Impact of ICT on the way Students do things at home and at college/school.

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Bharat Patel 10N                                                                                                           Report 3A

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Impact of ICT on the way Students do things at home and at college/school.

Introduction:

Technology has changed the way the community works. They are more included in people’s everyday life activities. Technology has developed in various ways, for example televisions have transformed from old black and white sets to colored plasma sets. Technology has become the driving force of change in the modern world. It has altered our economic structures and the ways we communicate.

Email:

The first technology I am going to evaluate is going to be on emailing. Electronic mail, abbreviated e-mail or email, is a method of composing, sending, and receiving messages over electronic communication systems. The term e-mail applies both to the Internet e-mail system based on the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) and to intranet systems allowing users within one company or organization to send messages to each other. In order for the messaging to work, both the receiver and the sender need an email account. Often these workgroup collaboration systems natively use non-standard protocols but have some form of gateway to allow them to send and receive Internet e-mail. Some organizations may use the Internet protocols for internal e-mail service.

Advantages:

The advantages of E-Mail are that the messages are quick and easy to send (within seconds you can send and receive E-Mail); they are great for socialising, personal and work related needs and is also ideal for communicating to people over long range distances. E-Mail can be sent anywhere in the world and best of all…It is completely free over the personal Computer (Hotmail, Yahoo mail, G-Mail etc).

Disadvantages:

The disadvantages of E-mail are that not everyone has equipment to send and receive e-mail. However, with Internet access available from televisions, landline phones and mobile phones it could soon take over from traditional paper-based mail. E-mails are not as secure as traditional letters because they can be accessed by ‘hackers’. The equipment needed to send and receive e-mail is expensive compared with traditional methods of communication.

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Personal:

Email meets my needs personally in three different ways. Firstly, I can use it as a way of communicating with my friends and family for free. This is good because I use email a lot and if emailing wasn’t free then it would cost me a lot to pay. Secondly, I have signed up to a music website which sends me an email every few weeks about the new releases of songs. This lets me catch up on my music so that I’m not behind. Lastly, I occasionally use it as a storage system when I forget to ...

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