1: The teacher might be doing this out of ignorance
2: The teacher might be doing this out of insight
3: The teacher might be doing this because not everyone has high speed Internet.
If it is done out of ignorance, it is because the Internet is this big scary unknown that someone told them "anyone can edit" so they banned it. That is awful.
If out of insight, I've seen more and more students at the university-level think that an article is something they say on Buzzfeed. (Not kidding) By banning the Internet, it forces students to do more effort (sometimes literally because they have to physically travel to a library) to prove their point.
Lastly with high speed Internet, the upper-middle class were the first I knew to get high speed broadband back in high school. To this day, it isn't cheap where I live (is it for you? It is better now, but would still be a burden for many where I live) so banning the Internet puts an even constraint on students. (Before anyone mentions a computer lab, staying late at the computer lab is not the same as using wifi while you're bed or desk at home)
I think the insight point is valid, but I disagree with the approach I've seen instructors take in the past. I know in college we were always told we couldn't use Wikipedia, but what they should have taught us instead was to use Wikipedia similar to how we use Google: as a springboard to find the sources we should use and cite.
1: The teacher might be doing this out of ignorance 2: The teacher might be doing this out of insight 3: The teacher might be doing this because not everyone has high speed Internet.
If it is done out of ignorance, it is because the Internet is this big scary unknown that someone told them "anyone can edit" so they banned it. That is awful.
If out of insight, I've seen more and more students at the university-level think that an article is something they say on Buzzfeed. (Not kidding) By banning the Internet, it forces students to do more effort (sometimes literally because they have to physically travel to a library) to prove their point.
Lastly with high speed Internet, the upper-middle class were the first I knew to get high speed broadband back in high school. To this day, it isn't cheap where I live (is it for you? It is better now, but would still be a burden for many where I live) so banning the Internet puts an even constraint on students. (Before anyone mentions a computer lab, staying late at the computer lab is not the same as using wifi while you're bed or desk at home)