Web literacy is very important in all schools. Schools should start teaching web literacy, but I think computer time should be limited and monitered closely. I think that introducing younger childen into social networks such as twitter and facebook is not a good idea because it is used more by older students. As stated in the article sometimes schools try and block websites that they perfer students not to use such as facebook and twitter, but students always find a way around things like that. Web literacy will not be a hard subject to cover because most students know from exploring at home that many things about urls. Therefore, they only need guidance on small things such as punctuation and the ending codes. The three pillars essential for web literature: purposeful search, effective organization and collababoration, and sharing and making sense of information are good guidelines to teach web literacy because it hits the most important things about using the web. Claboration and effective organization is extremely important for students such as Zach because if it had been taught he could have been able to realize the truth within the article he read. Using a hash tag to find similar topics and ideas is a smart way to explain how to recieve more information. As stated before, I do not feel like children should be introduced to websites such as twitter even if it is a school account.
Kabria, I do agree that the Internet should be limited in the school systems and I also believe that students should still learn how to look up information the old fashion way, by using books. Everything is at a child's fingertips when they have access to the Internet and I believe that it can make students lazy and think less about certain topics. On the flip side, it can also engage and encourage students. I do believe that web literacy should be taught more because it changes so much and so fast. It definitely needs close monitoring and available in rational periods of time.
ReplyDeleteI agree with both Kabria and Ashlie! Technology is very important in life today and I think that everyone should know how to use it and use it appropriately. I also believe that using books to look up information is a way of knowing that all the information is true.
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