5 Reasons to Integrate the Internet into Your Classroom
Posted by Amanda Kenuam on Fri, Feb 12, 2010
Aside from the engagement factor, there are many benefits to meaningfully incorporating web-based instructional activities like those listed in 3 Types of Web-Based Instructional Activities (w/examples).
5 Reasons to Integrate the Internet into Your Classroom:
- It supports student research and information literacy skills.
- It provides an audience and thus motivation for writing.
- Students can visually see and learn things from outside the scope of their classroom and community.
- Students develop and enhance collaboration skills similar to those they will use in college and the workforce.
- It prepares students for our global society by providing multicultural experiences and interactions.
Do you integrate the Internet in your classroom? What has been most successful, most challenging? Please share!
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Read more about using technology to support teaching for understanding in Education Technology Articles from Learning Today.