Pupils' Response 6-Using A Personal Computer To Do Your Schoolwork

There are advantages and disadvantages to using a computer. These are some examples:

Advantages:
1. We can find more information about something on the internet.

2. We can blog about a lot of things.
3. Computers make doing work faster and more efficient.
4. We can store much more information in a personal computer.
5. When we have a lot of information to store, we can check very easily if the new piece of information is already available, so that we don't save something more than once.

6. We can communicate with many people at the same time using Google Talk or MSN Messenger, etc.

Disadvantages:
1. Spending long hours in front of the monitor can spoil our eyes.
2. Sometimes, when the PC hangs, we may lose information or data that we might have been working halfway on.
3. The school computers sometimes restart when we leave them unattended, so we may also lose information or data that we might have been working halfway on.
4. We may be distracted by easy access to on-line games.
5. When computers are slow, we may have to wait for a very long time for them to boot up or to install programmes.

6. We may become lazier as we rely on the computer to process information for us.