Teaching and the Internet
Thought for the Day
"It gets more like the future every day."
Beckie Randall
Alvin Toffler wrote a book in the early 1970s called Future Shock. In it he described what he called the "acceleration in the rate of change." Technology in general, and computing technology in particular, is bringing about increasingly rapid and broad-sweeping change in our world. The World Wide Web is an icon or symbol of that change, bringing about an explosion of knowledge availability, access and use. The breakneck speed of change makes it difficult for many constituents of our global society to keep up. In the United States we are privileged to be in the position of leading the world in the proliferation of the computing infrastructure that is necessary to take advantage of what the World Wide Web has to offer. More and more homes, and the children in them, are turning to the Web for information across the spectrum of knowledge to meet their day-to-day needs. We teachers especially thus need to understand how the Web works since we are the ones charged with the responsibility of guiding children to a future which is happening every day.
Internet Workshop Outline
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