E-mail arrives in minutes, and huge files can be copied in seconds. Teachers can use e-mail to perform consultations without expecting to play telephone tag, and students can exchange several volleys with keypals before a surface mail letter would have made a one way trip. Learning On Your Own Like a worldwide personal library, the Net encourages students, teachers, and parents to find and use new information. Internet tools enable anyone to find and retrieve almost instantly new information, data, images, and even software that is personally interesting. Sometimes the material is simply not available except on the Net.
Students also can learn on the Net educational independence and intellectual autonomy.
Because the Net is more current and dynamic than any library could be, students and teachers learn that using the Net can save them time. The Net is color-blind, and does not discriminate. Socially induced prejudices, such as appearance, gender, race, and behaviors can fade away, because students learn that they are judged solely on what they say and how they say it. Hearing-impaired people actually may have an advantage on the Internet, because they are not distracted by outside noises. It's true, class, race, ability, and disability are removed from consideration in Internet communication.