The web has become an apparent part of the global village; it has emerged as a tool to break various barriers across global boundaries and physical variations. The web has increasingly gained a lot of relevance in our day to day activities that its modern use has factored in our daily living procedures and most secured entities and boundaries rely on it. The web has become a place where everyone can place their view and read others view. The documents available on the web will enhance various ways to help the education research of the public. The path to learning will entail knowing the best way to research and improve than re-inventing the wheel for already studied aspects of knowledge.
The web has an important aspect to play in the lives of our children in the future and with the enormous documents that are readily available to supplement the traditional teaching aids and information they will be exposed to will be more updated to keep them at least a par with their peers, there will be very good benefits and of course disadvantages of this media as the original design of the web did not put into consideration the learning pattern of the web. This therefore will expose the kids to other Research from the National centre for Education statistics, 2002(Els Kuiper et al, 2005) shows that 99% of the public schools in America have access to the internet in 2001.
The web will therefore play a part in children’s lives now and in the near future because: * Increased knowledge and information from chat rooms and platforms will help learn about different cultures and break barrier of communication and stigma. * Because the internet has a lot of information that is vast, this information might be useful and harmful. Support and guidance will be required for the
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