Week 3’s learning was focusing on understanding the web. The worldwide web opens a huge door to classroom teaching and learning. The web provides both students and teachers with an opportunity to gather and develop a far broader research strategies other than what the usual classroom provides. The web is readily available in most schools as it becomes an easy source to use. The web nevertheless can provide some set backs as resources found on the internet are not always creditable and professional for educational sources. This can become a problem for students as they need to develop particular skills to notice that some sources are not always useful for what they are researching. In many circumstances students and both teachers become independent on the easy access to the web and never look at other resources that are also useful such as books and articles which are found away from the web.

As the weekly information presented to us states

“Education has also acknowledged the opportunities the www holds for teaching and learning in the twenty first century and the ability of the web to transform the “traditional” classroom into a virtual classroom where students can engage with an ever-increasing base of knowledge, resources and people.”

As a teacher the WWW (world wide web), provides ways for teachers to research lessons, look at syllabuses, and develop the technical ways that students know. Teachers can use the internet to conduct lessons as the net contains online learning in many schools.

It is extremely important that both students and teachers learn to develop skills which enable them to critically evaluate to quality of information found on the web for numerous reasons. As the web is so profound and contain so much information there are particular websites that can be used when finding creditable information.

When evaluating a website it needs mastery. Carefully apprising a web site is important to identity it’s purpose. For example students and both teachers need to consider the;

source

intended audience

date of publication

appearence

reputation