How the internet affects memory and learning

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Case Study: Refer to these 3 papers that report studies of the "Google effect" on memory and how individual characteristics interact with the ability to use the internet for learning.

Google Effects on Memory: Cognitive Consequences of Having Information at Our Fingertips (2011). By Betsy Sparrow, Jenny Liu, Daniel M. Wegner
Supernormal: How the Internet Is Changing Our Memories and Our Minds (2013). By Adrian F. Ward
It Is About the Web andthe User: The Effects of Web Use Depend
on Person Characteristics (2013). By Kai Sassenberg

Question 1: Give an evaluative summary of the papers on how the internet affects memory & learning
Question 2: What the issues are with respect to how the internet has changed the study of memory and learning, and why they are important to the study of cognition
Question 3: Summarize the findings discussed in the Sassenberg paper, evaluate their importance, and explain how this work is related to the two other papers.
Question 4: Integration of ideas from both the learning and user characteristics side with critique on what we don't know yet, why it's important, and how we might go about studying it.
Question 5: How are human memory & learning different in the age of the internet based on the information provided in the papers

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