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Ch. 12 Notes
Chapter Twelve
Education and the Net
The internet and distance education can level the field for students because distance, personal appearance, physical disabilities, and special needs are not or are less important. This type of technology either eradicates the shortcomings or extends the users capabilities. Learning can take place anywhere, anytime, with anyone.
Evaluation of Internet Information
CRAPP Test: (Currency, Reliability, Authority, Purpose, Point of View)
Integrating net based tools into curriculum:
1. Email:
Education and the Net
The internet and distance education can level the field for students because distance, personal appearance, physical disabilities, and special needs are not or are less important. This type of technology either eradicates the shortcomings or extends the users capabilities. Learning can take place anywhere, anytime, with anyone.
Evaluation of Internet Information
CRAPP Test: (Currency, Reliability, Authority, Purpose, Point of View)
Integrating net based tools into curriculum:
1. Email:
- Can communicate with teachers, add attachments.
- “Key-pals” (epals.com)
- Writing tool
- Research/Info retrieval
- Communication tool w/ experts
- Blogs/Wikis. Social collaborative tools
- Games/Entertainment
- Augment Learning - Learn Alberta Username: LPS22 Password: 8441
- My Space
- Google Docs
- Smart phones
- Texting
- Wordle
- Mixbook
- Glogster
- Animoto
- Bubbl
- MindMeister
- Mixbook
- Flickr
- SlideShare
- StickyBits
- VoiceThread
- Webs.com
- WikiSpaces
- Zoho
Cyber Safety
How STRONG is your #&*! Password?!
How I'd Hack Your Weak Password offers tips on how to make your password stronger. If you are using any of these top 10 commonly used passwords, stop now!
Location Location LocationHow I'd Hack Your Weak Password offers tips on how to make your password stronger. If you are using any of these top 10 commonly used passwords, stop now!
- Your partner, child, or pet's name, possibly followed by a 0 or 1 (because they're always making you use a number, aren't they?)
- The last 4 digits of your social security number.
- 123 or 1234 or 123456.
- "password"
- Your city, or college, football team name.
- Date of birth – yours, your partner's or your child's.
- "god"
- "letmein"
- "money"
- "love"
Please Rob Me raises awareness on the perils of location-awareness apps like Twitter, Google Buzz, and Facebook. They say that...
The danger is publicly telling people where you are. This is because it leaves one place you're definitely not... home.Cyber Safety in the Classroom
These websites have a lot of good info for K-12 teachers, including games, research, and lesson plans on media violence, privacy, copyright, security, and more:
Media Awareness Network, a Canadian non-profit organization
Stay Safe Online from the National Cyber Security Alliance
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Fact of Folly?
Fact or Folly is part of the Media Awareness Network. It offers K-12 teachers some great resources, games, and lesson plans on:
Also, find more on evaluating info on the Library Education Guide.
- evaluating online information
- copyright
- internet safety
- privacy
Also, find more on evaluating info on the Library Education Guide.
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Ch. 11 Notes
Chapter Eleven - Learning with Internet Tools
The Internet
• A collection of computers and computer networks on a global level
• ARPAnet: exchange of ideas and information
• The internet is as important to human history as the Gutenberg Bible (printing press).
• The internet was originally intended to help with the free exchange of ideas and info in a military and scientific context.
Internet Pros:
o Access any information anywhere, anytime
o Access to entertainment
o Links people/communicate
o Primary source material
o Convenient/Speed
o Makes things easier when it works.
o Increases Efficiency
o Awareness – global
o Greener
o Can buy anything
Internet Cons:
o Have to be really specific in searches
o Very little privacy and secrecy
o Distracting/addicting
o Too much information can be overwhelming
o Information accuracy (CRAP test)
o Crime
o Viruses Spam, etc.
o Deception
o Lazy/Impersonal
• The internet is not the WWW. Internet is the roadway, WWW is the car.
• Web browser (Internet Explorer, Safari, Opera, etc): allows you to get onto the highway. Software that decode *html/htm. (Hypertext Mark-up Language)
• Web Pages have a unique address eg. www.facebook.com
• URL: Uniform Resource Locator (an address).
• http: (comes before the URL) hypertext transfer protocol.
• Index page is the homepage (.htm)
The Internet
• A collection of computers and computer networks on a global level
• ARPAnet: exchange of ideas and information
• The internet is as important to human history as the Gutenberg Bible (printing press).
• The internet was originally intended to help with the free exchange of ideas and info in a military and scientific context.
Internet Pros:
o Access any information anywhere, anytime
o Access to entertainment
o Links people/communicate
o Primary source material
o Convenient/Speed
o Makes things easier when it works.
o Increases Efficiency
o Awareness – global
o Greener
o Can buy anything
Internet Cons:
o Have to be really specific in searches
o Very little privacy and secrecy
o Distracting/addicting
o Too much information can be overwhelming
o Information accuracy (CRAP test)
o Crime
o Viruses Spam, etc.
o Deception
o Lazy/Impersonal
• The internet is not the WWW. Internet is the roadway, WWW is the car.
• Web browser (Internet Explorer, Safari, Opera, etc): allows you to get onto the highway. Software that decode *html/htm. (Hypertext Mark-up Language)
• Web Pages have a unique address eg. www.facebook.com
• URL: Uniform Resource Locator (an address).
• http: (comes before the URL) hypertext transfer protocol.
• Index page is the homepage (.htm)
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