Using the internet in the elementary schools
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This document discusses using the internet in elementary school classrooms. It provides guidelines for planning student internet experiences, such as selecting appropriate websites and setting clear learning objectives. It also offers strategies for using a single classroom computer, such as having students work individually or cooperatively on projects. Examples of instructional uses of the internet include communicating with other classes, taking virtual field trips, and researching information. The document concludes by mentioning student start pages and teacher resource websites.
Using the internet in the elementary schools
- 1. Using the Internet in the Elementary Schools Presented by: Raiza Roz D. Herrera-Cipriano III-A BSITE
- 2. Instructional uses of the Internet for Elementary Age Students Guidlines for Planning Students Internet Experiences Strategies and Applications for the One Computer Classroom Interactive Projects and Classroom Applications Students start pages Teacher resources
- 3. Instructional Uses of the Internet for Elementary Age Students • Communicate With Another Class Through Email • Communicate With an Expert or a Significant Person • Gather Data for Use in a Class Project • Take an Internet Excursion for a Science, Social Studies or Language Arts Unit • Follow an Online Expedition or Trip
- 4. Instructional Uses of the Internet for Elementary Age Students • • • • • Read Works Written by Other Children Read for Information about Current Events Read Fiction Written for Children Take a Virtual Field Trip with Your Class Guide Students in Researching Information from the Internet • Join an Existing Online Project • Create Your Own Online Project back
- 5. Guidlines for Planning Students Internet Experiences • Become comfortable with the internet • Select appropriate web sites. • Set a clear objective / outcome for what you expect the students to learn from this experience. -(What is the student learning?) • Reflect on how the use of the technology/ Internet will enhance the achievement of the outcome. -(What does the technology offer that makes it a good tool for this objective?) • Preview all web sites carefully.
- 6. Guidlines for Planning Students Internet Experiences • Decide if this experience would be most effective as a large group presentation, accessed directly by students, or as a combination of both. • Make a bookmark list of the site or sites you will be using in the lesson and save them as a bookmark file in the global shared folder. • Prepare a graphic organizer, rubric, or set of directions for students. • Prepare students for what they will be learning and what will be expected of them. • Plan for how you will assess mastery of the objective. back
- 7. Strategies and Applications for the One Computer Classroom • Use the Computer as Teacher Tool • Use the Computer as Multi-Media Chalk Board or Flip Chart • Have Students use the Computer as a Tool for Individual Input as Part of a Larger Group or Class Project • Use the Computer as Learning Center or Station • Use the Computer as Cooperative Learning Tool • Have Students Use the Computer to do Individual Work for Practice or Assessment back
- 8. Interactive Projects and Classroom Applications • Join an Existing Online Project • Create Your Own Online Project • Communicate with other Teachers back
- 9. Students start pages • One of the simplest ways to guide students • Annotated with specific directions or objectives for use. • Constructed through special software designed for web page construction • Students access these start pages under adult supervision with the understanding of the school's acceptable use policy in which they have agreed to appropriate standards for back Internet use.
- 10. Teacher Resources A number of sites that have collected educational resources have begun to add a search engine feature that allows you to search the collected sites according to a specific topic. These sites are extremely useful and time-saving for teachers.
- 11. Teacher Resources Examples of educational search engines. • • • • Educational Search Engines Educational Web Site Collections Internet Lesson Plans Reference Sites for Elementary Students