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Internet Safety

The world is at our children's fingertips! There is no limits to their computer playground. Lots of fun things to look at, play with, and explore. Please consider that behind some of those fun and exciting programs may lurk some sinister people who wish to take advantage of a child's innocents. Always be aware of what your students are visting and keep their computers in clear sight.

Internet Safety Websites
Check out these websites
Be Web Aware
Canadian Tipline
Student Tips
Media Awareness

Higher Order Thinking

All our knowledge results from questions, which is another way of saying that question-asking is our most important intellecctual tool.
(Postman, 1979: 140)

Often when teachers consider the development of thinking skills we use "Bloom's Taxonomy" as a guide. This taxonomy suggest that you cannot value or judge something until you:

1. know the facts
2. understand the facts
3. can apply the facts
4. can apply the facts
5. can take the facts apart
6. put the facts together in such a way that new perspectives are revealed

Asking good questions leads to better learning and leads to higher order thinking. It is critical as teachers that we learn the art of asking better questions and begin to expect better answers.

Excellent Book: Asking Better Questions by Norah Morgan & Juliana Saxton

Check out this website. Go here

http://www.teachers.ash.org.au/researchskills/dalton.htm http://www.newhorizons.org/strategies/mi/front_mi.htm

Software Evaluation

ttp://www.childrenssoftware.com/evaluation.html
http://www.evalutech.sreb.org/

Websites to Build Rubics

http://www.rubrics4teachers.com/

http://www.teach-nology.com/web_tools/rubrics/

http://www.tcet.unt.edu/START/instruct/general/rubrics.htm


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Additional Internet Safety Sites

Preston, Lancashire, UK: Online Networked Childrens’ Education
Project, Information Society Project Office, The European Union.

Partial Index of Internet Safety Websites:
http://k12science.ati.stevens-tech.edu/ internetsafety.html
http://kids.getnetwise.org/americalinksup/index.shtml
http://www.aba.gov.au/abanews/news_releases/2002/148nr02.htm
http://www.allsands.com/internetsafety_si_gn.htm
http://www.childcybersearch.org/
http://www.cyberangels.org/
http://www.cybercrime.gov/rules/kidinternet.htm http://www.ecpat.net/eng/
http://www.ed.gov/Technology/safety.html
http://www.educaunet.org/article.php3?id_article=16&var_recherche=safety
http://www.getnetwise.org/
http://www.internetsafety.com/
http://www.microsoft.com/info/safeonlinedefault.htm http://www.netsafe.org.nz/
http://www.nypl.org/branch/safety.html http://www.ou.edu/oupd/kidsafe/start.htm
http://www.software4parents.com/
http://www.safeonlineoutreach.org/documents.html http://www.safekids.com/
http://www.smartparent.com/ http://www.soc-um.org/
http://www.surfnetkids.com/kidsafe.htm
http://www4.nationalacademies.org/cp.nsf/57b01c7b1b6493c48525 6555005853cf/
7db4e3dd3d2d2204852568fd000b10ef?Open Document
http://yahooligans.yahoo.com/docs/safety/