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The Importance of Using Broadband Internet in Schools and Public Libraries

Schools and public libraries are places that we associate with knowledge and learning. Traditionally they are the places that we go to better ourselves, to find out about the world and to absorb or use the collected knowledge of our society. While some think that the Internet has supplanted traditional knowledge repositories – that we now go to the net and nowhere else for our absorption of the collective knowledge of our society – other more sophisticated thinkers have realised that the net is better considered as an expansion of schools and libraries.

It is undeniable that the existence of “real world” learning (books, basically) has changed: not that books no longer exist, but that finding those books is much harder without the use of an internet connection. You only have to go into a bookshop to realise that. Whatever stock they have is increasingly for show, with the emphasis being on ordering what you want from the net rather than picking it up off a shelf.

Libraries and schools use broadband internet in a different and slightly better way. A library and a school can connect to the wider world of knowledge and deliver it there and then – so instead of connecting to an ordering service, which will deliver want you want in a few days, pupils at schools can travel out into the net from their classrooms and the computer rooms in their libraries, taking what they need from the sites they discover.

Internet providers like Time Warner Internet are able to deliver excellent broadband speeds to schools and libraries – and some even have packages in place that make connecting to the net in such important environments cheaper and more financially manageable than it can be for home users. The services provided by Time Warner Internet and its compatriots are also more flexible and cross-platform than they used to be – meaning that multiple pupils and library users can connect to different types of device, and use the internet in different ways, without interfering with each other.

There’s another aspect to the importance of broadband internet usage in schools and public libraries – related to learning but in a slightly different way. That’s learning how to use the Internet for daily and work purposes, as opposed to using the Internet to learn about other things.

Almost all modern life is affected in some way by the use of the web. You’re either connected to and using services such as the ones supplied by Time Warner Internet – or whatever you are doing has the Internet as one of the links in the chain that has brought it to you. Claiming that knowledge of how to use and be on the internet is essential to knowing how to live in the modern world is not farfetched.

The school is where our children go to learn how to be adults. Given that use of the Internet is a big part of being an adult, of working and paying for things and finding out how to get to places, it makes sense that a larger part of schooling than ever should now directly involve internet usage. The library is where adults go to learn things they have missed out on – and for the same reason, it’s important that the net be there too.