Lesson 16: The Internet and Education

Ganancial, Estela L. BSEd General Science 4

MW 3:00-5:00 PM

Educational Technology 2

Lesson 16: The Internet and Education

Content

The internet, simply called the Net, is the largest and far-flung network system-of-all-system. It is not really a network but a loosely organized collection of about 25,000 networks accessed by computers on the planet.

How is everything coordinated through the internet? 
It is done through a standardized protocol (or set of rules for exchanging data) called Transmission Control Protocol/ Internet Protocol (TCP/IP). By gaining access to Internet, the computer should have server which has special software (program) that uses the Internet Protocol. The internet was actually developed and still subsidized by USA for some specific purposes.

The most attractive way to move around the Internet is called browsing. Using a program called a browser (ex. Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, MSN, and Internet Explorer), the user can use a mouse to point and click on screen icons to surf the Internet, particularly the World Wide Web (WWW), an Internet’s subset of texts, images and sounds are linked together to allow users to access data or information needed.

A view of Educational uses of Internet 
Nowadays, elementary school graders from progressive countries like USA correspond via e-mail with pen pals in all 50 states. This innovating activity increases the pupils’ interest to particular subjects.

Educational software materials have also developed both in sophistication and appeal. Students can interact not just in the four walls of the classroom but beyond it. Today, schools take advantage on the internet access wherein there is interaction to the community and to other countries for gathering more information useful in their learning process.

Experience

            The internet has contributed a lot on my studies especially during my college days. Every now and then, most of my reports, assignments, projects, and other requirements make me browse the internet to retrieve useful information and references for such activities. This is actually my second option aside from scanning the books in the library. In my Educational Technology 1, we’ve experienced a virtual interaction through Edmodo, a virtual classroom wherein our assignments and projects were posted there. But Edmodo can’t work without an access to the Internet. In our Ecology subject, our instructor gave us her e-mail address which was intended for student purposes only. She will send readings in PDF form related to our lessons in Ecology in that e-mail add then we are the ones who will download it to secure a copy for advance reading as what she requires always. Still this approach was using internet again.

Reflection

Truly, internet offers us a lot of benefits. The internet is not just giving us entertainment such as the way we interact through social media like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Youtube but also internet helps us for some educational purposes. Through internet, we can experience online interaction to other countries for exchanging ideas relevant to our lessons. I may say this because for me the internet is very advantageous tool in our learning process.

Application

            As a future science teacher, it is important to consider the benefit of internet in connection to the science curriculum. I will encourage my future students to browse the internet only for educational purposes. I’ll let them orient first about the nature of internet: its advantages and disadvantages, so that students will be aware of what they are doing while surfing on the net for digging up information. In internet, there are more updated data that can be useful in learning the concepts in science. This favors their interests and needs as they explore science through the world of technology with the help of internet. Learning science will be more advance and sophisticated in appeal.