Hunting for Treasures -- presented by David Warlick
ClassWebs:
Cultivating the Internet for Learning

SchoolTech Expo
New York City

5-1-00
Presented by:
David Warlick
Raleigh, NC
david@landmark-project.com
http://landmark-project.com/dfw/
919-571-3292


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Statement of Problem:

The classroom is a puzzle, and there are already too many pieces to fit. Now we are asking teachers to integrate into that over stressed puzzle something as global and nebulus as the Internet.

On top of that, the Internet brings with it brand new problems:

  • Protect students from inappropriate and dangerous information
  • Evaluate the information brought into the classroom through the Internet
  • Protect student's identities on the Internet
  • Deal with the sometimes wasted instructional time that students spend surfing for information
  • Deal with brand new copyright and plagiarism issues

A Solution:

Teachers need to be able to shape the Internet, to mold it so that it fits into the puzzle of the classroom, and perhaps even serving as a mortar in the attempt to seamlessly bind other puzzle pieces together.

ClassWebs are web pages or sites created by teachers to help their students attain specific educational objectives. ClassWebs:

  • Proactively point the student in the direction of educationally appropriate Net resources
  • Provide for students a work space for conducting their activities, in many cases collaboratively with other students or experts
  • Provide a context for what the student is learning, integrating the task into the general educational expections and into real-world problems
  • Can be constructed more easily and in less time than it takes to prepare a paper work sheet

The ClassWeb Web Site -- http://landmark-project.com/classweb/