Tree octopus - what a great concept - I will definitely be using that in my class :) 49 out of 50 students in middle school believing the site... interesting, definitely scary and shows the need for teachers to explicitly teach critical literacy skills. It was interesting that in America they have the same issues - lack of time, lack of professional development for all teachers, too much focus on what teachers perceive to be more staight forward when it comes to assessment. I also found it interesting when the presenter spoke about demands on students when negotiating digital material. The comment about being able to purchase an edu domain name would make some teachers think twice about what they are telling their students as well. Jennifer Gregory @ Westmead
It is more than just using filters or URLs to help students critically read and navigate the digital world. It is not just about using technology for the sake of using it and trying to squeeze it into a crowed curriculum. Rather about educating teachers on the resources and how to use them to approach curriculum topics in new ways that embrace the New Literacies. It is not just about the physical mechanics of these tools, but enabling students to be crtitical users.
I think it shows the need to rethink how as a teacher I approach teaching.
I was interested to hear that NCLB has had the effect of making teachers feel that they don't have time to teach this sort of thing. This sort of thing should be embedded into the curriculum. More computers and less teachers being trained to guide students is a worrying statistic. How will students become critical users?
I find it concerning that after watching this video and finding that the sights that I thought were fairly safe because of their addresses may not only contain things that are not true but maybe completely false. Also interesting to note that teachers in the US are like us- time poor with minimal time to address these issues which are often a large part of our students lives.
At our school we spend a fair bit of time teaching cyber safety but our teaching of suitable research sites is largely limited to using sites with .gov; .org or .edu. We also set up library data bases of suitable material.
Some assignments require the students to use a set number of print book resources to increase validity.
I don't think this adequately addresses the issue of teaching the students to be able to critically appraise the information they are exposed to. This is especially true if .edu sites are not as valid as we previously thought. The internet exists and is not going to go away. We need to teach the students strategies for using it and we need to learn them ourselves.
I will be showing this site to my students. (Kerena)
Tree octopus - what a great concept - I will definitely be using that in my class :)
ReplyDelete49 out of 50 students in middle school believing the site... interesting, definitely scary and shows the need for teachers to explicitly teach critical literacy skills. It was interesting that in America they have the same issues - lack of time, lack of professional development for all teachers, too much focus on what teachers perceive to be more staight forward when it comes to assessment. I also found it interesting when the presenter spoke about demands on students when negotiating digital material. The comment about being able to purchase an edu domain name would make some teachers think twice about what they are telling their students as well.
Jennifer Gregory @ Westmead
It is more than just using filters or URLs to help students critically read and navigate the digital world. It is not just about using technology for the sake of using it and trying to squeeze it into a crowed curriculum. Rather about educating teachers on the resources and how to use them to approach curriculum topics in new ways that embrace the New Literacies.
ReplyDeleteIt is not just about the physical mechanics of these tools, but enabling students to be crtitical users.
I think it shows the need to rethink how as a teacher I approach teaching.
I was interested to hear that NCLB has had the effect of making teachers feel that they don't have time to teach this sort of thing. This sort of thing should be embedded into the curriculum. More computers and less teachers being trained to guide students is a worrying statistic. How will students become critical users?
ReplyDeleteI find it concerning that after watching this video and finding that the sights that I thought were fairly safe because of their addresses may not only contain things that are not true but maybe completely false. Also interesting to note that teachers in the US are like us- time poor with minimal time to address these issues which are often a large part of our students lives.
ReplyDeleteAt our school we spend a fair bit of time teaching cyber safety but our teaching of suitable research sites is largely limited to using sites with .gov; .org or .edu. We also set up library data bases of suitable material.
ReplyDeleteSome assignments require the students to use a set number of print book resources to increase validity.
I don't think this adequately addresses the issue of teaching the students to be able to critically appraise the information they are exposed to. This is especially true if .edu sites are not as valid as we previously thought. The internet exists and is not going to go away. We need to teach the students strategies for using it and we need to learn them ourselves.
I will be showing this site to my students.
(Kerena)