The Significance of Internet Access

The Significance of Internet Access: Exploring its Impact on Education
INTRODUCTION
Technology has been of outstanding contribution to education

in the 21st century. It has made different innovations that have eased and
widened the way of learning for students. Most learners now own cellular
phones, tablets, laptops, and other technological devices that help aid
their way of learning and interacting with the community as part of their
social life. Upon using these devices, it has one major characteristic –
access to the internet. The Internet is a wide network that allows
computer devices all over the world to communicate and synchronize
with each other (Sample, 2018).
It can be said that the internet would then contain countless amounts of
information caused by the quantity and frequency it is used by
individuals. In several fields worldwide, information and communication
technology (ICT) has been a vehicle for creativity and quality academic
enhancement. From both outside and within the classroom in the
education sector, ICT has been an integral part of the teaching and
learning process for high school students.
The Internet is a worldwide network system that connects a diverse set of

commercial, public, business, academic, and government networks to
enable global communication and access to data resources. The senior
high school level of education occupies a very important position in the
educational system as it is the bridge connecting the primary and tertiary
levels of education. Special attention given to this level will influence the
quality of the products from the group that would either be pushed into
the labor market or the higher levels of the national education system
(Ikpeba, 2010). In the past decade, the Internet has reached various
places, often acting as an agent of change. It is now making major
impacts in primary and senior high schools across the world. In the age of
globalization information and technology, the Internet has become a
major factor in human knowledge development, organizational
management, business activities, and leisure activities. The Internet has
become increasingly important to users in their everyday lives (Horrigan
& Rainie, 2006).
It creates new ways for citizens to communicate, congregate, and share

information of a social nature (Kedem, 1999). People worldwide can
communicate and respond to mutual needs instantly. Tele-conference
accelerates the completion of a project. Open and distance learning
provides worldwide learners with convenience and inexpensive
educational opportunities, especially for low-income learners.
Telemedicine allows medical specialists in Boston to diagnose and treat
patients in California (Kedem, 1999). These are some benefits offered by
the Internet which provides access to millions of resources worldwide and
enables users to collect, store, transmit, and retrieve information from
other individuals, private companies, government agencies, academic
institutions, research institutes, etc. Information Technology (11)
concerned with the computer system which helps the internet is an
electronic system as interconnected computer networks of a global
network system to share and publish huge information resources and
services, online of the World Wide Web (WWW) and the infrastructure
to support email. (Merriam- Webster, 2020).Information Technology
(1T)Information Technology (IT) concerns the computer system which
helps to store, transfer, process, and present information. The main goal
of Information Technology is to make people and society benefit from it.
The study concluded that an increase in internet use was very useful in
the improvement of learning outcomes. The study also found the negative
impacts of internet use which leads to distraction as time is spent on
social media instead of studies. Therefore, it is proposed that University
authorities should provide guidelines to help students overcome some of
the challenges faced when using the internet.
Purpose of our study
The purpose of this study is to determine what is the

significant use of internet access. It helps the students with the
learning process as it helps to simplify the knowledge. Also, it
helps to visualize what is being taught by the teachers in school.
If you want to prepare for final exams, you can access Video
Tutorials and other resources online through the Internet also.
Teachers can also make use of the internet by proving the
students with extra study material and resources such as
interactive lessons, educational quiz as well as tutorials.
Teachers can record their lectures and provide them to the
students for revisions which is better than reading from notes.
The Internet is a boon to people and is used all over the world.
Hence, it should be used for good purposes. It has had a great
impact on imparting education to the children. If this is used in
appropriate ways that meet children’s development level, they
can benefit and learn from the Internet. Over the last decades,
internet connectivity has improved tremendously and is
available everywhere such as homes, offices, travel and schools
(Ellore, 2014) Today, empirical studies
(Akende, 2015) report that access to information can influence
the academic performance of students. The use of credible
Internet resources is of greater importance for academic study,
especially in high-class courses which require an academic
review of the literature (Sahin, 2010). Intern use for educational
purposes is found by (Kim, 201) to be the heart of adolescent
academic achievement, and not all students have funds to afford
to buy gadgets to search for important details or their
assignments the reason for this problem is lack of funds

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The Significance of Internet Access: Exploring its Impact on Education

Technology has been of outstanding contribution to education

The Internet is a worldwide network system that connects a diverse set of

It creates new ways for citizens to communicate, congregate, and share

Purpose of our study

The purpose of this study is to determine what is the

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