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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We live in a world of technology where information flourishes. The internet has grown rapidly together with the technology and has paced the speed of exchange in information. Questions that arouse in our head used to remain unanswered until we actually took the energy‚ time‚ and effort to flip through the pages of the heavy books in the library. But today‚ questions are answered instantly with a few clicks on the internet search engine such as Google. The internet is prepared to give out the answers
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to students‚ which offers great potential for the speed and style of learning. Information is presented in so many ways that any type learner‚ whether gifted or disabled‚ can find and use the necessary material. This fact relates not only to the Internet‚ but to all the many technological improvements in learning‚ from smart boards to handheld dictionaries. Loss of Skills o With this increased access to knowledge also comes a probable loss of communication skills and interactive abilities between
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consumer using social networking. In other words‚ we have moved from structured to unstructured information‚ and from company usage to anyone using technology. The future will be one where unstructured information used by anyone on the planet will be related and analysed‚ so that information becomes intuitive. The thing is that this changes our thinking dramatically. For example‚ the millennial (also known as the Generation Y or Gen-Y‚ and born between 1982 and 1995) is now our mainstream
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affects our lives There is no doubt that technology has affected all of our lives. Whether it is positive or negative will be determined by the success of our ability to communicate with those around us. Now days the pace of innovation is increasing every day. It’s always a race to have the newest coolest technology. * The Internet is the fastest-growing tool of communication ever. It took radio broadcasters 38 years to reach an audience of 50 million‚ television 13 years‚ and the Internet just
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Task 2: Social Impacts Assignment 2: Introduction: Welcome to my blog‚ my name is Rajmeet Sarna ‚I am employed at Cranford Estates and i will providing information to my boss on the social impacts and potential threats of ICT. Social Impacts: People use most of their free time on watching TV or using the Internet on social networking sites such as Facebook twitter and Myspace. The advantages of ICT on socially is that it creates jobs. Since social networking sites were created people
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There is almost no place that you can go where technology hasn’t been used. Technology affects our daily lives in everything that we do; it saves time‚ creates a world of endless learning‚ and makes traveling to halfway around the world effortless. Technology greatly reduces the time it takes to perform lives everyday tasks. Daily chores such as mowing the grass or doing the dishes have been reduced from hours to twenty minutes with the invention of the automatic dishwasher and gas powered lawn
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Embracing Internet Has destroyed Social Norms The advancement of technology has made it possible for people from different areas to be able to connect easily. It is the advancement of Internet that has made globalization a reality and also helped to increase and improve the level of investments in different countries. The fact is that Internet has brought about good effects on the community and especially in the business sector. The cost of operating a business from one region to another has been
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ELECTROSTATICS INFLUENCE OUR LIVES? INTRODUCTION We all are familiar with the term electricity which comes from batteries and which is used to light bulbs‚ buzzers‚ and other electrical devices. We also know that conductors are those objects which conduct electricity easily and insulators do not conduct electricity at all. This is basic knowledge but right now we are going into detail about electricity and static electricity. ELECTROSTATICS Many of us have this wrong concept in our mind that insulators
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INTRO Today social networking is something that is occupying a very important role in the social lives of the common people. But what actually is this social network? Social network in simple language means to develop relationship with society members. However with passage of time‚ the definition of society has also changed a lot. Now society means a group of people having alike thinking. Also these days society not only exists near the home only‚ but it exists even on the Internet. Such community
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