Students will be able to develop organizational skills while using the internet to learn course content. Research a current social problem on the web . Here students can be exposed to a broad range of competing and conflicting ideas related to current social experience. This activity involves more refined skill in searching the web for more specific information and in sifting through numerous possible web sites for those that are most relevant. It also involves a critical evaluation of two or more positions.
Students can use the internet as a source of news information.
There are a number of major and minor media outlets on the internet. Students can compare media coverage locally, nationally and globally. Information collected from news sites can be used by students to give brief updates or major presentations on current events. Having students collect current information about social phenomena can be used to connect classroom learning to real world experience. Require students to use resources from the web in their research papers .