Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? with the help of technology, students nowadays can learn more information and learn it more quickly. |
With the continuous advent of new technology, such as TV and Internet, students might have benefited from it because of its vast amount of information. However, the vast amount of info rather have made them take more time to learn more information. It is because they must spend time to find needed info, and have risk of learning wrong information.
Internet brought students great amount of information. It also brought them another task to do; they should find out what we really need among those vast info. This seems an easy task because typing a keyword in the search engine rules out irrelevant info. However, to find out what they really need, time must be spent. For example, One time, I got an assignment to write about the way to get the job I wanted. I decided to use Google which has more than thousands of millions of webpages. I typed a word "pilot" on the site. Consequently, the result has come out to a few hundreds of webpages and I had to read the pages and find what I really needed. It took about 2 or 3 hours to get the data I needed. It was totally a waste of time.
In addition to the time-consuming task, students also take risk of learning wrong info. Database on the internet is based on the information in printed media and human transferred those info to the database. In this process, someone may have made a mistake. In my class, students got an homework to search European countries' populations. I and my friends compared each other's tasks and found that one of my fellows got wrong number. It was because of manager of the website made a mistake. He could have lived with the wrong info forever if we didn't correct him. In this case, internet gave a wrong information that is quite important when learning about someting.
Internet surely brought us benefit of vast info. However, it also brought disadvantage; we should spend time to find out the essential info; and we have risk of getting incorrect info. I found that new technology made us not to learn quickly but to spend more time in learning. To learn quickly, we must have skills in searching info and should not depend on the internet entirely. |