Fifth Post

Textbooks will always be a great source of information and activities but the content could make the students not as engaged compared to using web resources. I will use web based resources to increase my students engagement, expose them to more authentic content and activities that encourage collaborative work and trigger their critical thinking skills as well as their creativity. Some fantastic sources of information that I found were PBS Teachers, U.S. Department of Education and National Geographic. Of course there are plenty iif more wonderful websites to visit that can be used as resources in your classroom.

My views about using the Internet to support student research as well as my own is that it helps us to stya connected to the current curriculum that we are focused on. The Internet helps introduce or review content directly related to the learning objectives of the topic we're focused on, My only issue with Internet use is that the students can sometimes get distracted with online games or other things that's not related to the topic of discussion.

The Inspiration assignment was pretty interesting. It was actually quite fun learning how to create my own concept map. I never used that website let alone head about it so I learned a lot of new things like how to connect the bubbles together or how to transfer the document into a word document. I just always knew how useful concept maps were when I was in elementary school for brainstorming ideas for a specific topic especially when we were writing. Definitely something I will use in my future class because it helps students find their creative side!

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