The Use Of The Internet By School-Age Children

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Maria Fátima Arruda Professor Holly EC2 SP08 April 26, 2008 The use of the Internet by school-age children According to the Dictionary of Computer and Internet terms, Internet is define is a public, cooperative, and selfsustaining facility accessible to hundreds of millions of people worldwide. It was conceptualized by the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) of the U.S. government in 1969 and was first known as the ARPANET. The main propose of that was to create a network that would allow users of a research computer at one university to be able to communicate to a research computers at other universities. Nowadays, for many users the Internet has become part of people’s live. More recently, the use of the Internet has become part of people’s environment. People go online to shop, to find jobs, to research, to get a degree, and in some cases only to have fun. Moreover, this great research tool has also become part of children’s lives. Children are going online to research in order to complete their school’s assignments and also to enjoy. There are also other activities were the use of Internet is involved such as educational programs, games, electronic mail, as well Arruda 2 as the use of instant messaging. Besides that, most schools in the U.S are offering Internet access for research. The Internet is an example of great resource of information that children can use to find explanation about any topic, take courses, meet friends, play games and have another kind of educational activities. To understand better how Internet is important, let’s have one situation where one child has to research an important assignment. Where this child would go to find the information he needed? He might go to his school library, local library in his town, go over encyclopedias at home. Nevertheless, in another situation he could have had all the in formations that

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