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School and the Internet

Posted by Stacy on Monday, January 12, 2009 8:33 AM

The internet has become necessary for college (well high school and even grade school too) now. I talked to my dad one day and he was telling me how it's crazy to see how many assignments my sister has to do (she's nine years old) on the internet or type up papers or projects on the computer when he was in school and didn't even have these things to use.

So many of my assignments are done online using the internet, blackboard, or just research and submitting homework. For my chemistry and biology classes we have weekly things due through the internet. For one of my chemistry classes we had to do research using websites with drug reviews and a meds reviews site. We had to look into certain drugs (for our paper) and find ratings and what people who had used them said about side effects and so on.

For another project I had for finance I had to make a plan for ten years after I graduated. I had to decide what I would be doing with my life and then look online at salaries and find a home through an online realtor in the city I thought I would be in (I don't even know where I'm living next year let alone 12 years from now). Then we also had to go on and look into cars and find mortgage payment and car payment estimates and quotes. Then after we had found out all of the information (and a lot of other stuff as well) we had to make a budget using an online calculator and website and the whole project was submitted electronically online.

Many of my assignments for my classes are submitted through a third party website or through the schools grade book or blackboard website. We email teachers and classmates questions and to form study groups or get notes. I use the internet to keep in touch with friends and email my dad like daily. I also use it to check my grades and search for cheaper books online (my books if I buy them in the bookstore are over a thousand dollars) so if I look online I am able to find much better deals and then at the end of the semester I can try to sell them online as well to get more (or anything at all even ha).

Although our parents didn't even have internet we (and they) use it for almost everything, daily. Who knows what will be out by the time our kids get to college.