Evaluating Internet Resources and Web-Based Lessons
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Evaluating Web-Based Lessons
The second part of this lesson addresses locating and evaluating Web-based lessons. It will assist you in developing a guide to help you assess and identify lessons that use technologies to their fullest advantage in the classroomJust as there are many helpful websites for use with your students, there are also many web-based lessons available for an interactive learning experience. There are many websites that collect and catalog lesson plans for teachers. However, just because a lesson is found on the Web does not mean that it incorporates Web-based learning. Most of the websites include lessons that use various forms of technology, including the Web, as well as non-technology based lessons for use in a classroom without Internet connectivity.
The collections of Web-based lessons are great for exploring how other teachers are incorporating the Web and other computer technologies into their classrooms locally, nationally, and internationally. Access to these collections enables teachers who are new to using the Web with their students to learn from the successful (and not so successfull) experiences of other teachers who are using the Web with their students.
Demo #1: Let's look at one of the collections of lesson plans. AskERIC has a number of educational resources For our purposes, click on the "Lesson Plans" button on the left side navigation bar. Click on "mathmatics," click on "arithmetic," scroll down and click on "Let Us Go Shopping." Scan through the lesson. Is this a web-based lesson? Why or why not?
Demo #2: There are many lessons available on the Web. Just because a lesson is on the Web, does not mean it is Web-based. Here we will only evaluate lessons which implement Web use by the students, but many of the criteria can be used to evaluate traditional, non-technology-based lessons as well.
Take a few moments to look over this Criteria for Evaluating Web-Based Lessons and be prepared to discuss the following questions:
Are there any criteria with which
you disagree?
Are there any additional criteria
that should be considered?
Do the criteria address the realities
of your classroom?
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