available for use that provide health information to anyone searching for it. The importance of knowing what is trustworthy cannot be underestimated for the safety of information recipients (National Cancer Institute, 2015). The content of the Internet is unregulated so confidence level in the content should be assessed and the content reliability questioned (National Network of Libraries of Medicine, 2016; UCSF, 2016)? What is it that makes a website ‘good’? How do you assess these resources…
learning through the help of modern technology. On the contrary, undergraduates use the Internet as a means to bolster their education. Savvy technology has helped ease the life of twenty-first century students. The Internet is helpful because it acts as a virtual library for research, enhances relationships between professors and students, and also provides services on how to study. Since the discovery of the Internet it has become increasingly easy to search for information on topics students…
Today’s generations lives and learns with the use of complex technology than those of the previous generations. Technology is said to be used in the means of improving the education system, while others say technology is affecting the education system negatively. For example, smart phones are only to be used in class for educational purposes such as researching, but many students not only use their phones for educational purposes, but they use them for socializing with friends, watching videos,…
Technological development has brought more opportunities in education, in particular through online. Online learning (e-Learning) can be defined as “learning utilizing electronic technologies to access educational curriculum outside of a traditional classroom” (“What Is ELearning?”). Jeff Seaman, the Co-Director of the Babson Survey Research Group, said, “The rate of growth in online enrollments remains extremely robust, even as overall higher education enrollments have shown a decline” (“Babson…
The education profession aims to teach concepts and skills to individuals in order to promote critical thinking and improve problem-solving abilities. For many years, most instruction focused on teachers and students in a lecture-based, traditional classroom environment. The rapid evolution of technological advances heavily influenced the realm of education. In many learning environments, technology became the prime tool in creating and implementing curriculum. While innovative, many factors…
the way they think and mostly their lives. The internet is an essential resource in which you are informed of the latest news or stay connected to your love ones. Now children have a great impact in their use that gradually has expanded during the years. It is now common for children to use their devices to use the internet, this includes for school purposes or for personal use. Most agree that the internet plays an important role in children 's education but it can also bring negative outcomes.…
The Impact of the Internet on Human Intelligence As time flies by, the development of the Internet has increased exponentially, but it is also hurling humanity into an abyss of technological addiction, causing major changes in society. The controversy on this topic is that since the Internet has improved in such drastic rates, does it have a negative or positive impact on human intelligence? The Internet has influenced people in many ways— it has caused various concentration issues, intellectual…
THE IMPACT OF SOCIAL MEDIA Social media is a web-based technology to facilitate social interaction of its users can communicate, sharing, send messages such as a text messages, pictures, and videos. Social media is growing rapidly and becoming a vital part of everyday life, because of the latest technological revolution. Examples of social media that most people use are line, whatsapp, intagram, facebook, twitter, BBM, etc. Social media has positive effect and negative effect. However, more…
The creation of the Internet and social media has permanently changed how people interact with one another. Millions of people log on to the internet daily for the purpose of interaction. Furthermore, according to Nils Smith, social media is now the most popular activity on the Internet. This twenty-first century phenomenon provides a great opportunity for churches to capitalize on this innovative technology, using it as a ministry tool for evangelism. While thousands of people use social…
Abstract: Education is a lifelong learning process. Education is the backbone of society. In common parlance education is any act or experience that has a formative effect on the mind, character or physical ability of an individual. In this modern era technology has changed the way of teaching learning process. Teaching and learning process has now become more flexible and easily accessible from anywhere and anytime irrespective of location and time and all this is possible because of Mobiles…