Digital Blog #4 D

Digital Blog D chapter 5

First, Teachers and students have a constant need for accurate, interesting, and relevant educational information. Information enables teachers to develop lively curricula, update academic knowledge, and answer student questions. Students use information to write papers and essays, prepare for exams, develop personal talents, and propel their quest for knowledge. Information is the currency of learning in schools. Information can be found throughout libraries, reading books and magazines, taking classes, and attending conferences and presentations; and now the internet is the has become one of the biggest sources when searching for information and the number one source for adults when searching for information on restaurants, local business, housing, schools, and jobs. By 2010, the Internet had “surpassed newspapers and radio in popularity as a news platform on a typical day and now ranks just behind TV” ( Purcell, Rainie, Mitchell, Rosenstiel, & Olmstead, 2010, p. 2). Teachers use the internet to teach important educational information and students learn academically.  Now days all the schools and classrooms have access to internet based resources, and unfortunately the low-income areas do not have the same high-speed broad-brand services. (US Dept of Commerce, 2012).

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Second, making sure we know how to search is very important, the last thing we need is to look for information through the wrong websites.  For example; if I am searching on how to make play dough for a preschool class, the internet can give search results from making it with flour, salt and water to flour, boiling water, food coloring, oil etc etc. and obviously I will use what’s easier and safer for preschool children. It’s important to make sure we teach our students to follow strategies and learning how to search and find information correctly.

Third, knowing how to evaluate the online information and making sure it’s the correct information we are searching for since, the search engine doesn’t know who is behind it, such as a child or an adult. Evaluating the information can go hand in hand with knowing how to use the search engine, therefore, we’re not in doubt when using the websites and much less, use the correct information in which we will be using for either teaching students and/or completing an assignment.

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In conclusion, it is very important to not only know how to search and how to evaluate a website, but to use the internet for literacy as well, therefore it will help by learning how type, search and read the information researched. Internet use has gained popularity, since it is much more convenient, especially to those who have the resources to do so. 

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Resource(s)

Maloy, Robert, Verock-O’Loughlin,Ruth-Ellen, Edwards, Sharon A., and Woolf, Beverly Park (2013). Transforming Learning with New Technologies. 2nd Edition. Boston, MA: Pearson Education, Inc.

 Learning About Earth Day: Developing Internet. (2011, November 25). Retrieved February 3, 2015, from http://learning about earth day/

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