Internet, Good Or Bad For School Grades ?

[jigSAW]

Just a thought! while going through articles, I dug up the following issue, and would like to share it here

 "The day I took Internet connection for my son reading in class seven, I became mentally prepared that I will lose control from over him to a great extent. My assumption was right. Already six months have passed, and my son has been a late riser. He goes to bed late at night chatting and browsing various sites, and it is I who have to take all the pains of waking him up for school that starts at 8AM. Now I am very much confused whether I should have given him net connection," commented Nahid Sultana, a resident of Dhannondi area.
Like Nahid Sultana, today many guardians are at a dilemma whether they should allow their children to use Internet at home. They are aware that Internet can be a good source of managing different learning materials and it can also help them grow fit for surviving in the competitive world, at the same time they are worried about the negative consequences of using Internet by their young children who are very much receptive to harmful sites, also their habit of chatting with known or unknown ones for a long time.
"My son convinced me the sites like google are very helpful for the clarification of different concepts. So I arranged net connection for him, and now I see he is more interested about chatting and browsing instead of taking help from instructive sites like google. That really disappoints me," said one P K Saha, a confused guardian who shifted his family from Narayangaj to Dhaka only to educate his children and provide them with a better education.
The students, on the other hand, do not agree with their parents. They say that Internet has made their studies much easier. " I can easily go to google search engine for the definition of any science concept and I get hundreds of materials which can readily help me prepare any homework said Yawar, son of Ms. Nahid of Dhanmondi area.
" I know my father has a high expectation about me. He is also right I sometimes waste time in chatting or browsing at some games site. But I also want to say I can talk about classes, homeworks, also the sites like google are really helpful to write essays or prepare assignments. I cannot think of my home where there won't be any net connection" said Joy, the yongest son of P K Saha.
Teachers are not sure whether to suggest to their guardians about giving net connection to their sons. " We are confused, we know Internet can be a good source of developing knowledge, but at the same time it can also lead them to bad path. So we want restricted use of net at home" said Aminul Haq , who is a freelance English teacher in Dhanmondi.
"They can chat since this gives them a recreational pleasure", said Professor Iftekhar Ghani Chowdhury, director of Institute of Institute of Business Administration of Dhaka University. He also said that students can learn about a book or a publication that might be of use to them from the net. Use of Internet is very much necessary for those who want to be business leaders, prof Ghani opined. But at the same time he alerts saying that net connectivity is like virus, the misuse of it may spread like anything in our society.
To ensure restricted use of net at home, many guardians prefer to take their personal computer at the drawing room and not in the living room of their kids so that they can monitor what exactly their children are doing with the net.
"You cannot stop today's children to use net. What you can do is motivate them to use it in a proper way," said Rasel Ahmed Chowdhury, a guardian whose daughter is a student of class six. "I always keep an eagle eye on my daughter's using net. Whenever she is browsing and if I am outside home, I phone her and ask her what site she is browsing," he thinks it is the duty of various Internet service providers to restrict different adult sites.
Teachers are increasingly aware of use of chat language in the scripts. Today many students write '&' for and, 'u' for you-these are really disturbing. These are all the results of using yahoo or MSN messenger. This practice must be stopped," said Tariq Khan, a language teacher.
Internet is also hampering creativity of our students. Instead of making something on their own, they take help from the net. " I told them to write on My Mother and one of my students just copied an essay collected from young corner page of a daily. This is really frustrating," commented Jahangir Alam, a language teacher at a prominent Bangla medium school.
Plagiarism is a great sin and students tend to forget it when they copy things from the net. Guardians are sometimes helpless about this. " Since I am a working mother and feel tired at the end of the day it is not possible to supervise whether my son is copying from net or writing himself," said Asma Banu, a guardian from Rampura.
Many guardians are happy about the net connection at their home for their kids. "My daughters are in touch with her cousins in Canada, USA at a very low cost, my telephone bill has reduced to a drastic rate and that really gives me a good feeling."
Many guardians feel the need of net habit when they think of higher studies for their children. " I gave my daughter complete freedom to use the net and she chose her university in UK, contacted there and eventually got admitted. My burden was reduced to a great extent since she could chose her own university from the net." said Anjum Shakil, a happy guardian from Uttara.

(courtesy: Financial Express)


Please, we all have freedom of speech and ought to express our own views. My posting it in Debate Zone is basically for not only taking a side but also pointing out the constructive solution to this problem.

[Severus]

if schools actually urge students use internet to do class research, project , homeworks , assignments then it is ofcourse good. But it also makes easy to copy eachother's work, and in bangladeshi standard most of the students would copy paste eachothers work. I dont think bangladeshi kids look for anything over the net expect porn and game cheats.

so it is at the moment bad effect

[Ayman-Subah]

Well ill speak from experience...
Yes dey shud be allowed to go on net to do research n things for der skool work...but i think parents shud take responsibility n make sure to chek (if der kids are too young) wat dey are lukin up on net...
Internet can be a very safe place if used wisely...(:P)...wit lil kids u cant blame dem...becoz dey still dono wats gud n bad....(i sound like a granny!!!...)

[blue_jay5723]

It depends on the person who is using it. For example: I use the internet all the time but it has never affected my marks. But not everyone's the same. I think that internet makes life a whole lot easier unless you are planning on using it for something bad.

[.HellzPori.]

hmm...
well thrz a solution to everythin....
internet iz very addictive for everyone..but tht duznt mean tht we shud stop usin it...it helpz us in a lot of wayz...like mentioned by Shuvo bhaiz post....it helpz u keep in touch wid relativez nd frndz half way across da world...it keepz u aware of da thingz tht r goin on around u....for example: da newz sitezz...
but but but....thrz bad consequencez of da internet too....hmm....porn sitez etc etc....trust me....dis onli happenz....if da kid iz left alone in a room wid his computer......jus put da computer in a livin room space.....where everyonez thr most of da time....solvez a lot of prblemzz....
plagirism..(i don think i spelt it rit)...but newayzz...i study in canada (so im not quite sure wht happenz abt plagirizin in dhaka)...nd da thing iz here if u plagirize....ur given a mark of zero......as simple as tht....whn u go to uni..u mite even b suspended for plagirizing.....so ya....if tht happenz thn i guess a lot of ppl wil b discouraged to plagirize....cuz im pretty sure they don wana flunk their uni........so ya...internet shud b used at home...nd parentz shud get more involved......nd ya no computerz in da kidz room..hehehhe.........mayb how abt da parentz room?..tht way da use of internet wil onli b limited to good use..nd not bad.........
also da language...well..u cant reali do nethin abt tht i guess...but think abt da gud point...ur typin speed actually increases by chattin......

[KutuB]

Well...If ye use it f'r educatIon..so far so good..once ye alter teh use..tsk tsk!!

[darkcrunk]

Ah .. i been waiting : ) . .

look like severus already said what I really wanted to say . . kids come online, find free porn or download via p2p and get game cheats from gamespy.. believe me, that is ALL kids do ! ..however, the good ones among them open up MSN and chat to their freinds about "i want her dude ! " or "ooo he is sooo hawwwt" . . .. thus, kids no internet for you..

now, my last line was a bit harsh wasnt it ?

ofcourse.. thats how i wanted it..

we cant control them : (.. we just cant ! ( or can we ? ..read more .. ) we give them a computer with internet and thats it ! how many parents today, really knows how to use the computer and the internet ? .. there are softwares, that keeps out pornsites ( n sometimes terrorist sites ..but i dont mind those ) . . then again, the parents have no clue ! .. oh jolly, i can post it in the newspaper .. .


Now that we are done with this . . here is what i REALLY think . .

what really, is the bad affect of porn ? .. kids get to learn. . its one kind of education after all . .

they get to play games , which sharps their brains up.. they get to talk to ppl, meet new ppl and thus, isnt really locked inside the box of misery !

now, their studies might go into hell .. if they continue like that .. its true . they might really not score a perfect GPA 5 or 8 straight As .. but this is what has to be compensated in suchacase ..

from my view . .kids without the internet SUCK. they are dumb, they really have no clue about the world and they are stuck into a dumb world full of text-books and hindi cinemas ( they jackoff watching them anyway..y not porn then ? ) ..

conclusion ? : kids need the internet, they just need a proper guidance, thats all . .and proper guidance from me would be not too much chatting or porn. but browsing ! .. starting from google to the infamous WiKi and everything else that comes in between : ) . . recently, blogging has taken the world at its grasp.. using the computer and learning softwares like 3ds Max and Photoshop are good as well ( i hate ppl of my age who say they dont know how to work with layers in photoshop.. yes, i hate u all ) . .

give them fast computers, give them internet.. just tell them frankly, dont waste too much time on porn and chat, and believe me, they WILL listen to u . .

[CutE_CupiD]

yes i guess...itz gud...i do agree wid subah...

[Icy]

Not just internet.. Kidz der jonno to cable tv o bad.. So main thing is kidz der k control korar responsiblity oder guardian der.. Actually it depends.. Keo jodi kharap side ta choose kore u hav nothin to do.. But Bangladeshe'r education system a school porua karo net dorkar nai I guess..

[angelmorn]

ques:kids'der jonne tahole bhalo ki??..."memorize history of usa...russia".