The Networked Student
This is a great video on a general overview of how a teacher can use technology to revolutionalize how students access and interact with information. Instead of a text book, students are expected to create their own text book, and interact with the creators of the writers of the various blogs and sites that make up the body of information they create.
Perhaps you’ll see a lot of things that you are already doing in your classroom in this video. Hopefully this video will inspire you to take technology in your classroom to the next level. Instead of adding a little technology in, let the technology completely change the way you “do class”. It’s not about requiring students to create a powerpoint every now and then, it’s about introducing them to a global, constantly changing body of knowledge that hopefully, they’ll utilize for the rest of thier lives.


If you are asking students to do Web search, I’m wondering if you’re worried about what kind of results they’ll get? Are you teaching them how to filter good and bad and credible information? I’ve been using this search engine, SweetSearch, which I’ve found in most cases delivers better quality than others….they say that they screen results based on professional research…not sure how, but might be worth a try