Computers In Education :: Technology

Computers Value in EducationWhat is an education? Education is be as the knowledge or skill obtained or developed by a retarding process or an instructive or enlightening attend (Dictionary 1).It says that its the knowledge obtained, but does it matter where this knowledge is obtained? We now use computers in our society, which allow us to do many a(prenominal) things. However, in todays society, children go through their full education using the computer. There is now cyber schooling, where a child no longer attends school but learns at home in front of their computer. Should this, however, be how students learn and become educated? We, as Americans, educate our children by putting them through age of schooling. A child is suggested to go through 13 years of schooling. After graduating high school, it is greatly recommended to go further onto college to become more educated in certain aras. There are thousands of schools throughout America, however. Therefore, the studen ts at the many schools will learn different things. We gain our knowledge through many resources during these years of learning. Teachers, other students, computers, and much more are ways we attain our education. Computers are a dynamic addition to education, and could be considered to be almost the like a school in itself. Computers see advanced our knowledge greatly since we have introduced them into our society, and started to use them in our everyday lives. This being the reason we now use them greatly in schooling.Computers in schooling are used for many things. Computers change students to share learning with others. Computers can greatly enhance the writing process of a student. It allows them to change things easily, cut things out of writing and move it to different places, add pictures, and many other attributes to writing. Computers should be compared to encyclopedias, libraries, newspapers, television and any other information tools used in the classroom. Comput er knowledge does not however, replace any of the work area skills. However, the spelling ability of a computer is much greater than most humans ability. It has almost a built in dictionary which is not like a typical human. Students need to learn to do research on the Internet, but they also need to learn to research books. Students also need to learn to use a spellchecker, but they also need to learn to spell correctly and proofread their work without a computerized grammar checker.