Have Classroom Teachers Become Less Important with the Increased Use of the Internet in Education?

he Impact of the Internet on Schools

For this essay, I read an Article called: The Netgeneration: Internet as a classroom and community. After reading the article I came up with some very good points on how the internet has effected the way school are ran compared to the pre-computer and internet age. My conclusions are that the Internet has changed school classroom for the good by making information widely available and useable to even the poorest of schools. The internet has made it possible for teachers to communicate and learn what other teachers are doing in other countries by talking to colleagues in other countries and reading reports and research studies findings before they read the teaching methods books. The Internet also, gives teachers the ability to teach a class online so that their students will be able to stay on task when they are not able to come to class. The online class idea has also made it possible for the average person to get his or her degree with out having to go to a college campus physically.

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.

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Because of the Internet it is possible for schools to have access to books with out having them on the shelves of school libraries. New books and research studies are posted on the Internet daily for the world to read. In the past if you where from a poor school or a shelterd community that banded books from school libraries you may not be able to read some important infromantion. Making the student that had the oportunity to read and learn this new infromation better educated than a person whom did not have the same books in there school library shelves. The author of the article The internet as a classroom explains this fact when she says, "We have arrived at a new moment in history: a moment in which such terms as class, race, gender, sexuality, nationality and ideology are no longer useful" (Hendricks). This statement applies to education because information can be found on any subject on the web. If a school has a ban on reading a book a student can still find and read it online if he or she wants to. Censorship is not possible because of the technology called Internet. The following is a site that offers banned books to be bought online: http://Onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/banned-books.html

One of the hardest parts of being a teacher is that you are left alone to prepare and teach lessons. Teachers in the past where left in the dark to new ideas dealing with there profession Until it was published in an education journal. If a teacher had learning disabled student and the school did not have special education department the teacher could not get any help with teaching the student. Now in the age of the Internet a teacher can talk to other educators online and get new ideas. Many web sites and chat rooms have been made to aid teachers.

Here are some links that I found that teachers could go to find help and new ideas.

http://www.nea.org/

http://www.rhlschool.com/

http://atozteacherstuff.com/

The Internet has given way to the online classroom. Before the Internet the only way to get a degree was too physically step foot on a college campus. The Internet has made it possible to get a high level of education from your home. You can even watch and listen to lectures online. This innovation gives many people the opportunity to improve their careers without having to quit their jobs and leave their families for hours and months to go to school. Online classrooms also help students in elementary, middle school and high school not lose ground when they are unable to attend class. Many teachers have class web sites where they put notes, lectures and homework assignments for their students to use in case they miss class. So online classrooms have made it possible for students to attend class with out physically being in the classroom.
The Internet has improved education by leaps and bounds.

Information that was once out of reach for some is now available. Teachers have more options to improve their craft.

Students can attend class without walking into the door of a school are just some of the improvements the Internet has made on education. The Internet has given education endless possibilities to improve.