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using computers in their rooms to see what the students are doing. If parents find students are spending too much time visiting other places online and not completing assignments, they must help the student and the teacher by enacting tactics that will teach the student to stay on track, even if this means instructing the student to do his or her internet homework in a public household area such as a family room, living room, or loft.

Completing Assignments When Online Service Is Down: Many teachers require students to email homework assignments as opposed to printing hard copies. Excepting work this way may be more of a convenience for teacher and student, however, the paper conserving act does reduce the use of paper and thereby saves trees. With that said, as everyone knows, online service is not full proof. Sometimes, for whatever reason, our dial up or DSL (digital subscriber line) cease to work.

Fretting is not necessary considering the fact that computers are purchased for the use of options other than the internet. We use them for word processing, photo printing, accounting, and other tasks that require the use of a printer; and many printers today are equipped with FAX (facsimile) machines. If a student forgets his homework assignment at school, he loses it, or his dog eats it, he can have a classmate email the assignment to him. If a student's internet service is down preventing him from receiving email, he can utilize the FAX feature of his printer. A student experiencing problems with online service and FAX service can do what so many students had to do in the good old days, walk to a nearby classmates house to get the information.

Although there are many challenges involved in teaching in the age of the internet, these challenges can be overcome. For instance companies, including Microsoft, involved in programs donating computers to schools, help schools in low income areas obtain and utilize computers for their students. Microsoft offers free computer software to schools that receive donated computers.

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