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Where We Are During the past few years we have seen enormous investments in technology in our schools both in terms of money for hardward and infrastructure and volunteer time in wiring our schools.  School systems are also beginning to invest in professional development for teachers and teachers are giving up valuable professional and personal time to attend staff development opportunities.

Still, many teachers, even those who have received training, are confounded by what exactly their students should be doing with computers and the Internet.  There are two important questions that we will be exploring in this online community, questions that I have begun to answer, but need your help to finish:

  • What can the technology do for us? Raw Materials for the Mind, published on Technology & Learning
  • Why is it so hard to adopt, adapt, and integrate the technology into our classrooms? Edited excerpt from an upcoming article on Class Webs
  • Put Your Web Site to Work, Published in Technology & Learning Magazine, September 2002

 

Our Task The Class Web online community has been established to provide a virtual environment where educators can address these issues of what and why, but perhaps even more importantly how -- and all within the context of teacher-constructed class webs.  Armed with skills and awareness, teachers can craft learning environments for their students that connect them to rich information, student and expert collaborators, and opportunities to express their knowledge and beliefs to authentic audiences.

Welcome
-- dave

Our Extended Task

In recent months, this online community has expanded it focus to include all forms of classroom web publishing, both instructional resources, and institutional sites (classroom web page). This comes from a recognition that making parents and the community partners in their children's education is critical to our success, and that the construction and maintainence of classroom web pages is an effective way to facilitate this partnership.

We also understand that reforming education toward more providing a service that is more relevant to our children's future will require the retelling of the education story. We need to reshape the image that people have of the classroom and what should be happening there to better teach our children to teach themselves.

 

 

 


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