TEXT A Few places are so awash in
information technology as the U. S. college campuses. And thanks to the
explosive growth of the Internet, universities have intensified their efforts to
wire the ivory tower. In many institutions, every student is armed with a
personal computer along with an e-mail account, which ensures him fur access to
the academic scene, because each college or university is hooked and logged on
to an international on-line service. More and more faculty members are sending
out syllabuses, notes, assignments, comments and even tests via e-mail, and
students feel freer and more comfortable to communicate with their professors
this way. The traditional structure of students sitting in classrooms in front
of lecturers is being broken down. It’s now proper for an
American college to have its presence on the World Wide Web, the inter-linked
digital archive for Internet users. And students set up home pages ( an opening
screen with a list of contents) for the access of Web browsers. At a time when
tuitions are already out of sight, colleges have to spend millions to keep up
with the state of the art, Last spring, 10 Wharton students of U Penn posted a
summary of a seminar on EU’s agricultural grant-in-aid policies on the Internet,
attracting some 300 electronic hangers-on from as far away as France, some of
them bankers and farmers. The program was so successful that the professor
conducted another one last fall in the same manner. But that
raises concerns for some academicians, mostly from the prime school, who
maintain there’s a distinction between information and knowledge, and believe
that the latter still requires a live teacher. They worry, as Thoreau did in his
day, that we are in danger of becoming the tools of our tools. And those tools
are getting smarter by the day. What is the most appropriate title for this passage
A.Computers Are transforming the Way Students Learn. B.Computer Networking Is Transforming the Way Students Learn. C.Students Are Learning Computers in an Ivory Tower. D.The Computer Cult Is Vulnerable to Criticism.