It's great for education, but requires a tolerance for advertisements. I see this as evidence of ICT helping students learn. As to helping teachers learn ways to incorporate ICT into the curriculum, Mr. Hepburn says the key to bridging the technological divide is showing educators how information technology can complement their instructional goals for a course. I believe the most effective professional development will begin with this instructional context and develop technical skills only after the need for those skills becomes obvious. In terms of instructional goals, information technology is helping alter the traditional relationship between teachers and students by providing pupils with the tools for independent study.
Children can contact experts beyond the classroom with questions for their research.
If ICT is used to put such a powerful tool in the hands of children, then we will begin to see major changes in what we believe children are capable of. The impact of this has the potential to profoundly change education. She says while the credibility of information culled from the Internet is an important question, it extends beyond the Web. The use of online research methods opens up questions of what is reliable. The educational effect of ICT, especially the Internet, is just beginning to be understood, but it promises to be huge.