Reading Guide for "Technology has a Message"

1. Complete this sentence: "This notion fails to recognize that technology itself _________ ___ ______________.
   
   
2. Because technology is a response to God, we have both _________________ and ____________________.
   
   
3. Andy Crouch suggests two questions to ask about culture/technology. They are:
   
   1. _________________________________________________________________
   
   2. _________________________________________________________________
   
   
4. Fill in the blanks: "In other words, ________________ is value-laden, and these values make some things
   
   possible, while at the same time _____________ ______________ ____________ __________________.
   
   
5. What does "value-laden" means? _________________________________________________________
   
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6. Schuurman writes, "Furthermore, we are gradually shaped as certain ways of thinking and knowing are
   
   amplified and others are muted."  What ways of thinking are amplified/muted by Microsoft Word?  (Perhaps
   
   compare the use of it to writing on paper or using a typewriter.)   _________________________________
   
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7. Is adoption of technology unstoppable?  What would change if you gave up your cell phone or closed
   
   your Facebook account? ________________________________________________________________
   
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8. What has the web made more difficult, according to Nicolas Carr? _______________________________
   
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9. According to a 2009 research study, screen-based technology improves "visual-spatial skills," while at the
   
   same time it weakens ______________________________ and "mindful knowledge acquisition,
   
   inductive analysis, ______________________________, __________________, and _______________.