My students' ability to skim for information has improved as a result of their increased use of the Internet. When using the Internet it is imperative to be able to skim a site to find the information that you are looking for. This ability has transferred into their reading in all subject areas. Gene ral Outcomes of the Study Technology is a tool, a very powerful tool, but a tool none the less. These are questions that educators need to ask themselves.
Teachers make hundreds of decisions every day.
I found from this study that using technology requires more time, both in preparing and presenting lessons. It took much planning to identify key topics from my textbook, do Internet searches for each of the topics, check to discern that the topic was suitable for my fourth graders, and to decide whether it was at a readability level that they could understand and use. That was just the beginning. Then I identified the sites I would be using. I chose a teaching model to use, and a way for students to either look for, gather, record, visualize, or reflect on the information at the Internet site I would have them look at.