Postman and the Google Articales

There were many media-related themes that connected between the Postman reading and the two Google articles. I would like to mention two. The first connection was the mechanical clock in the, Is Google Making Me Stupid. Postman (page 11) and the Google article both quote Lewis Mumford description of the clock. The clock made us time keepers. It decides when we are going to eat, to work, to sleep. We stopped listening to our senses and started obeying the clock. The clock connects to my teaching in a big way. My school is structured into 42 minute periods with no bells as reminders. I am constantly looking at the clock for time management. My lessons have to be planned accordingly. Something that my school has had to deal with the last two years is our newest population of students from Africa have to be taught how to follow time and be on time to classes. They have no concept of time. Very similar to what happened before the fourteenth century. The second theme has to do with the world of fragments. Postman points out that the world of news are events that stand alone, stripped of any connection to the past or future, or to other events. The Google articale states the more we use the web, the more we have to fight to stay focused on long pieces of writing. I have noticed this happening with the Burlington Free Pree. The Free Press news articales are shorter and shorter. Just recently they have started to publish a section of many small news stories. So much differnet then in the years past. Know I know why after reading the Google articales. Thanks!!