Students turn to teaching
Last month we had a couple of students who were training to become teachers in their own countries. With this in mind their teachers arranged for them to organise and teach their own lesson using their fellow class-mates.
- Students lesson in progress
The result of the lesson was the following report on 'How People Use the Internet'
The purpose of this report is to show how people use the Internet. Information was collected via a survey of 16 students aged between 16 and 25 from different classes in the school.
A modern drug?
Surprisingly 44% think that they are addicted to the Internet although only one student spends over 20 hours on the Internet. Another point is that the majority don’t use the Internet on their mobile phones.
A simple way?
All of the students agree that it is easy to find information but two people add that sometimes the search results aren’t relevant to their problem. Other advantages are that the Internet is very fast, easy to operate and it provides a lot of information, which more than half of the students enjoy.
Do you like it?
Over 50% of those interviewed for this survey chose ‘Facebook’ as their favourite site, which shows it is very popular among students. The main reason for choosing ‘Facebook’ is communication with friends.
A further 20% of students chose an e-mail homepage. They explained that using e-mail to send pictures is much simpler than ‘Facebook’. Another 20% chose ‘YouTube’ for the reason that they can download music and watch tv programmes.
Like ‘Youtube’ there are lots of homepages from which you can download music and films illegally. The most common reason for downloading was for their MP3 player. Surprisingly, in contrast, a few students have never downloaded anything illegally.
In conclusion, it appears that over half of the students think that they aren’t addicted to the Internet and they don’t spend much time in front of the computer.
Ryoo Joo Yeon (Kate)
Jonas Weber
