Internet and WWW (Week 7)

Hi everyone. It’s me again. I’m so excited to share with you all about what I have learnt today in my class. Well, from the title itself you all would have a hint that the topic is not something new for us. Yet, it is very useful and interesting when it comes to educational wise. All we know about internet is just to google something when we doesn’t know anything and use social media to voice out our opinion. But, how many of us know that we can learn through internet especially Math? Well, let me share what I have learnt for today in detail.

Basically, internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard Internet protocol suite (often called TCP/IP, although not all protocols use TCP) to serve billions of users worldwide. It connects millions of interconnected individual networks and computers. The Internet carries an extensive range of information resources and services, such as the inter-linked hypertext documents of the World Wide Web (WWW) and the infrastructure to support email.

Detailed explanation was given to us about the Networks and Internet where Computer networks enable people to communicate with each other through stand-alone computers, while Internet enables people to communicate across the globe. Networking and Internet help users to search and communicate information, and to make it possible for teachers and learners to interact with each other globally to discover new ideas. Networks and Internet can be used as management tools to perform management tasks within a school or across a school district.

In addition, the primary purpose of a computer network is to share resources. Other than that, our lecturer also explained to us about what is:

a) A server - more powerful computer that connects individual workstations to each other and also to the sharable peripherals such as printers.

b) A hub - equipment that connects the workstations, and it is connected to the server.

c) A protocol - common standardized communication format.

d) Bandwidth - network transmission media can be classified into Small Bandwidth that can transmit small files, Medium Bandwidth that can transmit medium files (documents, spreadsheets, simple graphics), Large Bandwidth that can transmit large files (graphics, documents), and Very Large Bandwidth that can transmit very large files. However, very large files can also be transmitted through Small Bandwidth by converting them to packets.

e) Packets - small files or sub-files of a larger file which are broken down by the sending server, so that they can be sent through Small Bandwidth.

f) Privacy and security - To protect privacy, the sharing of files should be limited, while the work of individual students should not be posted for public domain. For security purposes, networks will limit access only to those who are identified as intended users of the files.

There are more than one uses of internet in teaching and learning process, such as:

a) Internet services can be used in various ways in teaching and learning.

          - Browser can be used to get information related to a particular lesson

          - E-mail can be used to send messages to students and also for students to ask                     questions and send assignments to their teachers.

          - Conferencing and videoconferencing can be used to discuss on certain topic,                   when teachers and learners are located far apart, may be in different countries.

b) Mailing list can be used by teachers to create mailing lists of groups of students for teachers to send information/announcement to their students quickly.

Furthermore, our lecturer explained to us about the advantages of internet in teaching and learning process:

a) Learn at Your Own Pace

b) Use a Variety of Teaching and Learning Styles

c) Keep a Flexible Schedule

That’s all I’ve learnt from today’s class. Hope you get something from this post which can help your teaching and learning process to be interesting through internet. Thank you for your time. Please do leave a feedback before you can move on to another post. See you again in another post. Have a great day ahead.