On Their Own: Students' Academic Use of the Commercialized Web
Ebersole, Samuel E.
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Title
On Their Own: Students' Academic Use of the Commercialized Web
Author(s)
Ebersole, Samuel E.
Issue Date
2005
Keyword(s)
Commercialization
Internet
Libraries and the World Wide Web
World Wide Web
Abstract
This article reviews research conducted in 1998–99 examining students’
perceptions and uses of the World Wide Web for academic purposes. Recent
developments in the Web that may be of particular interest to educators
and parents of students are considered.
Since the mid-1990s the Internet, and more specifically the World Wide
Web, has been eagerly adopted by school districts, administrators, teachers,
parents, and students. Recent data from the National Center for Educational
Statistics indicates that, in the fall of 2002, 99 percent of public schools
and 92 percent of instructional classrooms were wired for Internet access
(Kleiner, Lewis, & Greene, 2003). This is even more impressive when you
compare 1994 figures, which estimated that 35 percent of schools and 3
percent of classrooms had Internet access. The latest in a long line of technological
solutions to our educational woes, the Web, and its evangelists,
promise no less than a radical restructuring of the way that students access
and acquire information. However, some have raised concerns about the
value of the Web as an educational resource. Historians have noted that the
use of the Web in a public school setting marks the first time that the end
user controls the process of choosing the content to be consumed.
Publisher
Graduate School of Library and Information Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
ISSN
0024-2594
Type of Resource
text
Language
en
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