Participation Permission Form
Online Tools To Be Used
Objectives
After The 10th Lesson
There
is no doubt that technology has altered the educational system in British
Columbia and the way educators teach their students. Technology has enhanced
the potential learning of students because technology has allowed greater
access to information and resources. Educators have taken advantage of
technology in ways that benefit learning, by aligning instructional activities
with the Web 2.0 applications (Light and Polin, 2010). Batchelor (2011) pointed out that when
students are given opportunities to use technology for a valid educational
purpose, student learning and performance improved because they were more
engaged in the activities. As students were more apt to engage in lessons that
used web 2.0 tools (Barr and Masters, 2009), the lessons for this online unit
of study were designed to present the content in an entertaining style that
would allow students to represent their learning using a variety of interactive
web 2.0 tools. The intent was to enrich the lessons with interactive Web 2.0
tools in an effort to engage the students in a self-directed fashion (van Hamel
2011). Thus, there is a need for educators to allow their students to use the
Internet as a learning tool and use Web 2.0 tools to engage students in their
learning about online safety.
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S. & Masters, J. (2009). Young children online: e-learning in a social
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Light,
D., & Polin, D. (2010). Integrating web 2.0 tools in the classroom:
Changing the culture of learning.
Center for Children and Technology, Retrieved from
http://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED543171.pdf
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Hamel, A. (2011). The privacy piece: Report on privacy competencies in digital
literacy programs
in Canada, Britain, Australia, America, and brazil.Ottawa, Ontario: Media
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