“Acquaintance with facts, truths, or principles, as from study or investigation; general erudition:” (Dictionary.com). This definition is of knowledge. Knowledge is one of the most common words. We hear the word knowledge when we are at school, we hear the word knowledge when we start working, we hear the word ‘knowledge’ when we have children and we hear the word ‘knowledge’ in our religion scriptures. Even though knowledge is used in so many that it is quite common, it is one of the words that has one of the deepest meaning. Knowledge is something that we learn throughout our lifetime, it is said that “no one knows the true meaning of knowledge until they are buried”. This means that we humans keep on learning throughout our lifetime.
In 21st century World Wide Web is being used for informing/teaching people. “The
Internet facilitates, classifies and enables the exchange of information, knowledge and news.” (Seifkashani) .There are online news papers, blogs, encyclopedia, and articles etc which are being used for enlightening people about various topics. “The Internet could be the major media to promote the reading level in the world.” (Seifkashani) . Because of internet, it has become very easy for people to access learning. As internet is widely diverse, not only do people get to know about different interpretations of various topics but also get to share their views.
Distribution of Internet Users, survey taken in March 31st 2009.Internet has rapidly been growing throughout the world. Many people go n internet for many reasons and one of the reason is education. Internet is one of the biggest sources for education. As internet especially Web 2.0 gives people the power to publish posts on shared group websites, exchange of knowledge is therefore available.
Multi lingual web sites have improved the standards of internet quite a lot. Websites such as Wikipedia are multi lingual, meaning that people can read the posts in their language (if the language is available).
When everyone throughout the world can access internet, it is guaranteed that people will receive knowledge. People can not only understand the information on internet by reading text in their own knowledge but also seeing educational videos for visual learners. These sum up to one thing that yes Technology Has Influenced The Knowledge, but in a good way, instead, I believe that technology should be encouraged more in schools for educational purpose. At OSC, we use technology for most of the subjects and while doing that, we learn relate our theory knowledge with a technological medium to describe our point of views. We use PowerPoint to show slides, we use Word to write down essays, we use Moviemaker to make videos for our project, we use websites for researching and last but not least, we use technology to relate ourselves with a wider based community; sharing our knowledge.
Work Cited:
Homepage IFLA Website. 19 Mar. 2009 http://www.ifla.org/IV/ifla69/papers/020e-Seifkashani.pdf.
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Figure 2 - Elements of the Web's Next Generation
Out of the 21 people who know what Web 2.0 is, 7 people have said that they know Web 2.0 very well that they can explain what Web 2.0 is. Though, as we sent our survey to the entire secondary school, some grade 10's must have answered it as well, hence their is a chance that those 7 people who know Web 2.0 very well can be grade 10's or maybe not. Other 14 people dont have too much knowledge about it but do understand the concept. The 14 people have a brief idea about Web 2.0. To be honest this isnt impressive, out of 35 people 21 know Web 2.0 and 14 dont know and out of 21 people, only 7 know very well and 14 just have a brief idea.
We gave people the options to choose that which websites they think are Web 2.0 (the people who said that they know Web 2.0 are only supposed to answer this question). As only 21 people in the previous questions said that they knew what Web 2.0 was, we expected to get only 21 responses, but instead we got 25. Meaning that 4 people who dont know what Web 2.0 is answered this question.
