People around 25 or 30 years old, or even younger, remember to have done homework for school using magazines and books when they were children. Now, kids have all the knowledge just a few clicks of distance, they just have to have the will to access this information.
Nowadays, with tools like computers, internet and the multiple options they offer together, like searching on Google, Wikipedia or any web page, it’s much easier to find what you need. You can save to yourself valuable hours of reading stuff that sometimes it turns out to be useless.
I think the situation for the children in the ‘80s and ’90 was better if we consider that all that time they spend time searching, it helped them to be better readers, and even, to be more patience. Now, we have the habit of having things in the exact moment we ask.
Nevertheless, Internet it has turned out to be very helpful to academic activities. I have used it to get books, find out things I didn’t know or to contact my classmates.
But, of course, I can’t deny that I still go to the library and sometimes I buy books. They’re great if you want to read in the bus on in a park, and there’s where you realize that you need versatile instruments for studying. Almost any moment can be the appropriate to do your duties.
If we take this situation from other point of view, we can say that a book is better if we want to go back and forwards repeatedly, especially if when you have to remember an important fact. But also, in digitalized formats, you can use the automatic search and get just what you wanted.
Internet and books are really useful in different ways. From one you get things easier and faster, but from the other you get access in any place.
It hard to decide which is indispensable, and we think about it, both of these tools are complementary.
I think both of them will be continue to be relevant for students, not just for university students, but also for kids in elementary school, high school, and for the teachers also.
Well done Rocio!
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