About the Internet in Education

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INTERNET IN EDUCATION
Importance of Internet in Education at Schools :
The importance of the internet as a learning tool is significant. The
development of Internet technologies has raised the education level in all
countries and it has changed the way students are being taught at schools.
That’s why it is very important for the present generation that they
provide internet education for their young generations.Internet
applications respond to students and other people’s questions in real-time.
Students are seeing Google as a new Teacher and the Internet as a school.
That’s why it is important for teachers to use information technology in
education. The Internet has been crucial in the evolution of our education
system in various ways. Teachers can use the internet as a modern tool
for education. Education department should provide the infrastructure
that teachers and student can use to get benefits of technology in
education. Students are always curious and creative by nature. They are
smart enough to know how they can use the internet to search for almost
anything. It doesn’t matter if they are studying at a private school or a
government school. But at the same time, there is a difference in the ways
they use the internet for education in schools. In private schools, teachers
will teach about computer and internet skills to students. The students
note the homework that needs to be done related to that computer class.
And do you know how some students do this? They are forced to go to
a cyber cafe with their parents to collect data that they have to include in
their assignments. This is not good. If students are taking the help of
cyber boy to collect the data for their homework I don’t think these
students learned anything in this process. But the one thing they do learn
is that money can work wonders anywhere.

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Benefits of Internet Education :
The teaching process that schools are following is not good and they need
to use the internet as a tool, not the source. The source is a student.
Teachers need to explore creativity in their student’s minds. And then
students can learn and solve problems using their own creativity and
innovative thinking and not by the direct work of parents/tuition. If
necessary the parents can help with encouragement but they should not
do the homework themselves. Completing the assignment given is not as
important as the learning process that a child goes through while doing it.
It is essential for parents to provide computer and internet facilities to
their children. It is not that easy for parents to pick up modern
technologies as fast as their children but it is very important that parents
also know about the importance of computer literacy and internet
education. In government school especially in India, the level of
computer and internet infrastructure is very low. I know the government
school or school in villages provides computer education only after the
9th or 10th class. Within that little time too, a government school student
barely gets to learn much because there are 5-10 students who are
assigned a single computer. It is very difficult to learn this way. I agree
that this is the best time to teach them about the advanced computer skills
but this is not the way to do it. The lack of Information technology
infrastructure in schools is a big question mark against Government
policies towards computer education. It feels bad to see on the news that
computer teachers are on strike again. This happens once a year. The
government must think, how computer teachers can teach with
low-quality IT infrastructure in government schools and a small salary?

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Uses of the Internet in Education :
 Students can search what they want to learn about by the use of
Google or other search engines like Bing, Yahoo, etc.
 Students can learn and take online classes anytime and anywhere.
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 Notes and research papers all are available on the internet and just a
click away.
 Students can get tuition online and they can watch videos on
YouTube related to mathematics, English language, physics or any
other information about any topic related to their school homework.
 Teachers can use social media to connect with students and share
motivational quotes as well as subject-related articles and notes.
 Teachers can teach by the use of animation, PowerPoint slides, and
images to capture the student’s attention.
 Teachers can record their own lectures or topics on camera and
upload them to YouTube.
 Parents can also see what their student’s teachers are doing on
Facebook.
 Parents can also help children by watching the same topic on the
internet. They also can learn on the internet for their personal
development so that later they can contribute to their kid’s education.
References :
 https://www.gnu.org/education/edu-system-india.en.html
 http://varnam.org/blog/2007/08/the_story_behind_macaulays_edu.