Introduction The internet has helped students, of all ages, have easier access to information, expand ways of learning, and it has helped the amount of online graduates increase dramatically. Internet has brought education and learning to a whole new level.
Access To Information
Everyday students are complaining about how they don't want to carry all their books around, how they are heavy, and just downright annoying. Just one computer can contain all that information in those books and weigh less than half of them, thanks to the internet. “The world’s encyclopedia is as weightless, free and instantly accessible as Wikipedia, which is quickly gaining legitimacy in the education sphere. Using the Internet, you can learn a new language or delve into the depths of metaphysics with just a click of a mouse. The Web has unlocked the keys to a
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There are millions of websites that can help someone find information. The possibilities are endless when it comes to the internet. Not only students use the internet for help on homework, research project, or other school based activities. Adults can use it to learn and help when they are having trouble. “While the Internet does a lot for students, there are also benefits for parents and teachers. The interactive learning that the Internet provides can help students and parents with little or no English skills to learn English. Parents can become more involved in their children's education by connecting the school with homes, libraries or other access ports”(Lui, 2015, p.1).
Expanding Learning Abilities
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The Internet gives us a seemingly endless supply of resources; we can search for information, communicate with others, or use it for our own personal work or pleasure. The Internet connects us to the rest of the evolving world, in all different countries around the world. With the ability to seek information on the Internet, we can gain knowledge about an endless supply of topics. For example, if someone wanted to learn how to plant a tree they can simply navigate to Google and type in “how to plant a tree.” Furthermore, thousands of pages will appear with step by step instructions demonstrating the process of planting a tree. This knowledge has made our society smarter because we can figure things out on our own, but at the same time save money; we do not have to pay someone else to tell us how to plant a tree. It can really benefit students in school because it allows u...
This article discusses the use of the Internet in the classroom and how it can be used to personalize education. The effectiveness of the Internet in the classroom is evaluated at the Henry Hudson Regional School in Highlands, New Jersey. A faculty member at the school explains that the Internet was introduced to their classrooms to expand limited electives, advanced placement, and foreign language offerings. The use of the Internet allows small schools to provide an education that would not be economically possible without it.
...be expected to live up to its potential.”(Winzer, 98) Some of the problems associated with the internet are inaccurate information, lack or need for censorship, cost and proper use. Other types of programs that are in this category are electronic field trips and interactive distance learning. Through these types of programs, children can gain knowledge and experience different places without having to leave their classroom.
Sociocultural factors have had influences as to how a family is to function based on societal norms. Society has created an image as to what certain family members are expected to do as a family, but has also prevented family members from doing what they are supposed to do. Factors such as preschool, parent’s education, applying to college, and working parents have affected parent’s involvement in their children’s education, creating benefits and threats. Schools now offer early childhood classes where parents can enroll their children to get a head start in their education. Depending on the parent’s circumstances of enrolling their children, it is usually based on having low income or it is a great way to maintain their children ahead for the upcoming school year.
Newspapers becoming available on the internet, which can be accessed from most any mobile device, allows people to be informed while on the go. Rupert Murdoch created a newspaper called the Daily that allowed anyone with an iPad to view issues for ninety-nine cents a week (Vivian 95). Though this app was directed at a specific audience – iPad users who are willing to pay for their news. This app shows an example of the profitable world for newspapers online. Bringing the news online like this could result in a more informed democracy.
TOK Exploratory Essay Echo Xu 5/12/16 How should a college student decide a major? One of the challenging decisions for future college students falls on choosing a major. Major choices will strongly impact students’ future life and living standards based on earning, future pursue of degrees and career choices. It is a dynamic decision for college students and they should decide their major by their personality, interests and future occupational choices.
Libraries have been around for ages. And as the years have passed, they have had to adapt to keep up with the times. Even so, how do they manage to stay relevant, when there are other devices and applications that rival that which libraries offer, and that are much more easily accessible? Libraries are able to stay relevant due to community support - especially that of the younger generations, and also because they provide services that people in the community might not be able to afford, such as the use of a computer or a printer for free or at a very low cost (10 cents a page after the first two pages). Libraries have been able to stay afloat for this long by catering to a community’s needs and interests - which had they not been so flexible, would have made the need for a library irrelevant.
Numerous people praise the Internet and its ability to educate young people. More and more schools are switching to online learning to help children academically. Studies have shown that educational games can help children’s visual intelligence skills (Subrahmanyam, Kaveri, et al. 128). Similarly, some research has found that computer use helps kids in their alphabet recognition, language, early mathematical knowledge and learning (Bremer 412). Contrastly, homework may contribute to academic and intellectual benefits, but the gains are relatively small compared to the negative effects of the Internet on mental health (Shields, Margie, and Behrman 10). Other research has shown that computers alone are not a sufficient replacement of actual teachers and classrooms. Several studies show the Internet to be a hindrance when it comes to academic achievement and cognitive development. Even computer learning software has been know to smite creativity (Bremer
Did you know that students/children socialize and get smarter using the internet! Students tend to talk more on the internet instead of reality, also students use resources like Youtube and Khan Academy to get smarter if they don't understand a subject. Therefore, children/students get more socialized/smarter while they are using the internet.
If kids are using the internet the right way, they are being benefited without even knowing that they are. Despite fueling an age of technological marvels, the Internet is often derided as being as harmful to humanity as it is helpful. But even if a steady diet of cat videos and Facebook posts isn’t a recipe for mental acuity, the Internet really is making the children of today smarter. Using
The Impact of the Internet on Education A dusty, one-bedroom schoolhouse on the edge of a village. An overworked teacher trying to manage a room full of boisterous children. Students sharing schoolbooks that are in perpetual short supply, crammed in rows of battered desks. Children worn out after long treks to school, stomachs rumbling with hunger.
In total the Internet has not only increased the amount of learning possibilities in the classroom but it has created infinite amounts of learning opportunities for students and teachers.
First of all, the Internet, one of the greatest inventions in the history, joined almost all types of telecommunication invented previously such as telephone, radio and television into one, and created new forms of communication such as online text messages, video chatting and social networking. The opportunity of adding and receiving the information on the Internet is one of the aspects stimulating people go online. The simplicity of using the Internet is attracting more and more people in all over the world and the popularity of the Internet is growing even among the youngest aged group of people. To this extent the variety of the information online and vast amount of opportunities provided by websites attract especially children due to their curiosity to know and learn more about the world. However, as in the case with almost all technology, along with benefits come the negative impact of the Internet on children’s development overall.
their dorm room or apartment is sit down at their computer and go online. They proceed to either, read their e-mail, check their online courses for new assignments, or go on one of the many communication websites or programs that are available currently to this generation. None of this would be possible without the readily available Internet access that we often take for granted. The Internet has proven not only useful for entertainment purposes, but has also dramatically changed the educational approach, for both students and educators, and the way knowledge is being obtained.
How often does one find himself checking the Internet for directions? How easy has the ability to find answers to questions become? How hard is the opportunity to check one’s Internet to pass up? Why has the Internet become an every day, every hour part of life? With the capabilities of the Internet and what one can spend his time doing on the Internet, the questions about the future of the Internet’s affects on its users continues to grow rapidly. The use of computer technology in the classroom is growing to be a major concern for parents and educators all over. How much time should children be allowed to browse on the Internet? Is the Internet affecting the children’s, the future of society, ability to focus? Should parents and educators trust the websites that students get their information from? Although the Internet has done an absolutely fabulous job at making what may have seemed impossible possible, with live video chatting, music streaming, and online books, the Internet is definitely responsible reading and intellectual engagement problems in students.