Essay 2- My internet experience

My internet experience

            There are many fantastical worlds that we create in our imagination and where we can do almost anything we can think of. There is one, though, that is quite alive and tangible and that is the internet world. As anything, it presents advantages and disadvantages and even some difficulties at times, but it cannot be denied that it has been very useful in education. This aspect along with the influence on my L1 and L2 and my expectations regarding electronic tools will be reviewed in the following lines in order to immerse ourselves in this world that is a living fantasy.

            Teachers can pretty much be grateful for the evolution of electronic tools like the internet. It has opened a wide door to them and it has offered a world of possibilities to access exercises and techniques that can be applied in the classroom. Students are not less lucky because they have the opportunity to reach information from almost any part of the world and learn about cultures and things in general. Used with attention and caution the internet can really help make a difference in education, it might just be guidance what is needed to make a good and proficient use of this tool.

            My experience with the internet is basically recent but I can already say that it has made a difference in my L2. I hardly ever use the internet to look up something in Spanish. I have found many websites that offer a lot of exercises in English to either just practice the language or to learn it from scratch. In other websites information about the news and any topic help me acquire new vocabulary and be informed at the same time. I must confess I am not a big fun of the computer because I have trouble reading the screen after a while, but I have to recognize that nowadays the computer, along with the internet, is an indispensable tool for the students.

            My expectations about electronic tools in general are to really learn to use them. I need to be more computer literate because I usually struggle a lot when the time comes to make a project. Regarding the internet itself, I want to have the skills and the software needed to download videos and create web pages. I know that all that knowledge comes from taking some courses and from exploring on our own, which is something I don’t do very often, but I intend to concentrate in doing some study and research that will help me do a better job in my future projects and assignments.

            There is no doubt that when talking about electronic tools, and the internet in specific, we know that we are talking about a world that seems to have no end, and this is just the beginning. As I mentioned before, it seems to be tangible even tough we know it is not, but just by being able to reach it through a computer it feels somehow alive and already an almost indispensable tool in our current lives. Whether we know how to use it or not, the internet came to stay and we need to get acquainted with it as soon as possible if we want to continue to feel as part of a modern society.