Tuesday, August 24, 2010

Internet in the Classroom

The Web and the Classroom Podcast

Visual literacy through technology is very important for today’s classroom. Most of the research in today’s world is done through the internet, both positively and negatively. We should use many of these same methods since this is the way that the students will learn in the future. This has impacted the teaching profession by causing an evolution of ideas about modern pedagogy in which the idea of standing in front of a classroom and lecturing is now just a thing of the past.
The use of visual-thinking strategies can help students figure out processes and connect concepts throughout their education. Thinking Maps are a major form of visual-thinking strategy that allow students to create individualized, graphic organizer style tools to sort through different types of data. The internet can be very helpful with this type of tool since it will help students find the research that they may need to connect the concepts of the content area.

These main forms of Thinking Maps can be used for any visual-thinking strategy.

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