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Have you noticed that wherever you are at home, at the offices,
at the cafes or even at school, computers are always with you? Obviously,
information technology has become a part of our society. Almost everyone
has at least a computer at home. So, to meet the trend, government has
wisely invested a huge amount of money to computerize all schools in HK.
According to a recent survey result, 90% of both primary and secondary school has gradually computerized after the year 2000. In which, most of the teachers claimed that their workload are relieved after using computers as a tool to prepare their teaching materials. Since more work can be done within a short period, for instance, a teacher can type his or her work and print out another document at the same time. Unlike what they did before, write out what they want to teach student in a very tidy way and then photocopy them. Although some of them complained that their computers always experienced with some problems, most of the problems are very minor and can be solved within a few minutes by simply rebooting them, in particular, serious problems can still be solved by the computer teachers in school. Besides, by surfing the Internet, many teaching materials can be found by simply clicking the mouse. As there are thousands of websites in the virtual world, information can be searched out easily. In this way, teachers can select the useful one out to enrich and fascinate their teaching materials. As a result, students pay more attention in class and make the learning environment friendly. Some teachers claimed that searching information through a search engine, most of the websites that found are unless, and this lower the efficiency of their work, but measures have been taken to arrange the most useful and related websites at the top of the list, so it will not be an obstacle. Recently, a test had been carried out with 2 groups of students doing the same exercise. One group had the lesson and did the exercise traditionally in a classroom while the other had the lesson with the help of the learning materials on the Net and then did the exercise online. The result implied those students that completed the exercise via computers got a higher grade than those in the classroom. This test strongly told us a truth. Students can absorb more knowledge and perform better with the aid of computers with a link of networks. Even though some students tempt to play online games, using computers to make the classes become interactive is still practical as those students are only particular cases. If schools can take appropriate actions to temperate those minoritiesˇ¦ behaviors, there is nothing bad to use computers in schools. There is no doubt in worrying about computerizing schools. Apparently,
information technology will continue to be an assistant role for schoolsˇ¦
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