Thursday 24 January 2013

How does the internet affect my life as a student?


Actually, internet affect mostly positive for my study life as an information technology student. As an IT student, I will not be able to study without using internet because there are a lot of things to be learnt from internet. The thing is that even I have got good lecturers for my career, they cannot be able to teach us everything that they know because of the time matter and the students, themselves, they need to do self-study a lot. Therefore, internet is the easiest and the most useful source for the students like me to go further for the study. But, sometimes, using internet consumes a lot of my personal time and it can also harm for my health especially my eyes. Once I sit in front of my laptop, it takes at least 3 hours for one time. So, when I check around the social sites and other interesting things from the internet, I was totally lost in it and forgot to go back to my study. So, it can sometimes affect negatively as a study life. As the saying goes, “Too much is good for nothing”.  But generally, it helps me a lot for my study and even for pleasure time.


Wednesday 23 January 2013

Vision of one laptop per child


If we want to talk about the vision of one laptop per child, there can have absolutely two sides; good and bad. If the children are using the laptop for the good aim, such as educational purposes or to gain new knowledge, then one laptop per child is a great idea. I am experiencing that having a laptop is very useful for our educational processes such as it can save the important personal data, it can find a lot of information that I need in a short time, I can easily communicate with my schoolmates and so so on. Therefore, I cannot deny that one laptop per child is not a good idea. But, here in the child means at most high school level. It means that they are too young to control by themselves. Then it can lead the children to the wrong ways. For examples, almost all of the child like to play computer games, may be they will check the porn websites in teenage time, they can be over using social sites and so on. They may be using laptop in negative ways rather than the educational purposes because they are still young to control by their own. I think, sometimes, the children need to experience with the difficulties in their study without using laptop and in the childhood, we have to learn from the real world, not from the google. So, as to conclude, even in my childhood, we studied without laptop and our past was  good, so, if it is not so important to use laptop, I personally suggest not to rely on the laptop.


How has the development of information technology influenced the common traditions of a society?

Nowadays, technology becomes one of the vital needs in the lives of human across the globe. These technologies show up  many forms such as personal computers, smart phones, the internet, web and mobile phone applications, digital assistants, and cloud computing. In fact the list is growing constantly and new forms of these technologies are working their way into every aspect of daily life. ICTs have put our world finally in our own hands. But in somehow, we can say that these technologies are the major propellants of the developing global culture. The common traditions of a society were totally influenced in various kinds of situations by the development of information technology. People become very depend on the technology in everywhere and their tradition values or own abilities were replaced by the increasing of technologies. For examples, the ways of thinking style, the education system, their daily activities, and moreover, we can say that technology shape every aspect of our lives. Even social attitudes have changed with the effect that citizens of a society now expect the various elements of that society to be better informed than previously. They also expect to be able to access more information about a specific product, service or organization so that they can make informed decisions with regard to their interactions with that entity. As everything has its good or bad sides, therefore the development of information technology also has both sides. The technology is developing day by day to help the people lives by making the works easier and there is only one thing that we have to maintain some of our important traditions in our society not to be replaced by new developments.