Example of an Essay on the Internet as a Learning Medium

Currently, access to the Internet is more and more frequent by students when looking for information. The use of the Internet as a research tool has quickly become a great alternative for the use of libraries. It is now common to find a computer room with Internet access in a library. The interrelation that exists between these two great sources of information is therefore evident. However, the fact that more and more students in general prefer to obtain the data they he needs for his research through the "information highway" and not the library traditional.
Why does the student prefer to search the Internet and neglect access to libraries?
Among the main causes that we can list about the growing preference and change of this behavior we can cite XXX that clearly answers the unknowns:
• The need to collect data quickly and efficiently.
• The high cost of books, which makes it necessary to look for alternatives to obtain the information contained in them without having to buy them.
• Lack of time that prevents us from moving to a public library every time we need it.

• The deplorable state in which many of the libraries find themselves, which do not have a large quantity of useful material for our research and what little we get is in poor condition most of the times.
From the above, the great unknown arises, what are the repercussions of the use of the Internet in education:
• Do the learning processes change?
• Is it necessary to memorize or just know where the information is located?
• If so, does the internet become a hard drive attached to our memory which we can consult anywhere, at any time?
Some of these answers are answered by Mauro Cabrera and Lautaro Cupaiuoli in a study they carried out on the matter:
The main added value, the main difference, between some students and others, between some professionals and others, between some entrepreneurs and others, will no longer be given by who has more information but by those who will have the ability to better interpret the information and elaborate it more creatively, producing a better reasoning quality.
Internet enables, for the first time in the history of education, that the mind is freed from having to retain an enormous amount of information; It is only necessary to understand the concepts about the dynamics of the processes in which information is framed, This allows the use of pedagogical methods with which the student can learn more and better in one year than what was required. three.
Now teachers can allocate their effort and that of students to further develop the mental capacities that enable them to students to be able to "properly understand" the information and "elaborate it creatively", thus being able to produce a superior quality of reasoning.

People who are not trained to produce efficiently, creatively, the vast and varied information that they can obtain on the Internet, will not be able to optimally use this extraordinary instrument, they will see the process of converting information into knowledge impoverished, in their job performance the level of ignorance that this produces allows to speak of a type of illiterate that will be increasingly rejected in the fields labor.