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First of all, it is widely recognized that World Wide Web contains a large quantity of unauthentic and unreliable source of information. With the popularity of technology accompanied by internet in modern world, the increasing number of people accessing internet can freely share materials via websites, blobs, etc. The problem is not all of them are specialists or professionals, or they share the one’s academic experience. Many internet users just post their own experience or understanding which is not based on dependable foundation.
Moreover, vandals together with naughty individuals often deliberately upload wrong materials or try to modify true available information for their certain purposes. Unfortunately, most web administrators are not normally able to control such a huge number of posts from users. Wisped is a typical example, through the comparison between scientific articles and those in Encyclopedia Britannic considered as the most scholarly of encyclopedias scientists found that both references contained four serious errors among the 42 articles analyzed by experts (the Nature, 2005).
This, inevitably, leads to the wide range but unreliable knowledge available on World Wide Web. That students are not experienced enough to identify the dependable materials potentially engages them in inadequate source of information while researching on World Wide Web to complete their assignment. In addition to information incompetence, it is the availability of knowledge on World Wide Web that destroys students’ creativity. Obviously, the vast quantity of accessible research as well as materials via internet enables everyone to use them directly without any strict requirements, which is absolutely convenient and time-saving.
In fact, the nonviolence also poses another major problem which is its effects on users’ laziness and ordinary. World Wide Web is said to cause increasing laziness and reduced creativity among students, since nowadays, the majority Of them depend heavily on internet when doing homework or sort of thing. Hardly do students carry a survey or manage to complete a difficult task themselves, in stead, they use World Wide Web as a prioritize tool thanks to its effectiveness together with much convenience. Sometimes, with only several copy-paste clicks a student can quickly finish an assignment.
Consequently, either can they improve ordinary nor they gain experience through their tasks, which is certainly not the aim of their teachers. For instance, 88% teachers agreed and 40% strongly agreed that today students’ cognitive skill was inferior to that of the ones in the past according to a survey carried by Kristin Purcell and her accompanies (2012). Some may argue that World Wide Web serves as the fastest tool in researching information, which helps its users save a large amount of time. It is no doubts true; however, students are, in facts, often given an adequate time amount to do their assignment.
Because through assignments, teachers aim at students’ profoundly absorb knowledge of what they are supposed to study not the positive results from available sources on the Internet. More importantly, it is much more beneficial when students invest time as well as their own ability in survey or information study, thereby improving creativity and experience. In addition, if everyone keeps depending On available surveys or materials, there will be an increasingly limited number the up-to-date ones. This may cause the stagnancy in education, causing further impact on the world’s evolution.