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Where
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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:
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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
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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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