ve also allowed many mathematical equations and other formulas to be completed extremely quickly. Some people might not realize that a calculator is actually a computer. Could one imagine not being able to use a calculator for certain math problems? Some applications we would still be working on! The Internet is another tool people have started to use for education. Undoubtedly, this is probably the most important tool that has changed education. Labeled the Information Superhighway one can understand this. It has allowed people from all over the world to share their knowledge and give anyone access to it for an extremely low cost. One can even access the Library of Congress and look at any book in the world (Horowitz 39). People can take part in online lectures given by professors. If a person has a research project on lets say, Cancer. All they would need to do is search for that on a search engine such as, Yahoo. Then they would have more information on the subject than they could even imagine. Also, there are certain sites where people can get online and go to a homework help site. Here kids can e-mail problems to the site. Then they will respond with hints to it and eventually the answer. One site is www.homeworkhelp.com (Stross 66). A final effect is how it is somewhat necessary for people to become user friendly with the computer. People can argue that they might not ever need to use a computer or learn how. Yes, there are those people who are not ever going to be into the technological age. These people are just limiting themselves on what Bill Gates says is, a technological era (Maney 50). On commercials one heres the phrase, What type of computer skills do you have. People are being constantly rejected for jobs from those Fortune 500 companies like Microsoft and Intel. This has caused people to partake in courses offered in computers and take typing classes. The computer skills are a needed ...
