¿Y si rizamos el rizo un poquillo?

El otro día estaba leyendo la biografía de Marshall McLuhan (julio 1911 - diciembre 1980) en la Wikipedia y hubo una párrafo que me llegó especialmente :

Es habitual que pensemos que los medios no son sino fuentes a través de las cuales recibimos información, pero la concepción de McLuhan era que cualquier tecnología (todo medio) es una extensión de nuestro cuerpo, mente o ser. Los medios tecnológicos son entendidos como herramientas que extienden las habilidades humanas, del mismo modo que una bicicleta o un automóvil son una extensión de nuestros pies... la computadora sería una extensión de nuestro sistema nervioso central.

Si cogemos esta idea y la fundimos con la de Marc Prenksy:

Today’s students – K through college – represent the first generations to grow up with this new technology. They have spent their entire lives surrounded by and using computers, videogames, digital music players, video cams, cell phones, and all the other toys and tools of the digital age. Today’s average college grads have spent less than 5,000 hours of their lives reading, but over 10,000 hours playing video games (not to mention 20,000 hours watching TV). Computer games, email, the Internet, cell phones and instant messaging are integral parts of their lives.
It is now clear that as a result of this ubiquitous environment and the sheer volume of their interaction with it, today’s students think and process information fundamentally differently from their predecessors.
As we shall see in the next installment, it is very likely that our students’ brains have physically changed – and are different from ours – as a result of how they grew up. But whether or not this is literally true, we can say with certainty that their thinking patterns have changed.

Obtenemos....