▶ Your Answer : A variety of opinions may exist over the argument that with the use of the internet, students can learn more effectively, since there are a lot of imofrmation and it is very convenient to search information in the internet as well. As far as I am concerned, I completely disagree with the aforementioned statement. The following two ideas can be valid evidences to back up my opinion. First, it is easy to do not study but other things such as games and social medias, and there are too many information to find accurate information. The first reason for my opinion that can be seen by every person is that there are too many funny things to concentrate on studying. As usually students do not like to study and it is easy to access to games and social medias, the internet will disturb student's school work. I will give my personal experience as an example. When I was in second grade of high school, my parents bought me a computer for my study. First time, I really tried my best to study and not to play other things. However, before long I found that I covertly play games, even I could not focus on my study when I did not play games since I wanted to play games. Finally, I throw my computer away and fortunately my grades increased again. Another equally important reason is, that it is hard for students to discriminate true information among numerous information as students have the low ability of discrimination. There was a poll conducted by Gallup, with 300 company employees as respondents. The purpose of the survey was to understand the consensus view whether when they were students, they could discern real information or not. An overwhlming 80% of respondents had responded that they could not discern true information since they had low ability to discriminate information. To sum up, there are too many things that make students not to concentrate on study and it is hard for students to discern information. Looking at all the statements above, there are many reasons to be considered, but at the end of the day, I think the internet is not helpful for students when they study. |