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Living In Darkness Research Paper

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Living in Darkness: Students Who Are without Computers in Their Educational Career.

It was the second to last day of school and Bill and his classmates were ready for their final test of the year. The teacher told them that it was a take home test that was online and all they had to do was submit it when they were finished. Bill was the only student in the class without a computer so he was not able to do it. So he ended up falling behind all his other classmates as they moved onto the 5th grade while he had to stay in the 4th grade. If Bill were to have a computer he would have been able to take advantage of all the positive effects that computers offer to students in today's world.The problem is that not every student can afford …show more content…

With a computer my grades excelled it was easy to research for projects for science and history, while it was easy to type papers for english. A study done by The Pew Research Center 75% of teachers said that computers and online search engines had a positive effect on their students educations. For example a student would be able to search a word that they are unsure of which takes ten seconds instead of flipping through the dictionary for a few minutes. Annie Gowen of The Washington Post discusses how in 2009 one in three families in the United States is without access to a computer. Gowen goes on to talk about a young girl who was apart of the percentage of families without computers and how it affected her education. Gowen states that the girl struggled to do her online assignments and was not able to research for her …show more content…

Students who have access to computers have more resources at their disposal and will be able to succeed easier than other students. Gerry Smith who has a Masters degree at Northwestern writes that an estimated 100 million people in the United States are without computers or internet access. Smith talks about a girl named Jillian Maldonado and the struggles that she goes though just to get her assignments finished and to turn them in. Jillian is a single mother and must walk to her job and school because she can not afford a vehicle or public transportation. She has to walk three miles to her local library to type and submit her paper. She might not be in High School but just think many students are not allowed able to drive or afford public transportation and this is basically what they must go though just to do their school work. With the schools providing laptops to their students they will not have to struggle with walking or looking for a place just to turn in their

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