The Internet and the World Wide Web for Teachers

by Eugene F. Provenzo

Reviewed by Michelle Meyer

Guide to using Internet and Web for teachers

Show remarkable ways technology can transform education

Author’s Purpose

Did he realize his purpose?

Intended Audience

No experience

“Reasonably high level of computer literacy”

Did he reach his intended audience?

Who would be a good audience?

People of my parents’ generation

“Digital immigrants” (vs. “Digital Natives”)

Young students just starting out in technology

Anyone who’s never surfed the Web

My Suggestion

Add a detailed technology lesson plan at the end of each chapter that integrates one or some of the resources introduced in that chapter into a core subject area of the curriculum.

This simple addition would greatly enhance the educational value for teachers.

History of Internet and Web

Internet 1960s military computer scientists 1969 experimental ARPANET system 1972 e-mail programs sent for first time 1980s National Science Foundation set up super-computing

centers for high-speed access across the country

World Wide Web Tim Berners-Lee, a scientist working in Switzerland

Wanted a computer-based communications system that would make it easier for scientists to communicate with each other

envisioned Web as a place where information could be easily ADDED

1990 wrote first Web software and put it on the Internet

Requirements for the “New Professional Teacher”

(NCATE – National Council for the Accreditation of Teacher Education)

New UnderstandingsNew ApproachesNew RolesNew Forms of Professional DevelopmentNew Attitudes

Some other useful/interesting links:

Technology Standards for Teachers and Students http://cnets.iste.org/students/s_stands.html

How Many People on the Net http://www.glreach.com/globstats/index.php3

Comparing Search Engines http://www.searchengineshowdown.com

Netiquette http://www.iwillfollow.com/email.htm

The best part…

The entire text is online at:

http://www.ablongman.com/provenzo2e

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Conclusion

“In many ways, introducing you to this technology is like providing an introduction to a library…The quality of what you get out of a library will only be as good as the skills you bring to using it.” (p. 114)