Rubrics:
A rubric is a detailed scoring guide for assessment, based on stated criteria. A rubric is a great way to let the students know exactly what it is you as the teacher is going to expect on an assignment. A rubric will also give the students the understanding of how their grade will be calculated. Rubrics can be used in any subject and in any grade. I have used them with my GT Kindergarten students.
Web Resources:
If you are using the web resource as a teaching tool then they certainly need to be evaluated. It is not an easy task to evaluate a web resource, unlike printed resources. If the teacher is going to let the students use the web resource for an assignment the teacher needs to make sure the site is creditable, otherwise the students will not get the correct information out of the lesson you are trying to teach them. I think it would be wise to teach the students how to find out if the website is a creditable source so in the future they will know what to trust on the net.
Web Site Evaluation Rubric:
Title: Star Fall
Curriculum Area: Students: PreK-2nd, Sp. Education, ELD, ELL, and ESL
URL: www.starfall.com
Learning Objective: To motivate children to read with phonics.
Ratings: Authority: 4 Currency: 4
Affiliation: 2 Design: 4
Purpose: 4 Objectivity: 4
Content: 4 Learning Process: 4
Audience: 4
Total: 34/36
Comment:
"To be successful in integrating technology, teachers must rethink and redesign activities and create new teaching and learning strategies as they actively integrate integrate technology across their curriculum."
This statement could not be more truer. Teachers have to take what they know and have used in the past and integrate technology into these lessons. It is our job as teachers to provide our students with what they will need to survive in the world. Since everything from cars to banking to entertainment revolves around technology teachers need to integrate technology across their curriculum.
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I agree with what you stated at the end of your Web Resources section. If we do not teach our students how to properly research material, then they will simply think that everything on the web is a credible source when we know that that is far from the truth. I'd be great if we could devote a good period of time to showing our students how to properly search the web for good resources.
ReplyDeleteI like the sentiment in your closing statement. Once teachers embrace technology and tie it in with their current base of knowledge then and only then will we truly arrive at a point where technology is fully integrated into education. We must prepare our students to compete in a global marketplace and the integration of technology is of paramount importance in this quest.
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