My Vision for Teaching and Learning with the Internet
Ailin Huang

At the beginning of the class I summarize the advantages and disadvantages of leaning with the Internet I think the advantage is that students can feel relax using learning with the Internet, because they don’t always have to discuss with each other face to face which can make students nervous, when learning with the Internet students can prepare well before they want to share their own opinions, they have enough time to consider and record their thoughts. Learning with the Internet allow students to study at almost anywhere and anytime, they can study during the break of work, in this way they can take fully use of the time to study, although they should spare some whole part of time to work with their group members. The drawbacks can be :first, if any student has something wrong with his computer, then he may not neither attend the class nor do the homework. Second, if the software which teacher used during the class is too new that some student may not have the conditions to get that software, then they will feel they are abandoned by the new technology and teacher, because of the absence of conditions the student can now study the same knowledge with his classmates. Now at the end of the course, after reading all the materials and discussion with group members, I realize that as teachers we share some of the same problems in integrating the internet with teaching, and understanding the back ground of students is very important. There is still a lot for me to practice.

In the middle of the course I was worried that only students with high motivation can take online courses or courses that includes large amount of the Internet technology, and teacher cannot hear from those inactive students. While what Green, Timothy, Brown and Robinson (2008) stated helped me