This last year of teaching I tried to incorporate more internet based research. Through this course I developed a unit plan that will get me started using the internet on a more regular basis. The most useful information that I received from this course is that “we had better start teaching” our students “to be web literate” (Eagleton & Dobler, 2007, p. 119). I implemented internet research within my class last year but I did not teach them how to use the web.
Through this course I plan on teaching my students how to use the web at the beginning of each year. This will allow me to use web literacy projects through out the whole year. I will also be more aware of how to help the students search for information on the web because of the knowledge I have gained about my researching and evaluating skills. Along with the information that I have gained from this course, I have also produced a unit plan that is a great starting place for me with introducing web literacy. This unit plan will be used next school year and is a starting place for producing more unit plans that include web literacy.
To pursue my learning of web literacy, my goal for this next year is to search the internet each week and find a useful website to share with my students. By showing my interest in searching the web, the students will hopefully become more interested. This will also improve my research skills in which I can use towards teaching my students how to search the web for reliable information. I am also hoping through this goal that my students will see how useful the internet is and use the sites that I provide for them. They might even find their own sites that will be useful for them and their classmates.
Monday, June 21, 2010
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