Reading Reflection No. 2

The general argument of the book is that people today utilize their free time better than in than in the past. This book enhanced what we are learning in this class because it emphasizes that in our free time we are constantly identifying markets, whether that be through ads we see or playing random games. The exercise I would devise based on the book is to assign students to try and not use internet in their free time. Then, I would have the students reflect back on what they did in their free time compared to what they do on a regular basis, but make sure it is very detailed. I would ask questions such as, "In your free time, what exactly did you do on the internet?," "Did you learn anything from doing those things on the internet?", and then ask would ask the same questions about what they did on the day they did not use the internet. My biggest surprise was the claim that we use free time more efficiently. This idea was interesting to me because you always here the phrase "back in my day" and I kind of just assumed that people wasted less time in the past mostly because the internet did not exist. After reading the book, I realized, although we are wasting time by searching on the web or looking at our phones, our brains are actively learning.