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Classroom Internet Integration

One 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.