What are different types of educational websites available on the internet?
Educational websites are websites that provides digital content specifically designed to support k-12 curriculum learning. There are six types of educational websites, they are lesson plan, student to expert communication, real time and recorded data,archival and primary source, skill/practice and exploration and discovery. Lesson plan websites offers ideas for classroom lessons and lesson plans with step by step methods and procedures. Student-to -expert communication websites are websites where students in K-12 can exchange ideas and information between students.Real time and recorded data websites are present time information about different types of scientific phenomena. Archival and primary source websites allows students to conduct historical investigations skills practice websites offer subject -specific activities for students at all grade levels and exploration and discovery websites provide opportunities for students to engage in online explorations of topics of interest.
Tech Tools - iNaturalist
This website is an interesting website where students can view and upload photos of animals plans from around the world. There are pictures posted on the website from Africa , Italy, Spain, and many more. To go beyond pictures, there are nature scientists they can communicate with as well. It is an example of real time and recorded data website.
Summary and connection
The chapter was about the various educational websites and app there are and how they are contributing to education and changing the way we teach the children of the future. Cellphone are one of the things we can't spend a day without using in today society, that's understandable because with a simple click we have access to the world wide web. Educational apps made it possible to access more resourceful information easier and quicker. Luminosity is an app that allows people to train their memories and multitasking abilities,I downloaded the app two days ago and I'm obsess with it.I look at it as being a good thing, instead of wasting my time with an app that I learn or gain nothing from, I'm educating and improving myself.
RESOURCES
Maloy, R. W., Verock-O, R. E., Edwards, S. A., & Woolf, B. P. (2010).Transforming learning with new technologies. Allyn & Bacon.
Davalos, Mario. 2011. Photograph. n.p. Web. 24 Feb 2014.
So many websites to explore...so little time! :) The internet has become the our 'go to' source for information and even connections. So, the digital nature of our world has already and will continue to infiltrate our classrooms as well. As teachers, we need to capture the essence of strong content as well as help students learn to navigate the the web effectively, too. Keep the luminosity play going - you are going to be using your brain for a long time! :)
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