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Education online: the basics
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The wealth of information
Pull together the shelves, draws, storage rooms and notice boards of every public library in Britain and you still won’t have enough room to house the amount of information available on the Internet. In fact, at the beginning of 2000, there were more than two billion accessible pages on the Net, with the amount growing by some seven million every day – that’s 80 pages per second. The volume of material is immense and a significant proportion holds something of interest for adults as well as for children trying to learn.
The wealth of information
Pull together the shelves, draws, storage rooms and notice boards of every public library in Britain and you still won’t have enough room to house the amount of information available on the Internet. In fact, at the beginning of 2000, there were more than two billion accessible pages on the Net, with the amount growing by some seven million every day – that’s 80 pages per second. The volume of material is immense and a significant proportion holds something of interest for adults as well as for children trying to learn.
So, where do you start?
- A good and very familiar starting point is BBC Online. It has a vast array of educational pages designed for all ages and learning abilities. An excellent resource for teachers. Try the BBC’s brilliant Dinosaur World for a colourful introduction to life on prehistoric Earth.
- Encyclopaedias are another good starting point – and the world’s most famous one, Britannica now has its own website. The online version is even richer and more informative than the popular set of books because the publishers have made real creative use of the Web’s multimedia capabilities. If you need more specialist information or greater depth, Britannica provides a host of links to take you just where you want to be.
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