Learning tasks are authentic, challenging, and multidisciplinary. Assessment is authentic, based on performance, seamless and ongoing, and generates new learning. Engaged learning helps students develop thinking strategies and higher-order skills. Learning actions are processes or behaviors all learners can employ across all learning situations. A Word of Caution Integrating the use of the Internet into your classroom will change how you teach forever.
Few students are prepared for the complexity and disorganization typically found on the Internet.
Students need to be taught how to explore, investigate and mine the overly abundant Internet resources. While it has always been important for students to learn how to select, reflect upon, manipulate, organize, and evaluate information, the need is even greater now. Without these skills, the bombardment of information will be confusing, misleading, and overwhelming. With technology so prevalent in all aspects of our lives, students need all the opportunities they can get for becoming skilled with this remarkable tool. Make plans today for Internet use in your classroom that will help students succeed in their academic pursuits and prepare them for the future.