Is Modern Media Destroying Memory?

 As technology has advanced, has our memory? or did it get worse? Jared Horvath talks about how it may have. He states that how our memory is 3 easy steps: encode information, store information, and retrieve information from the brain. How we decode information has changed, we try to gather too information in one sitting which is why we forget a lot of things a week later that were important. 

For example, people don't remember theirs or even others people's phone numbers, emails, or meeting because our phone or computer remembers it for us. We have gotten lazy and it shows in society today. I hope that we can utilize what technology is for without diminishing how we learn and retain information because I feel this. When I back in middle school, I actually enjoyed school and remembered a lot of information but the older I got, the less information I retained. 

I think this a problem that every school should address and students to take responsibility on how to learn as well. 

Aliyah Ashby 11 October 2020

https://www.the-scientist.com/critic-at-large/is-modern-media-destroying-our-memories--67483