The
development of the Internet is often compared to the discovery of the first
fire in the primitive age because these events have revolutionized people’s
lives in a better way. With this understanding, I believe that using the
Internet helps students to learn more effectively. This is because there are
many educational contents uploaded on the Internet and Internet enables
students to gain more academic knowledge much faster.
Firstly,
there are various contents for educational purposes in the Internet. The development
of the Internet stimulated the growth of the online lecture market. This is
attributed to the reason that the online lectures not only allow people to educate
themselves at any time no matter the location but also to take lectures which
are not provided in their school helping them to fulfill the academic interest.
Also, some websites specialize in solutions of problems in the university
textbooks. University solutions are relatively expensive for students as the
cheapest one cost over 70 U.S dollars and some solutions are not even involved
in solution books. However, websites, such as ‘chegg.com’ and ‘transtutor.com’
not only deal with over 97 percent of textbooks used in entire universities in
the U.S. but also provides all solutions at a cheaper cost. As we have seen,
these contents not only allow students to supplement and fulfill academic knowledge
without the limitation of time and location but also provide knowledge cheaper.
Secondly,
students can gain more knowledge much faster. Before the development of the
Internet, students had to find information in the library. Once they were at
the library, they had to read countless books to find a fine quality of information. Sometimes the library did not even have the book containing adequate
knowledge, so that students had to move to another library get their desired
information. Such process took long time and discouraging. However, the
development of Internet revolutionized the process of searching information.
For example, students now only have to type certain key words in the search
engine to find accurate information. Also, it is not exaggerated to say that
the Internet is the sea of information. Millions and Billions of data is
updated on the Internet every single second, rendering the Internet the largest
library in the world. In other words, a quality and the amount of knowledge
that students can acquire dramatically increased compared to the past. In this
respect, I believe that the internet can help students to gain more knowledge faster.
To
sum up, I believe that students can learn more effectively with the help of the
Internet for the following reasons: there are various online contents for
education and faster ways to gain more information. Consequently the importance
of my view cannot be underestimated due to the reasons I have mentioned above.