Internet Resources!

How might any of the following technologies enhance your students' learning in your unit?
What resources and instruction will you need to provide students to ensure that their use of the Internet enhances their learning?

Technology is very helpful in today's society. It helps create a link for children, as well as expanding they outlook on many different activities. It creates a new and different way to collect information on a variety of topics. For example bugs to computers to music. I can also use technlogy to create new ways to turn in the websites for example from Google Docs or Blogger. This is also a good way for students to stay in contact with their teachers, it allows the students to email the teachers with questions about a participular assignments. This is also helpful with the project and inquiry based learning. For inquiry based learning it allows the students to complete the research on a participular topic. Many different websites have examples for students to go and see for the creation of projects as wells information to put on the board or whatever the case may be.
Teachers can also the internet to talk with other teachers in the same field you can send emails to each other or leaving comments on a participular website link a blog. This is allows the students to post information on the website because it gives them a place to contain the information. Technology can make students excited about learning and when learning is fun students can not wait to learn.

Interenet Search Engines:
The search engines are helpful because they can take a board topic and point the students the right direction on the participular topic. For example, if the student puts in a search topic like butterflies, it comes up with information about the life span and different pictures of butterflies. The instruction part comes in when the teacher could create a worksheet with question about a participular topic and therefore the student look online for the answers to the questions. This way students learn how to "surf" the web to look for a certain piece of information.

Blogs:
Blogging is very helpful. It allows people to stay connected and up to date with what is going on. For example if a group of teachers set up a blogging website about a teaching topic the other teachers could go in an comment. This could also helpful for students because it gives them a place to attach their assignments. It also is a place where children who are sick on a certian day can go and see what they did a given day. This also would be a good idea for parents. It would allow them to see what their child is doing on a given day.

Technology is very helpful tool for the classroom it creates a connection between today's children and the information on a certain topic. It also creates a link between what the students are doing in a classroom, so their parents can see it through things like blogging websites.

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