Students Online - What Works?

Judy Beal

Effective Play - Learning by playing - village children
Guiding your own learning - net navigation
Enjoying and interacting with every learning experience
- a journey of giraffes
Internet in Classrooms
Strategies - Google a dog OR a rhino
Source / Information Literacy
Teachers searching - Using the Internet
Backflip
Duck / Red / Zoo
Connecting - why share?

Animal photos - credit Donna!

Why? - Visual and Multimedia savvy students - the internet is too big for kids especially early years students but also many primary aged students and teachers for that matter
What? - 1. Still important to analyse web pages (tools and resources) and explicitly teach information literacy / accuracy of sources - any idiot can publish a page on the internet
2. Teachers need to search first and need to have effective search skills - teaching the teachers - teachers sharing their searching - backflip
3. Navigating teacher choices - see Duck / Red / Zoo above
What next? - connecting to communities - real people, real answers, real tasks - the Discovery network experience - people on your wavelength