The way we are learning and reading is consistently upgrading and growing. Maria Cecire’s “Massively Open” and Stephen King’s UR are both stories revolved around the forever upgrading internet, and its influence on schooling and literature. Though both of these stories show the negative almost scary side of the internet, they do also give evidence of how the internet in school has given us so many more learning opportunities.
In Stephen King’s UR, the main character uses the internet to find and read more literature than he thought was capable. He exemplifies just how easy it is to learn and read further than was capable with books alone. In Maria Cecire’s “Massively Open”, she exemplifies how easy it is to share different forms of literature with others. In seconds the main character in the story is able to send out different pieces of literature all based on the same topic, to teach and further learn about the topic.
If the internet continues to progress the way that it has, the way students learn and read may be completely different in 10 years. As each generation is raised and taught progressively with the internet, they evolve to use the internet to their advantage. Teachers have expressed how technology has made it easier for them to give students more ways to understand and more ways to learn, with unlimited sources of literature.
As teachers use the benefits of the internet to teach, they are also showing students how they can teach themselves, with the help of the internet. Though today we cannot imagine all schools rooted in the internet and only the internet, with no physical school or teachers to be surrounded by, it is completely possible for our generation or future generations to allow that to be the only form of schooling. I believe that as the internet evolves it could eventually replace physical schooling, and if we evolve with the internet(like we continue to do) it could benefit us in ways we are unaware of.
Literature & the Internet 