Computers in the Educational System :: Education Teaching

Computers in the Educational System A little over ten eld ago the world was on the brink of a monumental revolution. The figurer was rapidly becoming more accessible to a wider range of people. sooner the world knew it computers were brought down from a room sized machine that could except be operated by a trained professional to a appargonl box sized machine that just about anybody could operate. Nowadays computers be used everyday of our lives. Computers can also be found in just about every classroom around the world. According to Stephen C. Howell The induction of computer technology into classrooms promises historys most powerful and tangled transformation of the learning process, powerful because of the extraordinary capabilities digital technologies offer, complex because of the graduate(prenominal) level of training necessary to utilize these technologies. This paper will analyse both the extraordinary capabilities of the computer and the necessary trai ning. As the computer roar really begins to takes off people are learning how to use computers at younger and younger ages. Now days the ten year elder in the family can usually run the family computer better thusly the parents can. This is because schools are starting to mandate a computer class as a special course in elementary school. The children love it, and it gives them a great base to build on when the go to high school, and beyond. The progeny one reason for the computer boom was the invention of the internet. The internet makes it potential for people all over the world to exchange thoughts and ideas. Teachers are instantaneously able to harness the powers of both computers and the internet. All around the world teachers are using computers to aid them in there teaching. The internet makes it possible for students to interrogation any topic they can imagine by searching thousands of subroutine library data bases world wide withou t even leaving the classroom. In the in store(predicate) students may be able to log onto an electronic classroom where a teacher is teaching a subject thousands of miles away. This electronic classroom would unite students from all around the world, using a program called video conferencing, so that they could explore the feelings, and opinions of other students there age from different parts of the world.