Nowadays,
within last generations, there are few people that do not know how to use a
computer to write and read a document, see the news, play computer games or to communicate through
e-mails, Facebook or msn. Kids, adolescents and
adults use the computer for different
purposes. Who
have not seen a Little kid watching cartoons in YouTube?
Most
of the young people and adults know how to look for information through web
browsers and they also use Facebook and msn to communicate with their contacts.
Computers
are present in homes, companies and institutions of all kinds, it is part of
our daily life, wherever we. Such is its importance and presence that it has
become a need to most people, especially among young ones, students and people
who work in offices in general.
¿How
internet has changed our life? - internet is nowadays almost a need related to
quick access to information and communication with others, which in front of a
computer with internet access, can be satisfied almost immediately .it is great
to be able of remove any doubt related to a subject in which a don’t have any
knowledge about it at one moment and in the next five minutes stop being
ignorant about this subject, thanks to a simple search in Google. There are
even new words, for example: googling, which is the word included in our modern
lexicon to describe the action of looking for something in Google. I can write
any word of what i need o i want to know
and after a “magic” enter i get a wide list of pages with information
related to that only word that initiated the search. It’s simply amagazing.
If
i want to get in touch with somebody, through an e-mail i can inform her/him
what i want, being this a more formal mean that can be used in work or study
areas .In higher education most of the information, whether documents for the
class, supporting documents, e-mails from teachers, grades, messages through
internet and even the registration process is through this mean. What benefits
brings the internet? : A fast communication, it saves time and money on
transport, which allows giving that time in other activities.
In
terms of social life internet lets to have many contacts available in msn, Facebook
and other applications. We can interact, chat, talk and even see our friends or
to know other people who may become friends or not. Most of young people and
also adults are always in touch with their friends or family, which may be
geographically close or far, in any city of this country or in some other
continent. The romantic letter and telegram are part of the past. Is somebody
who keeps using them? Maybe, but there is no doubt that the modern ways to
communicate nowadays have simply “magic” (or a magic style)
A
couple years ago we didn’t see the internet as a part of our normal life.
What
new needs will appear with the development of new technologies?
I agree that one key affordance of computers and in particular of the internet is to provide users with a wealth of information and being a click away. However, what worries me, is the use that students nowadays make of these technologies. I wonder how many of you use technology at its full potential for learning and not just for entertainment or to feel part of a cyber community?
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