The use of the internet for educational purposes
When educational aspect of the Internet use is considered, it is obvious that students, or people in general, who
look for information can access it easily and with low cost. It is evident that the Internet is a source of enormous
information that anything can quickly and easily be reached. Internet also provides students asynchronous education
where they can reach any kind of information anytime and anywhere.
This widens the world of students as nowadays kids do not like to use libraries or any kinds of real life resources but they can access these places online and benefit from them easily and quickly. Additionally, the Internet can be used as a tool to learn the latest news all around the world as well as getting any kind of information that serves different purposes such as learning more information about a hobby or health. Therefore, it can be said that the Internet is the source of spreading information quickly to a large audience and of going beyond the limitation of time and space.
In general it was clear that the majority of the students believed they can use the Internet as an educational tool. Only a very small amount of participants stated that they were not able to use it for educational purposes, which is very promising for the future.
There were certain areas that students felt comfortable while using the Internet such as the search engines on the Internet, which is easily and efficiently used and preferred by 80% of the participants in this study. Also, they stated that they used social websites to share knowledge and talk about school subjects. They also claimed that they could easily use the Internet to find sources of information, download necessary files and pictures and so on.
The only problematic areas which seemed the participants are not very good at were blogs, wikis and e-learning portals and the reason might be neither students nor teachers could really cope with them efficiently and appropriately. Both groups are not very familiar with these Internet options as well as with the educational journals and database programs. Furthermore, educational journals could be another issue to be considered. As the participants of this study were preparatory school students, they might have not needed to use educational journals in order to be successful in their academic studies or fulfil their academic tasks.
Therefore, it is vital and important to provide opportunities to students to learn these areas which are indispensable tools in today’s academic and social life.
This widens the world of students as nowadays kids do not like to use libraries or any kinds of real life resources but they can access these places online and benefit from them easily and quickly. Additionally, the Internet can be used as a tool to learn the latest news all around the world as well as getting any kind of information that serves different purposes such as learning more information about a hobby or health. Therefore, it can be said that the Internet is the source of spreading information quickly to a large audience and of going beyond the limitation of time and space.
In general it was clear that the majority of the students believed they can use the Internet as an educational tool. Only a very small amount of participants stated that they were not able to use it for educational purposes, which is very promising for the future.
There were certain areas that students felt comfortable while using the Internet such as the search engines on the Internet, which is easily and efficiently used and preferred by 80% of the participants in this study. Also, they stated that they used social websites to share knowledge and talk about school subjects. They also claimed that they could easily use the Internet to find sources of information, download necessary files and pictures and so on.
The only problematic areas which seemed the participants are not very good at were blogs, wikis and e-learning portals and the reason might be neither students nor teachers could really cope with them efficiently and appropriately. Both groups are not very familiar with these Internet options as well as with the educational journals and database programs. Furthermore, educational journals could be another issue to be considered. As the participants of this study were preparatory school students, they might have not needed to use educational journals in order to be successful in their academic studies or fulfil their academic tasks.
Therefore, it is vital and important to provide opportunities to students to learn these areas which are indispensable tools in today’s academic and social life.
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