Brainstorming

The link above is to the picture of my brainstorming session.

For my brainstorming session I listed all of the texts we had to choose from for this essay; Richard Restak’s essay, Sam Anderson’s article, Robin Henig’s essay, and Thomas King’s TEDx talk. Then, underneath the each person’s name, I listed the main topics or the topics that related to the prompt and circled each of them. Then I drew lines connecting the topics in each category. The orange lines represented the ideas that support how the availability of constant information could strengthen young minds and the purple lines represented the ideas that support how it could weaken young minds. I wanted to be able to see which claim would have more evidence that I could you as support in my essay. I found that for strengthening young minds I could talk about how times are changing and there is a need for speed, people are expecting more from others when it comes to being efficient, and how focus is a voluntary thing so technology is creating more options for young people to find what interests them and how they want to apply that to the world. I would you the texts from Restack, Anderson, and King for that claim. If I was to write about how constant information weakens young minds I could talk about how it is actually impossible for people to multitask and how that affects young people’s brains. I could also talk about how more jobs have many jobs for people to fulfill and how that can affect mental health of individuals, and how people are turning to drugs to try to keep up with the many impossible jobs they are being asked to do. I could also connect technology to how young people are taking longer to grow up because it is so time consuming. For this claim I would use the texts from Restack, Anderson, and Henig.