This guide provides a comprehensive approach to Internet use in the school, as well as information on Internet use policies and legal issues related to student and
teacher use of the Internet.
Not exact matches
«You
used to be able to give one speech to the chamber
of commerce and another to the
teachers union, but the
Internet makes that impossible now.
A multimodal learning system is also beginning to emerge: instructor - centered learning, which is the traditional approach, but with technology that helps the
teacher mediate the delivery
of courseware and instruction; pupil - centered learning, in which the student
uses Internet resources to expand learning experiences; and collaborative learning, in which the student and others on the
Internet work together on cross-disciplinary projects concerning open - ended problems.
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An
Internet training program for educators that was adopted by 50 states and has been
used by more than 180,000
teachers has been struggling for survival because
of the financial free fall
of its primary benefactor, WorldCom Inc..
Caroline Wright, BESA director said, «British
teachers are world - leaders in the
use of educational - technology in the classroom so it is
of great concern that pupils are being denied access to innovative and effective digital learning because
of poor
internet connectivity in more than half
of the UK's schools.
Most students now have access to computers and the
Internet in their classrooms, nearly all students have access somewhere in their schools, and a majority
of teachers report
using computers or the
Internet for instructional purposes.
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The
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Teacher Preparing an Instructional Lesson
Using the Resources
of the
Internet The site describes step - by - step the process
of developing lesson plans that utilize the
Internet.
Futhermore, the data revealed that 89 per cent
of parents do not communicate with
teachers regarding their child's
use of the
internet away from home.
In a concluding whole - class discussion, the
teacher explains that the rise
of Internet use is a commonly - proposed explanation, but this is also widely challenged.
Maths
teacher and
internet sensation Eddie Woo
used his Australia Day address in Sydney on Tuesday to champion the importance
of education, and how it can change the world.
Pinterest is one
of the latest darlings
of the
internet, and
teachers were quick to find classroom
uses for this visually appealing and engaging social bookmarking website.
«Our
teachers have made the most improvement in their [level
of]
use of computer labs for
Internet access,» Holmes noted.
«Some
teachers are interested only in
using the
Internet, others want to
use a lot
of multimedia.
Grade Level: 6 - 12, Professional Cyber Bullying is a site with useful information for parents,
teachers, students, and administrators on the
use of the
Internet or other digital communication devices to be cruel or vicious to others.
Outside
of the classroom, increased connectivity on college campuses provides opportunities for students and
teachers to collaborate, empowers student research via university library — enabled online search engines, and allows students to
use enhanced electronic textbooks, which include embedded videos and hyperlinks to pertinent articles on the
Internet.
Despite the many
teachers in the ABC school system that have already embedded the
use of computers and the
internet into their lessons the effective
use and integration
of these technologies are still quite slow.
For a number
of years, education scholar Judi Harris and her graduate students studied how
teachers were
using the
Internet.
Consider the school personnel who already understand, intuitively, how this principle works: the music
teacher whose program has been cut in order to fund computer labs; the principal who has had to beef up security in order to protect high - priced technology; the superintendent who has had to craft an «acceptable
use» agreement that governs children's
use of the
Internet (and for the first time in our history renounces the school's responsibility for the material children are exposed to while in school).
«The layout
of many computer labs does not allow
teachers to look over every student's shoulder when students are
using the
Internet.
64 percent
of parents would like to be able to
use the
Internet to communicate with their children's
teachers,
«The goal
of the CIESE with its online projects is to develop and demonstrate to
teachers how the
Internet can be
used in ways other than just as a large library,» Baron told Education World.
As part
of the lesson, students
use Internet resources (typically preselected by the
teacher) to answer higher - order questions about a specific topic.
What was more surprising to her, however, is how few
teachers were
using the
Internet at all — and even fewer were aware
of, much less
using, social networking sites, despite their heavy usage by students.
Online education is a means to educate or provide educational information through the
use of the
internet, with the absence
of a physical classroom and
teacher.
They include: Improve classroom access to hardware, software, and the
Internet, bolster technical support, strengthen professional development around the instructional
uses of technology, and enlist
teachers unions to advocate for tech funding and support.
Pictures
of school activities, plus calendars, e-newsletters, examples
of student work, and week - by - week listings
of course assignments and due dates, are just a few
of the ways
teachers or principals are
using the
Internet to share important classroom and school information with parents.
This public - private sector project has come up with a solution based on five components: installing photovoltaic solar systems to provide electricity; offering
internet and IT equipment to schools; training
teachers; community development; and training community members who
use the equipment to ensure future sustainability
of the program.
Teachers are now
using some
of the newer and more advanced features in Docs et al. to suggest edits on student work for drafting purposes, as well as leaving comments, and tracking and monitoring student progress through individual and group assignments all securely from anywhere with
Internet access.
This makes it imperative for governing boards to develop and disseminate comprehensive acceptable
use policies for the
internet while taking steps to ensure that
teachers, students, and their parents understand these rules and the consequences
of non-compliance.
Based on litigation in the United States, it remains unclear where the line can be drawn between protected free speech and impermissible
use of the
internet that can subject students, and
teachers, to discipline.
Even though nearly every school in the country is now connected to the
Internet, not all
of them have the kind
of connections that allow
teachers and students to make full
use of digital learning tools.
With increased wi - fi in schools and many opting to roll out 1:1 device schemes, increased
internet access allows language
teachers to make
use of online specialist language software in class.
Educators can certainly help support safe
internet use by educating and holding talks and discussions amongst students in the class room, but
teachers can not be held responsible for supervising students when students most need it, outside
of school.
When the topic
of the digital divide arises, R. Craig Wood often asks school administrators and
teachers to picture what it would be like to surf the
Internet with their monitors turned off or without
using a computer mouse.
The information section is also interesting with biographies
of anthropologists; information on the oceans, solar system, and world populations; a resource room where
teachers can find lesson plans and links to other useful information on the Web; a tutorial for
using the
Internet; and a visit to Our World Today through Web cams.
Those include introducing and reviewing software,
Internet resources, and other appropriate materials, and making the information available to staff; coordinating computer usage in projects and activities within, across, and between curricula and schools; working with classroom
teachers, individually and in grade level teams, to plan, organize and implement the
use of technology through such activities as demonstration lessons, team teaching, and joint planning; providing both building - based and district - wide staff development at faculty meetings, district professional development days, and after - school and summer workshops; and keeping abreast
of current technologies by attending conferences and workshops on a regular basis.
Online courses allow Oracoke School to offer higher - level courses without hiring additional
teachers, and Ortman expects the
use of Internet courses to increase.
Now,
using the
internet, both students and
teachers have access to all the known information in the world with the press
of a few keys, allowing them to find the exact answer to their problem in a matter
of minutes.
We then saw how
teachers carried new literacy practices into their teaching, such as Carly allowing her students to find images on the
Internet to support their phonemic awareness and Tara's
use of blogging in her class for students to respond to their readings.
In 2000, we simply highlighted how the
Internet could be
used by
teachers to access information and people to support the development
of children's (a) «personal civic beliefs,» (b) «capacity for social and public action,» (c) «ties to their localities and the world outside,» and (d) «awareness
of past present and future» (Cogan, Grossman, & Lei., 2000, p. 50).
Interviews conducted during the course
of the study reveal that participants saw great potential for
teachers to
use DocSouth in their classrooms, since both they and their students have the requisite technology skills, the
teachers already
use the
Internet to plan instruction and for research purposes, and perhaps most importantly, part
of their goal in teaching history is to present multiple perspectives.
The
Internet, in particular, has dramatically increased the amount
of information being
used by
teachers and their students (Becker, 1999).
Publications have addressed social studies
teachers»
use of the
Internet (Sheffield, 2011; VanFossen & Waterson, 2008;), digital primary sources (Friedman, 2006; Lee, Doolittle, & Hicks, 2006), and digital filmmaking (Manfra & Hammond, 2008; Sheffield & Swan, 2012; Swan, Hofer, & Levstik, 2007).
These interviews reveal great potential for
teachers to
use DocSouth in their classrooms since both they and their students have the requisite technology skills,
teachers already
use the
Internet to plan instruction and for research, and most importantly, part
of their perceived goal for teaching history is to present multiple perspectives.
An analysis
of the
use of the
Internet and World Wide Web by secondary social studies
teachers in Indiana.
One way in which the researchers and classroom
teacher dealt with the
Internet obstacles was by creating archives
of materials (images, music, etc.) for each historical figure on CDROMs for the students to
use.
Of course, there are other
Internet uses important for middle grades
teachers that would be impossible to describe with detail in this article.