{"id":571,"count":6,"description":"Nick Carr has made the controversial assertion that Google is making us stupid in his new book, The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains<\/a><\/em>. Nearly all of the debate around Mr. Carr\u2019s provocative and thoughtful book is focused on areas that are traditionally well-saturated with media, both physical and, increasingly, digital. What, though, of the developing world where printed material is traditionally not as widely disseminated and where basic literacy is sometimes lower? As low-cost digital devices proliferate throughout poor regions, is it a reason to worry or a cause for celebration? Simply put, is a mobile phone in the hands of an impoverished student better or worse than no book at all?","link":"https:\/\/edutechdebate.org\/archive\/literacies-old-and-new\/","name":"Literacies: Old and New","slug":"literacies-old-and-new","taxonomy":"category","parent":0,"meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/edutechdebate.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/571"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/edutechdebate.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/edutechdebate.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/category"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/edutechdebate.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?categories=571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}