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Schools and the Internet<\/h3>\n\n

In 1996, the Telecommunications Act was signed into law, creating the E-Rate program that provided discounts of 20% to 90% to schools (depending upon the number of poor children in a district) to allow them to purchase Internet access for the school or library. More than 98% of American public schools have some kind of Internet access for students. Some 77% of instructional classrooms have Internet connections, and the number drops to 60% for schools with the highest concentrations of poverty.[11.numoffset=”11″ Cattagni, Anne, Farris, Elizabeth, and Westat. Statistics in Brief<\/em>, \u201cInternet Access in U.S. Public Schools and Classrooms: 1994-2000,\u201d National Center for Education Statistics, May 2001] Our surveys show that 11% of online teens say their primary Internet access location is their school. Even if teens primarily access the Internet from home, many say the Internet\u2019s ability to help them with their schoolwork and to learn about new things is one of the best things that the Internet has brought to their lives and is often one of the major reasons why families first go online.<\/p>\n\n

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Access at school <\/strong> <\/p>\n\n

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More than six in ten (64%) youth who say they have Internet access say they have gone online at school at one time or another. Our survey suggests that school is often the place where those who are less privileged have their primary access to the Internet. A greater percentage of youth of single parents, from low-income families and whose parents do not go online (some respondents are part of each of those groups), have their primary access at school or at friends\u2019 houses. Youth with parents who have been online for a long time are less likely to have their primary access at school. <\/p>\n

The Internet as teaching tool<\/strong> <\/p>\n

Parents agree with their online children that Internet helps with learning. Almost all the parents interviewed (93%) believe that the Internet helps their children learn new things. Eighty-seven percent of parents also believe that the Internet helps with school. <\/p>\n

Research for papers and projects\u2014From Dewey Decimal to dot-com<\/strong> <\/p>\n

For the teens in this survey, the Internet has replaced the library as the primary tool for doing research for significant projects. Almost all online teens use the Internet to do research for school\u201494% report using the Internet for this purpose. \u201cI find the Internet most useful when I need help for school,\u201d maintained a 15-year-old boy in the Greenfield Online group discussion. \u201cWith out the Internet you need to go to the library and walk around looking for books. In today\u2019s world you can just go home and get into the Internet and type in your search term. The results are endless. There is so much information that you have to ignore a lot of it.\u201d <\/p>\n

When asked to think about the last big report they wrote for school, 71% of all online teens report relying mostly on Internet sources for their research. Another quarter (24%) reported using mostly library sources, and 4% said they used both equally. Older teens were slightly more likely than younger ones to report relying on Internet sources (74% compared to 68%) And three-quarters of youth who go online every day used the Internet as their main source for their last school report compared to 68% of youth who go online less often. Students cite the ease and speed of online research as their main reasons for leaving the library behind, and also say that the Internet frees them and their parents from the hassle of getting to the library to find the information they need.<\/p>\n

Learning which information to trust<\/strong> <\/p>\n

How do teens know what Web information is accurate? Some teens use a \u201cgut-sense\u201d or an \u201cI know it when I see it\u201d rule to determine what is good information and what is not. Said one 17-year-old girl in the Greenfield group: \u201cI think you have to use your best judgment \u2013 and best guess.\u201d Some double check with books or other Web sites on similar topics, and some go by whether a Web site has a good reputation or a trustworthy offline counterpart. Many teens are fairly skeptical of the information they see on Web sites because they are aware of how easy it is to publish online. Anne Hird supports this sentiment in her book Learning from<\/i> Cybersavvy Students<\/i>. She writes that \u201cas a result of their own experience designing Web pages, these students approach online information with caution. They are quick to recognize that there is nothing to prevent anyone \u2013 themselves included \u2013 from providing either biased or erroneous information on the Internet.\u201d[12. Hird, Anne. Learning from Cybersavvy Students: How Internet-Age Kids Impact Classroom Teaching<\/em>, Stylus Publishing, 2000 p. 82]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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