Computers in the Workplace

Computers have completely revolutionized many different industries. The industry I have chosen to write about is Education. Computers have changed education so much over the last few years. Education at all levels has evolved and changed, when I was young and in elementary school we just had a couple of hours a week to have a keyboarding practice. Nowadays young kids have computer time daily and many different learning avenues have been developed for teaching young children. Not to mention the idea of education at a higher level. Look at all of us, we are pursuing degrees online through a fantastic school where we will never see each other. We are able to communicate and work with each other over the internet because of the advances that computers have made recently. In the past, those working to graduate from college in the past had to use books to research different topics. Encyclopedias and dictionaries were required to complete the work necessary in college. Because of computers we now have far more information at our fingertips because of the internet than previous generations did flipping through encyclopedias. Also, the concept of Microsoft Word has completely changed how papers are written and submitted to teachers. Again, in the past papers were hand-written and had to be physically turned in to the teacher who had to decipher the handwriting. Currently, students can just submit a paper to a teacher who can read it from any device in the world and at their earliest convenience.