Education

It is usually thought that you should attend school from 4 years to 18 years old, then going into a career that would last for the rest of your working life. However, it is now expected that a lot of students who finish school will in fact have a few careers in their lifetime; even in the same job, due to demands which have changed because of new technologies and ways of working. This can force people to change their career path and create many problems and challenges for society and individuals as jobs are receding everyday.
Education is now relying on technology a lot more to deliever better lessons at times and places that suit the person learning. It is said that llecturers dream of having their lecture recorded or live-streamed so that pupils across the country and globe can watch them at the same time or even at different times to their convenience. The UK now can deliver this 'wired up education' so now every school in the country should have access to the Internet and most should also have high speed connections to enable fast browsing in order to complete work. Some schools even have the potential for students being able to pick and mix 'learning objects' so they can create a personalised curriculum that they can learn from, suiting their needs and what they want to focus on. This allows them to also focus more on topics they may struggle with and work that they find fun and interesting instead of focusing on work they have little interest in. However this is more relevant for adult lifelong learner than school-age students. The teacher can have control over what they learn and what resources to create the ideal learning plan suited for an individual.

There are many drawbacks using of the Internet though:
- students are prone to copy large amounts of text to get work completed or to a standard they think is good enough for their teacher. This offers charges of plagiarism if caught by programs which can spot chunks of text which have been copied and even match it to the websites that it originated from.
- the Internet is one of the main places people can express themselves: it's so much easier to create websites and blogs where people can voice their opinions and then state facts which may or may not be true. Students cannot tell the difference between a fact which has been made up or actually found as may websites don't cite where they got their information from. Therefore many students can copy incorrect information or even biased material which may cause problems
- the Internet now is being used as a money-maker it would seem to many newspaper and magazine companies as they now can charge for you to read articles by them; encyclopedia's have also starting doing the same and this means students may still be denied access to correct information.