PROMPT 5

A paragraph on your views about using the Internet to support student research. When is it useful? Not useful? Look to Chapter 3 for ideas and inspiration.A paragraph on other ways you might use web-based resources to support student learning. Share a few resources that are of interest to you. Use your book and online resources.A paragraph on your concerns about being a teacher who supervises students in a technology environment. Be sure to mention the age/grade level of your students.

There are various other ways students and teachers could use web-based resources to support learning. Students can use virtual libraries to research topics, and use online dictionaries and school board approved sites to research topics. Additionally, grade book online would be a fundamental web resource because it would allow students and parents to check announcements and grades online. At my high school it was called "pinnacle" and students could access it to check test grades and quiz scores.

I think using the internet to support student research is an excellent way to give kids a general idea of the topic or assignment they are learning about. Helpful sites are those such as search engines [Google] , encyclopedias, and online newspaper. There is information, however, online that is not correct or appropriate and is not useful for students and should be avoided.


At the grade level I want to teach, 7th grade where the age levels range from 12- 13, I think I will have to be pretty careful about supervising students in an technological environment. At this age the students will probably be inclined to look at more inappropriate things on the internet and will have more advanced assignments than children in the younger grade levels, so they might be more inclined to rely on web information as resources. The key thing to monitor when supervising the students is that they know what is and is not appropriate for the classroom.