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A.D.A.M. "Autism." Google Health. Google. Web. 3 Nov. 2010. . - This site just gives the basic medical diagnosis of Autism. I think in order to explain Autism's effects on literacy (or whatever you're doing), you need to first explain generally what Autism is. That way, you have a base on which to form your argument. If the person reading your paper has no prior knowledge of Autism, then they will be completely in the dark while reading it. The site gives a general medical overview of Autism's causes, symptoms, and treatments.

Larson, Natasja, Jim Parsons, and Laura Servage. "The Google-ization of Knowledge." Online Submission (2007): ERIC. EBSCO. Web. 20 Nov. 2010. The article looks at how Google has changed how knowledge is used, accessed, and the impact it has on those that seek and create it. They suggest that Google is reshaping, how knowledge counts as important, helps business, education, among other things. The authors suggest that the way we access information and how it is presented to us changes how we view knowledge and its creditability.

Anderson, Janna, Lee Rainie. "Does Google Make Us Stupid?" Pew Research Center. 19 Feb. 2010. Web. 19 Nov. 2010. This article questions whether if the ease of internet searching and the distractions that accompany it is decreasing people's ability to concentrate. Rather than deep reading, we now simply skim and find answers quickly causing us to not really learn about the subject fully and instead we learn only about bits and pieces of it.

What the Internet is doing to our brains

Schneider, Joan. "Besides Google: Guiding Gifted Elementary Students onto the Entrance Ramp of the Information Superhighway." Gifted Child Today 32.1 (2009): 27-31. ERIC. EBSCO. Web. 22 Nov. 2010. In this, Schneider explores how the internet is affecting gifted students in how they find resources that their libraries just can't possibly contain. Within the last decade the internet has become a major tool and curriculum are being changed to go along with it. The ones that are excelling are the students that can process large amounts of information quickly and relatively accurately.

Corbett, Patrick. "What about the "Google Effect"? Improving the Library Research Habits of First-Year Composition Students." Teaching English in the Two-Year College 37.3 (2010): 265-277. ERIC. EBSCO. Web. 20 Nov. 2010. The article talks about how the students' research behavior affect the tradtional method of library research in first-year writing courses and then gives an alternate method using libbraries and internet search tools. They details the obligation that educators place on students to use the tools to find relevant information. They present a human-computer interaction study that offers a possible explanation as to the interaction of the students and their non-academic information searches.