How can I use the internet to support my teaching and students' learning?
How can I ensure responsible and appropriate use of the internet?
This module has made me look at using the internet more in my Kansas Day unit. I would like to have my students use e-mail to correspond with someone at the Kansas State Historical Society. Hopefully this person will be able to give us information about Indians found in Kansas.
To ensure responsible and appropriate use of the internet I will discuss the computer use contract with my students. Usually it is something that I have the parents discuss with their students. A lot of times the parents just tell their child to sign on the line and don't really discuss it with their child, so if I discuss it with the students they should all understand the things we should and shouldn't do on the school computers. Since I teach 1st grade I need to make sure that any site I send my students to is safe for them. I usually don't allow them to just "surf the web." I usually have the web site(s) they are supposed to go to in a word document or in the favorites list on the computer. This way I have a little more control over where they are going on the web.
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I think it would be wonderful for the students to correspond with someone from the Kansas Sate Historical Society. You could e-mail or you could set up a blog and have the students communicate that way.
The responsible use of the Internet can usually be addressed at your grade level with monitoring and by lining up activities for the students before they go to the computer. I really like the word document idea.
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