How do you need to grow or change your practice to effectively teach online literacy?
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Effective teaching begins with consistent, on-going and effective training. The resources must also be available to the teachers as well as the students. Teachers must be willing to take extra risks, change practices, be flexible and accept mistakes (and technological dead-ends). Online literacy also requires TIME provided to the teacher as well as the students (planning time, set-up and technology difficulties, etc).
I will need time to really explore what on-line literacy would look like in my classroom. I would need to be convinced that it is worthwhile to take time away from reading "good literature" in order to do this. I would need help integrating it in with my current curriculum.
We need experience and hardware. First, teachers need plenty of experience searching the internet effectively and analyzing the quality of the sites chosen. Just as important is having the hardware to support a classroom's efforts to teach these skills to all the kids.
This from the immigrant dinosaurs- We would need to embrace the reality and really open our minds to the necessity of teaching reading comprehension and the skills necessary to wade through the internet. We need to learn how to incorporate the learning into what we already teach and not make it "one more thing." We would have to learn how to fix problems as they occur and there would have to be enough new and updated computers for each class.
I personally need the time, training and technology to be able to teach online literacy. I have had the experience of getting training on a program, for example, Hyperstudio, but then when I go to try and do something with students, it does not work on the computers available, a minor glitch infers to the extent of frustration for both me and the students. The lack of application and practice makes me forget what I had learned, and then the technology changes and a whole new thing comes out... Yikes!
We do not have access to reliable technology or time to learn and practice it properly.
There is no question in my mind that on-line sources, with vivid, up-to-date content are crucial to say, the study of African culture. I would like to see our children effectively use the net as another research resource--how to search, distill, document. This is a process they will use throughout their school career. We should consider grade-level expectations for continuity.
needs: * training on what programs are out there/ how to use them * have time to plan instruction that incorporates this technology * support of administrators/ other teachers (share ideas/money) * A separate technology trainer at each school (not just the librarian)
In order to grow and change our practice to effectively teach online literacy, we need to not only receive training and experience, but sustain the learning and promote it to mastery. We also need to keep current with specific sites to align standards and curriculum, most likely facilitated or co-facilitated by school media specialist, so that it' not viewed as an add-on. And we need to address our perceptions about what is considered "good literature."
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Effective teaching begins with consistent, on-going and effective training. The resources must also be available to the teachers as well as the students. Teachers must be willing to take extra risks, change practices, be flexible and accept mistakes (and technological dead-ends). Online literacy also requires TIME provided to the teacher as well as the students (planning time, set-up and technology difficulties, etc).
I will need time to really explore what on-line literacy would look like in my classroom. I would need to be convinced that it is worthwhile to take time away from reading "good literature" in order to do this. I would need help integrating it in with my current curriculum.
We need experience and hardware. First, teachers need plenty of experience searching the internet effectively and analyzing the quality of the sites chosen. Just as important is having the hardware to support a classroom's efforts to teach these skills to all the kids.
This from the immigrant dinosaurs-
We would need to embrace the reality and really open our minds to the necessity of teaching reading comprehension and the skills necessary to wade through the internet. We need to learn how to incorporate the learning into what we already teach and not make it "one more thing." We would have to learn how to fix problems as they occur and there would have to be enough new and updated computers for each class.
I personally need the time, training and technology to be able to teach online literacy. I have had the experience of getting training on a program, for example, Hyperstudio, but then when I go to try and do something with students, it does not work on the computers available, a minor glitch infers to the extent of frustration for both me and the students. The lack of application and practice makes me forget what I had learned, and then the technology changes and a whole new thing comes out... Yikes!
We do not have access to reliable technology or time to learn and practice it properly.
There is no question in my mind that on-line sources, with vivid, up-to-date content are crucial to say, the study of African culture. I would like to see our children effectively use the net as another research resource--how to search, distill, document. This is a process they will use throughout their school career. We should consider grade-level expectations for continuity.
We need first rate support! This is crucial to teacher and student success!
needs:
* training on what programs are out there/ how to use them
* have time to plan instruction that incorporates this technology
* support of administrators/ other teachers (share ideas/money)
* A separate technology trainer at each school (not just the librarian)
In order to grow and change our practice to effectively teach online literacy, we need to not only receive training and experience, but sustain the learning and promote it to mastery. We also need to keep current with specific sites to align standards and curriculum, most likely facilitated or co-facilitated by school media specialist, so that it' not viewed as an add-on. And we need to address our perceptions about what is considered "good literature."
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