Internet A Boon For Schools

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Students with the access to World Wide Web can enrich their learning experience. Internet offers myriad of options to plunge into the sea of knowledge. They can create

network with other students of their school, with students of other schools not only in their country but also worldwide. Students must be provided internet exposure

during their early age as it will create curiosity in them for it and also it will train their mind to take maximum benefits of it.

Apart form the students; Internet for schools gives school administration an opportunity to enhance

the administrative efficiency and effectiveness. Teachers, school staff and head of schools must utilise the services of internet for their day to day work like,

salary management, personal records, new training techniques etc. Further, internet for school is must to create an interface between teachers and parents. Parents can

have a direct access to teacher through internet so that they can actively take part in the overall development of their child. Teachers ...
... can also provide an up-to-date

account of student’s progress in a hassle free manner.

There is one section of school where internet can do wonders and that is library. Internet for libraries is sine quo none for ultimate learning experience. Suppose

there is library without internet connection and a student is looking for a book which the library do have but it has an old edition, without internet that student

have to compromise with old book, if the library had a internet then that student would able to access new version of the book and that too with one click. Not only

book students can read variety thing from different sources.

Internet for libraries is like a tool in the hands of librarian and library science, which is about the management of library content in a useful manner. Librarian

with the help of internet can order new books, magazines, journals etc. in just no time and which will reduce the running cost of library. Internet also allows him or

her to compare different publisher’s offer while sitting in the library only which was not possible before.

Thus, internet for schools and libraries is catalyst for enriched learning and enhanced efficiency. Schools have to make sure that each and every student have access

to internet and towards this end appropriate computer student ratio must be maintain But schools must also take care of the fact that they must upgrade their

technology in order to take maximum advantage of information technology revolution.