Internet and Education

The Internet is very important in my education. As stated before I am going to school to become an RN and the internet helps me stay current. There are amazing medical websites out there that keep me informed on the latest research, newest debates , and interactive videos that allow me to view things like medical procedures.

Within the next five years the internet and education can only advance more. I think the number of online classroom's and teaching will increase. Allowing more international interactions and students never having to leave there home to get an education. Now is that for the best who knows. But I think it will give more opportunity and open more doors for people trying to get an education.

The biggest change involving education would be changing how schools teach. With the way curriculum is enforced in the school system there is not much time for students to be educated in alternative ways like the internet (secondary education). I feel if the internet had a bigger influence on education it would bring back some creativity into education. Allowing student to interact with other students around the world and be more involved in worldly events. With the internet if we want to incorporate education into more there needs to be a better filtering system. I don't want my child to be on the internet trying to do his/her school work when a pop-up ad comes up and it's for a porno site. How to keep that from happening is a whole other issue on it's own. Since the internet is not government regulated anything and everything is on there so you also have to take that into consideration.

The first step it would take to connect other nations and people around the world would be education. I know it sounds funny but really. There are countries that have never even heard or seen a computer before much less know what the internet was. So educating and helping under privilege countries would open up so many opportunities for so many people.