Positive influence of Internet on students
Positive influence of Internet on students
D. Alfaro Alfredo Holguin
Sometimes I thought how my life would have been in college student (eighty) with the availability of all current technological objects? College life is still the same, because the questions What topic have to learn that skill must achieve to be better than other professional? How can I get to increase my chances of having a better quality of life? remains valid.
Today's students have a great ally to go much further than I had intended at the time. Itself have a natural advantage, as they are digital natives, because when they were born in the nineties, the internet existed, also cell phones, remote controls and video games, cable television and video player, computers Portable, Windows 95, hypertext, URL, e-mail and not as much thing. For today's students, these elements are part of their daily lives as usual, are part of their social relationships, are part of how they communicate, how they take information, how they fall in love, what what else? , we should preguntárselos them.
The improvement in increasing communication speeds, quality and capacity has allowed the same environment as reduced to a young student faced in the eighties is now completely different, overwhelming. This also happens with the information they can access, deposits of knowledge and resources tend to be infinite. If we consider that the development of humanity rests in the previous generation, is based on their knowledge, then this would imply that the next generation will move much faster than its equivalent in the eighties and that this improvement will be increasingly faster .
Today's students have dreams like any boy his age, and has been before now and will remain so after. But your dreams may be more spectacular, more stunning, every time, because they have a great opportunity to further my generation had not.
The birth and death will always be there, but how to live between those two points will never be the same, the internet and all its technological environment marked points of no return.
The use of this technological tool to be taught, the student should be made to discover which can be useful for your purposes to be a professional, to improve their standards, their reflection, their opinions, their knowledge and application, you must have a guide who , even a digital immigrant, agrees to carry forward the student supported by the new technologies of communication and information. The student explores the new, as anyone would, as we did before with a slide rule or a pocket calculator, with Fortran and punch cards program, but must be induced to use the new resources, find utility that has meaning and importance making, and to achieve his own autonomy link with the new way to grow, with the new way of living.