Effects of Computers on Education
Computers are a big factor to education because it is helping teachers, students and parents communicate. Computers can be used if you are doing an assignment at home or if you are being tutored online. Computers can be used to access the internet and the internet can be used to chat about sc
hool, work or any other educational purposes. Chatting is a good way to learn because you can ask questions online on things you do not know. It has been proven that computer-assisted instruction-CAI- produces about 30 percent more learning in 40 percent less time and at 30 percent less cost than conventional classroom instruction. In the 1970's schools started to get a taste of computerized education. The teachers had to go to school to learn the basic steps of using the computer. The computers would help students share information with each other and it also help make writing papers and essays a lot easier and faster. Teachers were now able to assign students to do research papers online. Researching online was a lot easier then going to the library and trying to find the topic you were researching. This enabled people to find information a lot easier and a lot quicker then going to the library. The use of computers will change the method of education from 'instructionalist' to 'constructivist'. When students share the information gained from the internet it allows them to think more creatively and more independently. Some people on the other hand say that computers do not help children improve in the classroom because all they will do is mess around on the computer. People also argue that a computer can not deliver information like a teacher and that computers are just a distraction to students just like video games.Before we know it, technology is going to pass us by. With the invention of the computer and the Internet, the possibilities are endless. Society is changing by leaps and bounds, with no chance of a stopping point in the near future. All this change is dealing with computers and the effects that it will have on the way we live tomorrow. The Internet affects us in every way, most importantly with our social lives, our jobs, and our entertainment. Our social lives are not just communicating with telephones and mail anymore. Going “on-line” is the new way we like to communicate with people. Chat rooms on the Internet are open for people to talk and explore with other people who may live on the other side of the world or the other side of the street. E-Mail is also another popular way to correspond with others. Users can electronically send mail to another person with an on-line mailbox, simply by typing in their message and sending it by the click of a button. Two seconds to send e-mail to someone on the other side of the world is much quicker than a week or more through the ordinary mail. The Internet can also affect our jobs. Computers can calculate and figure out things much quicker than the average person. This process cannot only save time, but money too. Stock trading is now on the Internet, along with banking and any other type of business you could imagine. The world wants thing to be quick and easy. The best answer to that is to have a computer do it for you. In the future, hundreds of millions of jobs will be taken away from honest hard-working employees and will be given to computers. No matter what choices we make, or what plans we change, these outcomes are going to become real. Why would a business pay someone to take phone orders, when a computer can do it in less time and make it both cheaper and easier for the business and the buyer? Computers and the Internet are definitely affecting the way we entertain ourselves. The most basic example is card games. If the computer can deal out cards on a screen with the click of a button, why would anyone want to deal out a deck of cards manually and have to clean them up afterwards? On the Internet, you can gamble with on-line casinos, place bets on a horse race, or even watch movies. People can do all of these activities in the comfort of their own home. No gas money is wasted or time spent driving around to find entertainment so people are happy. The inevitable outcome of this magnificent invention is going to change the world. Society is happy about the way things are changing. Cheaper is better, less time consuming is better. With the choice of having a computer and being on-line, there is almost nothing you cannot do. This remarkable idea of the Internet is going to revolutionize the way we live in the future.
Mischelle Jazzfynne P. Fajardo
Grade 6-Our Lady of Annunciation
Class Number#23
