Rola i miejsce Internetu we współczesnej edukacji

The computer and the Internet can be treated in two different ways: as an educational subject or as technical measures supporting educational process. They are intermediaries to convey knowledge and skills between a student and a teacher - they take over the functions of a handbook, register the learner’s effects of work, point out to obstacles, are efficient and useful tool to present various kinds of methods and solutions. The Internet and computer are technical means that are particularly useful to manage the process of learning. They are helpful to supervise and evaluate studying and also to revise material with learners. In case of using the Internet and multimedia equipment, the possibilities of education are much greater. The Internet is like a bag without a bottom where an incredible amount of information has been collected. Let's imagine these millions of servers and machines attached to them, all with discs that are loaded with gigabytes of data. The magic of big numbers works: if we assume that each computer is equipped with a 80 GB disc, then how many gigabytes do we have in the whole Internet? Hundreds of millions so hundreds of thousands terabytes - in a very careful estimation. And obviously the net grows every day as the number of computers increases. In consequence an average Internet user becomes more and more lost and helpless. How to find exactly the Information we are looking for in the increasing ocean of information? The computer and Internet teach, entertain, stimulate creativity. On the other hand they have no sense of feeling when the user needs advice and consolation. It is not a pattern to copy such as sensible parents are. The computer like other creations of science and technology belongs to indirect reality objects, which means appearing between a man and nature.