No Internet In The Classroom

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No Internet in the Classroom Do you use the computer everyday? Do you search the Internet to find some useful information quite often? The answers will mostly be yes. With the development in technology, the Internet becomes a very important part in people’s lives. Especially for college students, most of them use the Internet for written assignments, group projects, class discussions and etc. It is a common phenomenon that students use computers to access Internet during the class time. Yet, the Internet may weaken our learning abilities now. When students getting on the Internet, they do not pay attention to class, do not solve problems by themselves, and even use computer to cheat. Although the Internet is very helpful in many ways, it can also be a distraction for students. So, technology like the Internet should be banned in classroom because it causes low learning efficiency. First, students, obviously, do not pay attention to class when they can use computers during class time. Those students may not concentrate on teachers’ lecture but focus on their computers. For example, the University of Chicago Law School bans Internet access in some classrooms because of they want to provide better education for students and encourage them completely getting involved in class discussions. The class time is the best time for students to learn new knowledge and exchange ideas. In the article “Facing the Facebook”, Michael Bugeja, the professor of the University of Iowa, said that “Some less-drastic measures include clauses in syllabi warning against using Face book or other nonassigned Internet sites during class”(p.90). All the information teachers talked in class are the most important points about that subject. Even if students only missed one main point in class, they would possible spend much more time to learn it out of class. Unfortunately, they may still get

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