Ten Stages to Web Nirvana

Adapted from material by

Tom March

http://www.ozline.com

1 - Getting to Know the Web

• Visit a directory like Yahoohttp://www.yahoo.com

• Visit a portal like the Mining Companyhttp://www.miningco.com

• Do random surfinghttp://webcrawler.com/cgi-bin/random

2 - Find Your Web

• The Web is the World

• Find your slice of the web

• Surf, Stumble, Search and Lurch http://www.ozline.com/learning/stumble_js.html

3 - Meeting your Neighbors

• Killer applications are programs that justify owning a computer

• Throughout the years there have been many killer apps (Visicalc, Word Perfect, etc.)

• People are the killer apps of the Internet

4 - Using the Web with Students

• Use it to support what you already do well

• Start with Kathy Schrock’s pageshttp://discoveryschool.com/schrockguide/

• or Pac Bell’s Blue Web’Nhttp://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/bluewebn

5 - Designing Goal-based Web Activities

• Design with goals in mind

• Who knows the content or motivation your students need better than you?

• Working the Web for Educationhttp://www.ozline.com/learning/theory.html

• Filamentality http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/fil

Selecting the Activity

• Helping students acquire knowledge or getting students to care more about the topic suggests Treasure/Knowledge Hunthttp://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/BHM/hunt.html

• If you want to add affective connections try a subject samplerhttp://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/China/sampler.html

6 - Advanced Goal-based Design

• Information literacy is a critical issue on the web today.

• The “garbage” presents challenges and opportunities that didn’t exist before.

• WebQuests are the prototype for web based transformational curriculumhttp://edweb.sdsu.edu/webquest/webquest.htmlhttp://www.ozline.com/webquests

The Classic WebQuest

• The first WebQuest published to general use remains the standard.

• Searching for China by Tom Marchhttp://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/China/ChinaQuest.html

Two New Concepts

• Found at Web-and-Flow Interactivehttp://www.web-and-flow.com

• 1- Concept Builder prompts learners to develop concepts about sophisticated ideas

• Example - No Near o' Eras activities in Eyes on Arthttp://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/art2

Two New Concepts

• An Insight Reflector example is the Why so Child-Friendly activity located at UNICEF's Teachers Talking about Learning Web site http://www.unicef.org/teachers

7 - Pursuing Transformation

• It's not easy to prompt higher-order thinking

• Prompting transformative thinking seems an unnatural act

• it's part of a two stage process: first we help students develop expertise, then we foist them into a scenario that forces new use of that expertise

• One solution is to assign roles and a common essential question.

8 - Welcome to Your New Job

• Approach you jobs in a new, learning-centered way

• Four reasons why…http://library.advanced.org/16661/http://library.advanced.org/13681/data/davin2.shtmlhttp://library.advanced.org/17457/english.htmlhttp://www.schoolsucks.com/http://www.cheathouse.com

9 - Taking off the Training Wheels

• As you use things like WebQuests you develop your coaching skills

• You move from the sage on the stage to the guide on the side

• You have to adapt to the new era of disintermediation

• Emphasis on metacognition

10 - All that's left is Learning

• From the outside it looks the same

• Coming full circle puts you back at the beginning with new perspectives.

• Developing lifelong learning skills