Lesson 16: The Internet and Education

The Internet and Education

Internet is an organized collection of about 25,000 networks accessed by computers on the planet. It has no central headquarters, no centrally offered services, and no comprehensive online index to tell users what information is available in the system. It is coordinated through a standardized protocol (or set of rules for exchanging data) called Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP). It is originally developed and still subsidized by the United States government, the internet connect not only commercial, industrial, scientific establishments but all other sectors including and its libraries, campuses, and computer centers.

Through net the information is on our hands. It is only a click on a finger the information is there. With the use of browser in surfing the internet particularly the World Wide Web, an Internet’s subset of text, images, and sounds are link together to allow users to access data or information needed.

In education the school use internet to be fast forward of their works. We can use also an educational application to help the students easier to access their school activities. The advantages of Internet in the user is that they can easily scan information in the computer than going to the library. But make student to be lazy in working by their own. And making them less sociable and effortless in doing such thing.

In our mythology and folklore last semester, we had a quest in Edmodo. As I experience, I felt nervous and tense that I cannot answer and read will the question and hurriedly answer all the items because the time is near to be elapse. As now I must prefer a paper and pencil test than in the Internet. It give more pressure and horrifying in term of answering.

We can see that there are advantages and dis advantages in using the internet as the source of educating students but we consider that we have in the edge of technology. Whether we accept it or not the technology is on our hand and it depend on how we use it. As a teacher we are here to guide and educate students with the use of technology.