Online Tutoring - Can The Internet Replace Tutors?
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Article Title: Online Tutoring - Can The Internet Replace Tutors?
Author: Tristan Andrews
Category: Online
Word Count: 416
Keywords: tutoring,tutors,tutor,tutoring services,online tutoring
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We have come a long way since the days of teaching students in the classroom. Today there are online colleges and GED programs. There are even a number of websites that offer online tutoring. When you type in online tutoring into the search engine you get over 2 million results. These results range from tutoring places that happen to have websites to free online math tutoring. Let's face it most students in schools these days use computers so why not create programs that are designed to help your kids online.
There are some great ideas when it comes to online tutoring but are online tutors better than people tutors. Some people say yes because of one simple fact is that people believe computers cannot be wrong. They believe that a computer can teach your child to do math better because it is on a computer. While most of the time this may be true. Computers are only as correct as the people who put the information up on it.
The belief that people tutors are better because the kids get a hands on experience. If they don't understand how something works then they can stop the tutor and get more background as to why they don't understand and maybe the tutor can explain it in a different way. With online tutoring, you can't go back and stop the lesson, you may be able to get help but it is not the same.
Online tutoring for certain subjects such as World Studies and Science these sites may work very well, but for more interactive subjects like Math and English, a real person would be better suited to help your child. There are some schools that offer free tutoring after school but that type of tutoring is done online. While teachers supervise, kids get the help they need online. Experts say that these forms of tutors help the child with problem solving and then if they get stuck on something then the teacher can help them.
Online tutoring has is place and if it is done correctly then your child can benefit a lot from it. As we mentioned before, online tutoring is great for problem solving. It also teaches the students more about computers, which is something that they cannot ever go without knowing. It was different when we were kids, there were no in the classroom computers and no at home computers. Today, if you don't know who to use a computer then you are behind.
Tristan Andrews is a freelance author who writes articles about Tutors and other Tutoring topics for http://www.tutoring-services.org
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Article Title: Online Tutoring - Can The Internet Replace Tutors?
Author: Tristan Andrews
Category: Online
Word Count: 416
Keywords: tutoring,tutors,tutor,tutoring services,online tutoring
Author's Email Address: resources@contactusa.com
Article Source: http://www.articlemarketer.com
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We have come a long way since the days of teaching students in the classroom. Today there are online colleges and GED programs. There are even a number of websites that offer online tutoring. When you type in online tutoring into the search engine you get over 2 million results. These results range from tutoring places that happen to have websites to free online math tutoring. Let's face it most students in schools these days use computers so why not create programs that are designed to help your kids online.
There are some great ideas when it comes to online tutoring but are online tutors better than people tutors. Some people say yes because of one simple fact is that people believe computers cannot be wrong. They believe that a computer can teach your child to do math better because it is on a computer. While most of the time this may be true. Computers are only as correct as the people who put the information up on it.
The belief that people tutors are better because the kids get a hands on experience. If they don't understand how something works then they can stop the tutor and get more background as to why they don't understand and maybe the tutor can explain it in a different way. With online tutoring, you can't go back and stop the lesson, you may be able to get help but it is not the same.
Online tutoring for certain subjects such as World Studies and Science these sites may work very well, but for more interactive subjects like Math and English, a real person would be better suited to help your child. There are some schools that offer free tutoring after school but that type of tutoring is done online. While teachers supervise, kids get the help they need online. Experts say that these forms of tutors help the child with problem solving and then if they get stuck on something then the teacher can help them.
Online tutoring has is place and if it is done correctly then your child can benefit a lot from it. As we mentioned before, online tutoring is great for problem solving. It also teaches the students more about computers, which is something that they cannot ever go without knowing. It was different when we were kids, there were no in the classroom computers and no at home computers. Today, if you don't know who to use a computer then you are behind.
Tristan Andrews is a freelance author who writes articles about Tutors and other Tutoring topics for http://www.tutoring-services.org
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