Reading a post on Wikipedia, I found many examples of the internet as a tool for education. In this post, I will discuss three of the examples that I found to be great tools for education at all levels.
The first example showed me how useful the internet could be for primary education. If a sixth grader was doing research on weather patterns in Spain, why not contact someone who is in Spain? Students are not limited to the encyclopedias or news papers, but on-line they can look up real time weather or weather patterns past and future.
The article also introduced the idea of connecting classrooms, which connects different classrooms from different geographic regions to learn about culture, geography and different points of view. I can imagine the classrooms utilizing Skype with a classroom across the globe and can see where they live, observe their culture and discuss differences with the other classroom.
A third area that I would have appreciated when going for my undergrad degree would be Collaborative Projects. This is something I use today in my job. Having a place to share documents between team members, having version control and date/time/user stamps on documents is invaluable data in and of itself. Back in the day, we traded floppy disks and if a deadline wasn’t met, you had no confirmation of whose piece wasn’t done or when it was provided to the team lead.
The more I read on the topic of internet and education, the more I learn and the older I feel!!! When I went to UML for my bachelor degree…..
http://wik.ed.uiuc.edu/index.php/Social_Networking_-_EPS_415
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