Week 3. Searching the web

Information Literacy: An Outline

by James Green:

5w's and 1h

We should ask ourselves these six questions:

Who has written this website?

What is it about? Is it factual? What do you know by reading the url?

When was the site last updated? Is it recent enough to be valid?

Where does this information come from? Where does this site link to?

Why will this information be useful? Why has the author written this?

How good is the Information?

Integrating the web, week 2

Another handful of good advice:

1. The web site should be examined before the use as any other teaching resources.
2. Students should work in the Internet for no longer than 20 minutes per lesson.
3. A teacher should practise the language first.
4. Make sure your students know how to navigate around the website.
5. Give students links to two websites where the students could carry out their research.

Week 2

How to select a useful educational site:

1. Decide what you want it for.

2. Explore both sites: ending with .org and .com There are free resources on commercial sites, too.

3. Try to find who is the author and publisher of the site.

4. Check if the material provides everything that is needed.

5. Be sure if the site is easy to use.

Week 1

Last week we have thought about advantages and disadvantages of learning technologies. On the one hand, they are interactive, multimedia, authentic, promote independent learning, etc. On the other hand, using LT at the lesson may cause distraction, student objections, integration problems (syllabus integration, lesson integration)

The vast majority of our students and learners have mobile devices of some sort and they spend most of their time interacting with these handheld appliances than you would ever imagine. What use can we take of it as teachers? Can teachers take any use of it? I like Nik Peachey's investigation in digital skills of teachers in the 21st century:

"I've just been brainstorming digital skills that I believe are required by teachers in the 21st Century. So far I've come up with 45 of them.

What's striking for me about this is:

• few of these skills will have been taught to anyone who trained as a teacher longer than 5 years ago.
• few of these skills are being taught to teachers training now.
• the 21st century teacher needs to be a pretty amazingly skilled professional."

What technology tools are you using in the classroom? What are the skills and literacies that you are addressing?

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