Internet and Education

2. The internet could be a very
positive step towards education,
organization and participation in
a meaningful society.
-Noam Chomsky

3. The internet also simply called the
NET, is the largest and farflung
networks system –of all-system.

4. It is not really a network but
loosely organized collection of
about 25,000 networks accessed
by computers in the planet.

5. No one owns the internet.
Has no central headquarters
No cetrally offered services
No comprehensive online index
to tell users what information is
availabe in the system.

6. How is everything coordinated
through the Internet?

7. This is done through a
standardized protocol(or set of
rules for exchanging data called
Transmission Control Protocol
/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP).

8. To gain access to Internet, the
computer must be equipped with
what is called a Server which has
special software (program) that
uses the Internet protocol.

9. The Internet connect not only
commercial industrial, scientific
establishments but all other
sectors including education and
its libraries, campuses, and
computer centers.

10. Getting around the Net

11. The vast sea of information now in
the Internet, including new and
trivia, is overwhelming challenge
to those who wish to navigate it.

12. Every day, the Net user-population
and the available information
continue to grow and new ways
continuously being developed to
tour the Internet.

13. The most attractive way to move
around the Internet is called
browsing.

14. Using a program called a browser, the user can
user can use a mouse to point and click on
screen icons to surf the Internet, particularly
the World Wide Web (the Web),an Internet’s
subset of text, images, sounds are linked
together to allow users to access data
information needed.

15. The future of the Internet seems limitless.
Already its complexity has spawned and
continue to spawn Net sites including new
demand for services to business,
industries, science, government, and even
homes. Many experts predict that the
Internet is destined to become the
centerpiece of all online communication on
that planet and in some future time in the
solar system using interplanetary satellite
communication stations.

16. A view of educational uses of the
internet
Today, even elementary school graders in
progressive countries like the United States
are corresponding via e-mail with pen pals in
all 50 states. They ask probing questions like,
“What is your state’s most serious problems,”
or how much does a pizza cost in your state?

17. This educational activity prodded by their
schools are paying dividends from increasing
the pupil’s interest in Geography to a greater
understanding of how people live in large
cities and other places in the United States or
the world.

18. Educational software materials have also
developed both in sophistication and appeal.
There is now a wider choice from rote
arithmetic or grammar lessons to discovery
and innovation projects. But the real
possibility today is connecting with the world
outside homes, classrooms, and internet
cafes.

19. Today schools are gearing up to take advantage
of internet access, where they can plug into
the library of congress, make virtual visits to
famous museums in the world, write to
celebrities, and even send questions to heads
of state.