The advent of digital technology has given everybody access to a versatiles of information on the web very cheaply and conviently. Everyone is able to finish their homeworks on their own with the help of Internet and buy anything whatever he or she wants. However, if there are positive effects in improvement of digital technology, there must be some dark side as well. To answer the topic question, which was students are able to learn more effectively via help of Internet, I would strongly disagree with the statement for two main reasons. First, Internet has too much information and second, online lectures are just waste of time.
To begin with, Internet has just too much of information. According to an old proverb, "less is better than too much". It has too much of information that is unnecessary for students to learn effectively. It has advertisements wherever you access a site, even the most praised website, Sparknotes, has advertisements, such as "Check this girl out!". I was reading the summary of "The Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens one day and an advertisement came up, which was about love and dating company. Not only there are a lot of distractions that students must face, there are tremendous amount of information on just single subject. For example, I was searching about Issac Newton in Google for my physics presentation and it gave me thousands of websites that were about Issac Newton. I couldn't find the trustworthy websites. The first pop-up was the Wikipedia, the most useless website ever created, in my opinion, because everybody can access and edit it. As a result, I was one of the students in the physics class who got lower than C grade on the paper. I mean, the very first website suggested by Good can't seriously be Wikipedia. Internet just has too much of information!
Moreover, a lot of people rely on listening to online lectures. Personally, I believe this is just waste of time. When you take your college courses online, you are supposed to finish your homework, take exams, and perform oral presentation. Those cannot be marked correctly if it were conducted online. There are possibilities that you can cheat. For instance, my friend named Billy was taking this Microeconomics course at one of the prestigious universities. Since his professor couldn't check how he was doing in his homeworks or essays precisely, Billy just didn't put his full effort on the course. As a result, he couldn't get the top mark that he wanted and the course was a waste of his 6 month period.
To sum up my points, Internets can be beneficial in some cases when you use it accurately, but in most of the cases, it leads to you to the wrong path and put you in a trap. It is very hard to see which websites have authenticity and credibility. I would recommend to other people to be careful whenver they do something on Internet, especially when using Wiki. |