INTERNET IN EDUCATION

What is Internet?

We can define the Internet as a "network of networks", ie a network that connects not only computers but interconnected networks of computers together, allowing the exchange of information between them.

A computer network is a set of machines that communicate through a medium (coaxial cable, fiber optics, radio, telephone, etc..) in order to share resources.

 

Internet Sources

The Internet start us back to the year 60. FRAA During wartime, the U.S. military create a system solely with the objective that in the hypothalamus © tico case of a Russian attack could have access to military information n from anywhere in the country.

This network was created in 1969 ³ ³ called ARPANET. In principle, the network had 4 computers distributed among different universities of the country. Two year later,  and had about 40 computers connected.

The philosophy of this network is that each of the computers that make it capable of communicating, as an individual, any other computer on the network.

In 1985 the Internet was already an established technology, but known by few.

In the nineties he introduced the World Wide Web (WWW), which became common.
Internet infrastructure spread across the world to create the modern global network of computers we know tod

Main Features of Internet

Universal. Internet is widely practiced throughout the world.

Easy to use. No need to know to use the Internet computer.

Varied. On the Internet you can find almost anything.

Economic. On the Internet, saving time and money is awesome.

Useful. Have lots of information and services readily accessible.

Some things we can do on the Internet

See information.
Utilities query.
Queries to newspapers and magazines.
Listening to the radio and watching videos.
Exchange information.
Mobile messaging.
Talk to other people.
Videoconferencing.
Buy products and services.
Training.
Download files.

Internet Services

E-mail

Es un servicio de correo electrónico por medio del cual cualquier usuario podrá enviar y recibir mensajes a través de la red.

Email addresses are easily identified and are composed of three parts: the name of the box, the ID and server name, something like this:

WWW (World Wide Web)
Along with the E-mail are the two most widely used Internet services. This service allows you to connect to a remote computer and access the information it gives you, whether text, images, sounds or programs.

It is a system of hypertext documents linked and accessible over the Internet.
With a web browser, a user views web sites consisting of web pages that can contain text, images, videos or other multimedia content and navigate through them using hyperlinks.

Browsers

Internet in Education

There is a large amount and variety of information available online. Comes in different forms: text, pictures, lots of video, sound files, multimedia documents and programs.

You have to be careful and not think that giving students information is the same as giving them knowledge.

Knowledge is the result of individual processing of information. Knowledge is private while the information is public. Then knowledge can not be communicated, you can only share the information.

Internet as a tool

Every day schools are connected to the Internet (see Web66 URL: http://web66.coled.umn.edu/schools.htm contains a list of over 3.500 schools around the world with presence in the WWW). Teachers and students use this connection to the world in various ways.

First, Internet is an inexhaustible source of information and data firsthand. As originally scientific network, you can find lots of useful information for classes, from the latest arrivals at Earth images from weather satellites to historical documents, etc. We can find materials for any educational level prepared by other teachers. It is also a tremendous source of educational software, much of which is free.

Using the Internet for distance education

One of the more obvious educational applications of Internet distance education. Traditional media (print and mass media) are unidirectional, liabilities and provide a minimal interaction between students and teachers and among students themselves.

Alleviate feelings of isolation and lack of a cooperative learning environment among peers are therefore key objectives that should contribute to new technologies.

The key concept is interaction. Interaction is subsumed into a new concept: the virtual classroom, a teaching / learning system based on a computer-mediated communication, a symbolic space in which the interaction occurs among students.