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Tips for Teaching with the Web
Student
discovery, critical thinking, and technology integration
are just
a few benefits of using Explore More Web sites in your classroom.
Review these suggestions for making the most of this online experience
for your students.
1. Recognize
the value the Internet can bring to the teaching/learning experience.
- Students
improve learning efficiency.
- Teachers
improve teaching strategies.
- Students
become partners in the learning process.
- Teachers
become chief learners.
- Students
become producers of knowledge.
- Students/teachers
will have virtually limitless resources.
- Students
can move toward self-directed learning.
- Teachers
can develop lessons and collaborate with other teachers more easily.
- Teachers
can combine Internet activity with other computer applications.
2. Choose
the appropriate time to use the Internet.
- Is the information
needed time sensitive?
- Are various
types of media needed?
- Is it more
interesting on the Internet?
- Does the
Internet provide first-hand information not available elsewhere?
- Is the Internet
more convenient?
- Does it
address the multiple intelligences and various learning styles?
3. Use
the Internet with appropriate guidance.
- Anticipate
problems.
- Plan each
lesson.
- Provide
guides to appropriate Web sites.
- Provide
guidance on narrowing topics.
- Teach basic
types of searches before actual searches (browse, hypertext, analytical).
- Focus on
using information found on the Web rather than searching for the
information.
- Support
learners' use of information and higher-level thinking skills
such as analysis, synthesis, and evaluation.
4. Apply
the Internet resources to the learning/teaching experience.
- Use WebQuests,
an inquiry-based activity using most (if not all) of the necessary
information from the Web.
- Brainstorm
questions/problems to be solved.
- Use Internet
for remediation and challenge.
- Use Internet
information for specific outcomes.
- Use email
to link students to other students and to experts.
- Combine
efforts into joint projects/group efforts.
- Focus on
real-life applications of information (i.e., geography = historic
sites).
- Cite sources
of information.
- Evaluate/critique
authenticity of information.
Sources:
- Journal
of Staff Development, Fall 1998
- "How
to Guide Students Through the Banquet on the Web" by Bob
Vojtek and Rosie O’Brien Vojtek
- "Internet
in the Classroom: Five Questions Discussed" by Neal Topp,
University of Nebraska at Omaha http://ois.unomaha.edu
- "The
Internet and the Elementary Classroom Teacher" from Western
Hills AEA 12, January 1999
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