Integrating Technology
Evaluating Websites
Sample of “Hoax Websites”
DO NOW:
Look at these websites and choose the most realistic and the most ridiculous. Write an three reasons for each of your choices and share them with your neighbor.
California's Velcro Crop
Dog Island
Driver's License Search
Fun Phone
First Genetics
Aluminum Foil Deflector Beanie
Amazing Cyber Photo
The Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus
Moon Hoax
Ban Dihydrogen Monoxide
Haggis Hunt
Ova Prima Foundation
McWhortle Enterprises, Inc.
Sellafield Zoo
MoonBeam Enterprise and the Lunar Travel Agency
"Facts About"
Facts about the American Civil War
Facts about Biomes of the World
Which is the "Real Site"
How could you use these in Lessons with your students?
Should we be concerned about hoax websites?
Evaluation Techniques and Resources
Intentionally Misleading Websites
Team Activity
Resources for Both Teacher and Student
Selection Criteria
The ICYouSee Guide to Critical Thinking About What You See on the Web
Why It's a Good Idea to Evaluate Web Sources
Evaluating Webpages - Experience Why It's Important
Evaluating Internet Research Sources
Evaluating Web Resources
Criteria for the Evaluation of Internet Information Resources
Evaluating Quality on the Net
Kathy Schrock's Critical Evaluation of a Website Rubric
Checklist for Evaluating Web Resources
Evaluating Webpages: A Webquest
An Educator’s Guide to Credibility and Web Evaluation
NJ - Standards
(NJCCCS) in
Mathematics by NJ DOE
• Review of “New” Standards
Current Standards
•
www.njpep.org/standards/revised_standards/Math_newstandards/TOC.html
(Important Matrix)
•
http://education.state.nj.us/njsdb/index.php?rm=20;ci=4
•
www.nj.gov/njded/assessment/
•
www.njpep.org/classroom/classroom_resources/math_standards_resources.html
• Align Standards to classroom lessons,
Useful Websites - Free easy access for student internet resources
http://www.iKeepBookmarks.com/Camden_County_Academy
Do Now
Write two or
three paragraphs about and exciting, frightening, or other emotional
event. Read the paragraphs to your partner and ask questions about
unclear points.
Group Activity - Determine "Most Remembered Emotional Event"
Sample Foundation Based Lessons
Model Lesson #1 http://edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson_plan.asp?ID=281
Other Resources: http://www.chicagohs.org/fire/intro/
Model Lesson #2
Foundation Based Resources
International Reading Association - Read*Write*Think
http://www.readwritethink.org/
National Geographic Expeditions
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/
National Endowment for the Humanities
http://edsitement.neh.gov/
Council on Economic Education Econ Ed Link
The Kennedy Center - ArtsEdge
Model Lesson #23http://illuminations.nctm.org/java/geosolids/GeoSolids.html
http://illuminations.nctm.org/index_o.aspx?id=122
Council of Teachers of Mathematics - Illuminations
http://illuminations.nctm.org/
http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/
•Online Presentations
–Information in an interactive format:
•online exhibits, guided tours, documentaries, slideshows, demonstrations, videos, and multimedia. •Free Videos http://www.vpw.com/educational/
Learning Activities
–Content designed to promote discovery, decision making, problem solving, and critical thought:
•multiple-choice games, puzzles, and quizzes, fill-in-the-blank forms and calculators, interactive exhibits, simulations, virtual realities, and scenarios that guide learners in quest of knowledge.
• http://astroventure.arc.nasa.gov/
• http://ares.jsc.nasa.gov/Education/Websites/AstrobiologyEduc ation/classact.htm
• http://www.genesismission.org/educate/scimodule/moduleover view.html
Internet Excursions
–Programs that link students to an ongoing event
•a space mission, a political campaign, an expedition to the Arctic or the bottom of the sea —
– giving them an opportunity to share in the adventure and share ideas with the adventurers themselves.
• Interactive Expedition http://www.fieldmuseum.org/expeditions/greg_expe dition/about.html
Grants for Camden County Teachers
Internet Partnerships
Programs that link students to their peers in other schools and other countries:
cooperative research programs that gather data from science students around the world
collaborations organized by individual teachers.
Collaborative Projects http://njnie.dl.stevens-tech.edu/collabprojs.html
Partner Projects http://njnie.dl.stevens-tech.edu/partnerprojs.html
Real Time Data Projects http://njnie.dl.stevens-tech.edu/realtimeproj.html
Collection Projects http://njnie.dl.stevens-tech.edu/primarysourceproj.html
Curriculum Enrichment –
Adapt resources to your needs
–Infuse new content into your current lesson plans and lectures
–Add an interactive map, an animation of molecular structure, an audioclip of a historic speech
http://www.43a.de/hindenburg.htm
Learning Experience
–Portfolio Projects
• let students construct their own view of a subject by gathering content from selected sites.
–PowerPoint, FrontPage, Hyper Studio,
–Fact-Finding Projects
•turn students into detectives scouring selected web sites for the answers to your questions.
–Trackstar – Free Authoring Tools
http://trackstar.4teachers.org/trackstar/Journal-Keeping Projects –
–Send students to a series of web pages with questions designed to spark reflection on what they find.
•Teaching Tool
Use the interactive nature of the Internet to engage students in inquiry-based learning
–Challenge Activities
•Have students develop evidence at selected sites to substantiate or refute a stated position.
–Discovery Activities
•Guide students through a series of online investigations in search of answers to a mystery or puzzling question.
Teaching Tool
Webquests - Projected Base Collaborative Projects
I Search / Webquest Examples
Civil War
http://coe.west.asu.edu/students/hcarter/webquest.htm
Land Fill
http://www.snc.edu/educ/mse/courses/summerIT/students/benesh-zoeller/
Ancient Egypt
http://www.iwebquest.com/egypt/ancientegypt.htm
Math
Creative
http://studenthome.nku.edu/%7Ewebquest/gabbard/
Forest
http://www.teachtheteachers.org/projects/MBergey/index.htm
Yellowstone Wolves
http://www.powayschools.com/projects/mt&r/ConflictYellowstoneWolf.htm
Identifying the Argument of an Essay: A Tutorial in Critical Reasoning.
RhymeZone: An entertaining resource for finding words that rhyme
•Teaching Materials
–Portable content in reproducible formats:
•maps, charts, tables, graphs, timelines, images, articles, archival documents, datasets, worksheets, activities, and handouts.
Interactive Tools
How To Websites
Online Presentations
–Information in an interactive format:
•online exhibits, guided tours, documentaries, slideshows, demonstrations, videos, and multimedia.
• Interactive Expedition Field Museum
•Free Videos http://www.vpw.com/educational/
Student's Classroom - Really fascinating site
•Learning Activities
–Content designed to promote discovery, decision making, problem solving, and critical thought:
•multiple-choice games, puzzles, and quizzes, fill-in-the-blank forms and calculators, interactive exhibits, simulations, virtual realities, and scenarios that guide learners in quest of knowledge.
• http://astroventure.arc.nasa.gov/
• http://ares.jsc.nasa.gov/Education/Websites/AstrobiologyEduc ation/classact.htm
• http://www.genesismission.org/educate/scimodule/moduleover view.html
•
•Internet Excursions
–Programs that link students to an ongoing event
•a space mission, a political campaign, an expedition to the Arctic or the bottom of the sea —
– giving them an opportunity to share in the adventure and share ideas with the adventurers themselves.
– http://www.earthwatch.org/education/
Internet Partnerships
Programs that link students to their peers in other schools and other countries:
cooperative research programs that gather data from science students around the world
collaborations organized by individual teachers.
Collaborative Projects http://njnie.dl.stevens-tech.edu/collabprojs.html
Partner Projects http://njnie.dl.stevens-tech.edu/partnerprojs.html
Real Time Data Projects http://njnie.dl.stevens-tech.edu/realtimeproj.html
Collection Projects http://njnie.dl.stevens-tech.edu/primarysourceproj.html
•Curriculum Enrichment –
Adapt resources to your needs
–Infuse new content into your current lesson plans and lectures
–Add an interactive map, an animation of molecular structure, an audioclip of a historic speech
• http://www.43a.de/hindenburg.htm
•Learning Experience
–Portfolio Projects
• let students construct their own view of a subject by gathering content from selected sites.
–PowerPoint, FrontPage, Hyper Studio,
–Fact-Finding Projects
•turn students into detectives scouring selected web sites for the answers to your questions.
–Trackstar – Free Authoring Tools
http://trackstar.4teachers.org/trackstar/
http://trackstar.4teachers.org/trackstar/help/profdev/guide01.jsp
–Research Projects
• give students an in depth project.
•Journal-Keeping Projects –
–Send students to a series of web pages with questions designed to spark reflection on what they find.
•Teaching Tool
Use the interactive nature of the Internet to engage students in inquiry-based learning
–Challenge Activities
•Have students develop evidence at selected sites to substantiate or refute a stated position.
–Discovery Activities
•Guide students through a series of online investigations in search of answers to a mystery or puzzling question.
Teaching Tool
–Decision-Making Activities
•Frame a controversy and guide students to sites where they can develop a position of their own.
http://ddonline.tomsnyder.com/
–Problem-Solving Activities –
•Create a scenario in which students evaluate competing points of view and formulate their own solutions.
Identifying the Argument of an Essay: A Tutorial in Critical Reasoning.
RhymeZone: An entertaining resource for finding words that rhyme
NJ Department of Education