1. Now that I have access to the Web, how can I use it effectively?
As a teacher, I can use the Web to help my students learn to conduct meaningful research and evaluate the material to determine it's usefulness to the assignment. Students can use the Web to communicate with experts or other students from anywhere around the world, allowing them to have the most accurate and up-to-date information. The Web is an incredible information tool that students can learn to use to find any bit of data and even post their own understandings and products.
2. How do I manage students' use of the Web in my class?
The first thing you can do to manage student use of the Web is to create restrictions to what sites that they can visit. This can be fallible, however, and so, as a teacher, you can create a list or database of sites that you have seen and approve of to give to your students. You can also arrange for them to only use child-friendly search engines, such as www.yahooligans.com. To keep an eye on any student that may stray from the task at hand, a teacher can put her or his desk behind the students' desks so that it is easy to see all of the screens and what sites they are visiting.
3. Which features of the Web do I use?
The main features that will probably be in use in a classroom will be email for communicating with students and their parents; and the internet for searching and using search engines to conduct research. You can also use the Web to share documents with colleagues, parents, and students in other classes anywhere in the world. Video conferencing is a good tool to allow students to discuss their research and lessons with other students or experts in that field of study. Using your school's website to post information about what is going on in your classroom in another good way of making sure that parents are informed and involved in their child's education.
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