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Internet IntegrationOne important goal of EDSITEment
is to help educators integrate the Internet as a standard classroom resource.
Once you tap into this seemingly boundless source of ideas, new experiences, and
information, you will recognize that it holds a unique potential for inspiring
real intellectual curiosity in your students and for stimulating multidimensional
intellectual growth. You can use the Internet
to: - Create increased sharing of the responsibility
for learning among students and teachers.
- Engage
students in authentic tasks, designed to help them understand how scholars, for
example, use primary materials to interpret events or human interaction or expressions.
- Encourage students to work in teams, sparking questions
and ideas off of each other, offering them an experience similar to modern-day
practices in the workplace.
- Enhance students'
natural curiosity and love of exploration.
- Stimulate
analytical and synthetic thinking.
- Train students
to evaluate primary materials, develop and defend hypotheses with evidence, and
comprehend and interpret texts and ideas.
- Teach
analysis of maps, pictures, and other visual representations to understand people,
places, environments, and cultures.
- Enhance foreign
language learning by providing easily accessible authentic language and cultural
materials.
- Enhance written expressions as students
seek to communicate with each other and to "publish" their ideas on
web pages of their own.
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