent halls of academe, what does this mean for students, she wrote. The unsettling answer came from a survey of 100 professors at six universities I did with York University sociologist Janice Newson. It maps how the restructured university campus of the late 1990s has changed not just how today’s academics use their time, but how they exist in time. We learned that professors are less able to stay focused, read comprehensively and follow through on informal and professional
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