In chapter 5 it talks about how teachers and students can
critically research and evaluate the Internet as a teaching and learning
environment. Today we see that the search for education knowledge increasingly
features the Internet. Internet can be
used by teachers professionally and service students academically. So it is
very important for us to teach the students where to get their information and
what sites are safe to use. We can first teach students to recognize the URL-
.com, .org, .gov, .net and then give them some educational preselected sites to
access. There’s always that concern for plagiarism and it suggests in the
chapter for teachers to give assignments that cannot be plagiarized, for
example allow students to use the internet to gather information but tell them
to produce their own original research that was not copied from online. And
also teach them about quoting, to quote correctly and effectively. Skills of
locating, evaluating, and using information in a computer environment are
defined as information literacy and media literacy. Without us realizing we are
constantly analyzing and evaluating the media this includes print.
I always use the Internet to find information almost all the
time. I can’t help it; it’s so convenient and fast. I prefer using Google, it’s
my main search engine window. I don’t know if it’s just me but I don’t like
using other search engines like Internet Explorer, Bing, and etc. because I
feel as though Google is more organized and maybe it’s simply because I’m so
used to how Google is laid out. Using the Internet can be dangerous because of plagiarism
and unsafe sites but for the most part I think it’s so useful. It’s bigger than
we can imagine all the information and sources available on the Internet, its
actually quite incredible that we live in this generation where we can access
information with a click/tap of our fingers.
1.
What do you think about reading online and it’s
outcome on students today?
2.
Have you used or suggested educational sites to
your students or colleagues? Which ones did you find most useful?
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