Can I live without Internet connection for a day, a week, a month, a year?

Actually this is somehow difficult question, in my opinion, it depends on the situation because sometimes we go camping or we go a trip,there we don’t have an internet and we stay there few days or a week,  but generally I think I cannot because for me I depend on the internet in many things in my life such as my studies, following the news, contact with my friends and families, increase my knowledge about many things beside that the internet is a huge references for me because as a student I don’t have many references.

How does Internet affect my life as a student?

First of all, internet in simple terms is a network that linked computer networking worldwide, which is accessible to the general public and these computers work by transmitting data through the internet.

The internet almost affects all the people and almost everything. However, the effects of the internet are more on the adult and on the students.

As a student the internet affects me in many ways. First, it affects me in the way of leaning, by the internet I can learn more like from the videos and by joining to some online courses besides sometimes it is an effective way because we have to practice and solve problems according to what you learned. Second, it affects the way of studying, for example; my studying nowadays is more arranged besides if I did not get a full understanding form the lecture, easily I can go and search for more information in the internet, beside that nowadays we can make a meeting with a group or a conference on the internet. 

Third effect is following the news, as we know that the students must follow the news to know what is going on in all the world, in my opinion to know what is happing in the world is related to our studies if it is not a main part of it, so with the internet it is so easy and fast to follow the news. Forth is the research, one of the biggest advantages of the internet is that it is access to information, such as online references, books and dictionaries besides its more fast and effective because for example the voice almost in all the dictionaries to teach you how to pronounce correctly.

Fifth, internet opened the way for many jobs such as online jobs or advertisement about jobs so by the internet the student can work a part time job while he/she is studying. Sixth effect is the entertainment, students nowadays play online game somehow the entertainment side is good because there are some good games like thinking games that make our brain improve by thinking how to solve problems like puzzle and so on. All these are advantages of the internet.

On the other hand, the internet affects the students in a negative way especially about the online games and social website, many students addicted to them and even they leave their studies just for chatting or game because they couldn’t manage their time or control their selves.

Finally, the internet has negative and positive effects on the student’s life but the positive is more than the negative if we know how to use it wisely.

The vision of one laptop per child, what is your opinion on this?

Actually it is a good idea that each child has a laptop. First, to make the country developed and to improve student’s studies and skills. However, in my opinion I think they have to put some conditions about age and others because we can see that the children use the computer to play game and they didn’t take many benefits from it, and for example here in Malaysia I heard that each student in high school will get a small laptop; notebook and i saw some of my friends got it, that’s very good and suits thing at this age.

In my opinion it is a good idea but not for the children but for the adult or when the student become aware of the life. 

How has the development of information technology influenced the common traditions of a society?

First of all, I think we should define what is information technology?

Information technology deals with the use of the electronic computers and computer's software to store, convert process and transmit the information and data.

As we know that the development of the technology and information technology is dynamic and it continues day by day, actually the (IT) and the development of it  affect the people and their traditions, for example, before we brought a computer to our home all my family was thinking that the computer has a lot of disadvantages and it is something bad and it is wasting of money, so I was secretly going to my friend’s house and to internet café to use it. At that time just the rich people have it.

However, after that the people become aware of the development of (IT) and how it affects on their life so they understand the importance of it and almost all the people try to have a computer in a house, for example of the impacts on the society is the video call; in past when the people want to contact with their relatives and family members in other countries, they need to paid a lot of money just to speak few minutes on the phone, comparing with the present time we can see how cheap it is besides they can call a video call, now my family saying that to have internet in our home is something necessary, comparing with before I was telling them to have a computer just but thy were against me .            

Another example of how the traditions influenced by the information technology and the development of it is the education, before the studying of IT and computer was rarely and the way of teaching was developed like now somehow it was writing on the wall by special kind of stone, in the other hand we can see in the present time almost in all countries the development of the education because of the development of (IT) such as the research. There are many example of the impact of (IT) in our society like in trading, business field and others.