This study‚ along with many others‚ illustrates the tremendous power of books. We already knew‚ from research in 27 countries‚ that kids who grow up in a home with 500 books stay in school longer and do better. This new study suggests that introducing books into homes that may not have them also produces significant educational gains. Recently‚ Internet mavens got some bad news. Jacob Vigdor and Helen Ladd of Duke’s Sanford School of Public Policy examined computer use among a half-million 5th
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Today‚ internet very prevalent on the world. Internet have already taken a major role. But‚ internet replacement books? Internet is a global network and prevalent in every family‚ company. Internet help us search information‚ get in touch with people through email and chatting on internet. The book is a document providing information‚ knowledge of many issues in society when people read. Now‚ books very many and diverse genres. So internet replacement books. I think internet not replacement
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Books vs e-material What is the deal? Abstract: To read text on paper or on a computer screen is an everyday business for university students but which do they prefer? In this paper a research conducted at Reykjavik University in Iceland discussed. The focus is on university students’ attitudes to use books versus computers in they study. The research shows that students like both learning by reading books and from computers‚ they use computers frequently in their study but also books
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Internet is an electronic communications network that connects computer networks and organizational computer facilities around the world. Almost 40 years ago‚ the US Defence Department first set the stage for the Internet with a network that was called ARPANET. This was a research program that was begun to discover new ways to link different networks together for government and scientific use. What they hoped to develop was a method of communicating information packets among many computers at the
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I. Title Library vs. Internet II. Introduction Students are often unable to distinguish appropriate from inappropriate resources. If the information is not available on the internet‚ it does not exist for them. Librarians and faculty express concern that students do not know how to adequately evaluate the quality of information resources found on the internet. Both web-based and traditional library resources are useful when conducting research. Each have their own particular strengths and
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Professor Kelvie The Internet and Its Effects on People The internet‚ is it making us lazier‚ or is it increasing our productivity throughout our lives. In today’s world‚ we rely heavily on the internet for day to day uses and it has become something of a crutch for humans. From things such as looking up how to get to the nearest Sub-way‚ to ordering and purchasing items online‚ the internet has done nearly everything to make our lives easier. In a way the internet could be making us lazy as people
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Internet DOES make people smarter The internet has been around for a while and everyone knows now that the internet has many qualities and disadvantages but depending on the reason of use of the internet it can be educational also informational with quick and easy access to any topic and this can lead to making people smarter. The reason the internet makes people smarter are its easy accessibility‚ encyclopedia ’s (Wikipedia)‚ and the offers of education and educational videos. The internet has
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watching and playing on computers to creating and finding fun in creation. Whereas in the article “Is The Internet Making Us Stupid?” published on June 16‚ 2008 in New York Times Nicholas Carr’s tells use of internet leads to lose ability for long reading and fall in time span spend on the material. I am not totally agree with K.J Dell’ Antonia and Nicholas Carr’s ideas. I think computer is making us smarter because we can exchange our ideas through one click only all over the globe within few seconds
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To communicate and make new friends indirectly‚ letters used to be the only methods in bygone day and many people are lazy to do so. With the advent of advanced technology on the Internet in recent year‚ the practice of writing a letter seems to take a leap a faith‚ however. The snowballing email-writer and the prevalence of MSN users are the obvious evidences of this drastic change. While we are enjoying the fruit of the technology‚ may we try to stop and think for a while; is it a favor or a trap
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themselves from the internet and all the technologies that come along with it. The Internet is definitely a complex tool‚ a tool that has ultimately changed the world and its population. The entire world is rapidly becoming obsessed with it and dependent on it. Wherever one looks‚ one is bound to see something related with the Internet. The blooming of this 20th century technology has led a lot of people to be critical of it. Although there are a lot of aspects to the Internet‚ this paper will specifically
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