INTERNET AND EDUCATION: virtual classrooms for everyone? A dusty‚ one-room 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. Others who vanish for weeks on end‚ helping their parents with the year-end harvest. Still others who never come back‚ lacking the money
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Information highway or the Internet has changed the way the world goes about doing things. It is one more point in a long continuum of inventions that is set to revolutionize lifestyles. One is inclined to ask‚ how does the ability of computers to talk to each other improve the learning process in the classroom? How does it make a difference in study of epics like the Odyssey and the Iliad? These questions and more will be answered in the following passages. The Internet has a more pervasive effect
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Negative Effects of Internet in Education The Internet has evolved to become one of the fastest and most efficient tools a student can use to perform research and to learn about the world. However‚ the Internet also has created difficulties for educators who must teach and grade skills that cannot be developed through the Internet or skills that may be diminished as a result of the Internet. O Read more: Negative Effects of Internet in Education | eHow.com http://www.ehow.com/list_6360587_negative-effects-internet-education
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Advantages of Internet in Education:- A few decades earlier‚ we had to scour the public libraries‚ newspaper archives‚ and old records and files section if we wanted to find some information. However‚ with the leaps that technology has taken since then till today‚ information is available‚ quite literally‚ at the fingertips of anyone and everyone. It is the one place in the world that can provide the user with that immense‚ infinite scope of information‚ without the restrictions of space and
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especially internet in the education sector plays an important role‚ especially in the process of empowering the technology into the educational activities. Education sector can be the most effective sector to anticipate and eliminate the negative impact of ICT. Technology (internet) in another side can be the most effective way to increase the student’s knowledge. Being aware of the significant role of ICT (internet) in our life‚ especially in the educational activities‚ education authorities
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What are the contributions of Mahatma Gandhi in Education? SWASTIK Historical Development of Basic Edcuation Mahatma Gandhi explained the concept of Basic Education through a series of articles in his Harijan magazine in 1937. In the conference at Wardha after a detailed discussion about Gandhiji’s articles the scheme of Basic Education took shape under the leadership of Dr. Zakir Hussain. The following four resolutions were passed. (i) Free and compulsory education should be given
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Assess the contribution of functionalism to our understanding of education Functionalists believe that everything in a society contributes to the wellbeing and running of society‚ e.g. the government‚ the family‚ education etc. functionalists are concerned with the role of education within society‚ Durkheim and Parsons have identified 4 basic functions of education; passing on societies culture – this creates a consensus of shared norms and values. Education also provides a bridge between particularistic
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Contribution of education sector toward economic growth Abstract This report is design to show the increase in economic growth of country with the development of its education sector. An increase in the capacity of an economy to produce goods and services‚ compared from one period of time to another is known as the economic growth of a country‚ which shows the development of a country. Nations cannot be developed without investing in education. Education is
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Dishonesty and the Internet in Higher Education Just as the industrial revolution brought drastic changes to how people lived in the 18th and 19th centuries‚ the digital age is a new era in which we are living that both recently has brought and is currently bringing about many changes in the way we live. This new so called digital age has manipulated the way we live. It has changed the way we interact and socialize‚ the way we process and get information‚ and even the way we learn in education. Educationally
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society as a whole. Positivists stress greater importance on society rather than solely focussing on the individual within as society influences individual human behaviour. This has resulted in a variation of different social structures e.g. family‚ education system and religion. Positivists believe the collection of data should be collected objectively and categorised. Data should be expressed in numerical form‚ e.g. percentages‚ statistics‚ questionnaires etc. This means that it can be quantified
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