Inequality is observed as students who arrive to classes with previous electronic communications experience demonstrate confidence, and other students who do not have experience are likely to be less confident. Those students who own computers and modems have the necessary equipment to access the WWW any hour without wait. Those that also have printing capabilities are further advantaged. No one shows me how to use this stuff. WWW documents tend to print slowly due to incorporated graphics.
Some computer labs limit the number of pages students can print.
As well students who own their own equipment can personalize their browser and be sure that the title of each document and the URL is printed on each page. Ethical models of use of internet technologies. The availability of electronic publications and the ease of downloading techniques facilitated by graphical browsers has created still another roadblock toward student success. As students develop the skills necessary to effectively search the web they will discover student term papers are available. The ease with which sections of papers, as well as whole thesis, can be copied and pasted into a new document leads to plagiarism as students attempt to pass these copies as their own work.