Thursday, October 9, 2008
Week 6 - Chapter 3
In my area, the Internet and the World Wide Web has made a nominal impact on K-12 education. Sure teachers use it for research more than going to the library, but as far as use in the classroom with the students, not much change. Higher education is using it for distance learning and administration, and college students rather use the web for research instead of the library even though some of the sites are not good sources for research. Adult education has probablly been impacted the most so far, particularly the military and business training. For the education areas to be impacted in a significant way, more technology classes are going to have to be taught and cover a broader area than just Micro Soft Office. Teachers can not teach their students to use the web when they themselves do not really know how to utilize it. As of right now, the Internet and the WWW is not a major influence on the way instruction is presented to learniers in K-12 education, and only in a limited way in higher education. I would like to see this change; that is one of the reasons I registered for this degree.
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I think that in some areas of education there are some impovements in integrating the Internet and WWW, but not many. One class I teach is home maintenance and in part of the year I will demonstrate different skills and the students will practice them. For the students that still don't get it or were absent, I have a couple of websites that have instructional videos that help them. So there are some small areas like this that use the Internet. I agree though that there is a lot of room for improvement.
I agree that the internet does not have a major influence on the way instruction is presented to learners in grades K-12. However, after reading some of our classmates reflections I see that the internet does not play a major role in my district, but there are some schools where internet based instruction in on the rise. With the usage of the internet rapidly growing, it would be great if all district could afford to allow students to take at least one class on-line, so that when they enter college they would not be in such a technology shock.
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