UK: REPORT ON IMPACT OF INTERNET IN CLASSROOM

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The UK's school classrooms will become so-called learning spaces inside the coming 20 years with youngsters aided by computers and virtual teachers, according to a report by Warwick University lecturer, Alan Pritchard. Research undertaken on behalf of the Association of Teachers & Lecturers and released on 15 June 2000 envisaged major restrictions on face-to-face communication between schoolchildren and teachers. It believes that Internet research will succeed libraries as teaching software becomes more advanced and teachers will have to alter their skills accordingly. Mr Pritchard believed a need existed to teach children about Internet search engines in they same way they were taught about reference libraries in the past.

General services, Services

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UK: INFORMATION AGE COULD ALTER THE BRAIN

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The use of the same software with the same images by an entire generation of young people could lead to individuality being suppressed, warns Professor Susan Greenfield, a leading neuroscientist and a director of the Royal Institution of Great Britain. Other risks include a loss of imagination and a shorter attention span. Although use of the Internet can improve knowledge of facts among children, it does not necessarily make them more intelligence since they do not need to follow plot or theorise, and the large amount of information may just confuse them. Greenfield's research suggests that these new ways of assimilating information could eventually change the structure of brain cells by altering the way they communicate.

Marketing procedures, Marketing

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'If I did my degree again, I would do it a lot better.'

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Newscaster George Alagiah recalls that he had mixed educational experiences. He indicates that he performed well at O-level, but that his A-level results were not very good initially. He states that he very much enjoyed his time at Durham University, England.

Public affairs, Brief Article, Interview, Television journalists, Alagiah, George

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