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Websites for Middle School Students

Websites for Middle School Students. Sharon Gray, Instructional Technologist Augustana College, Sioux Falls. Why bother?. Access to INFORMATION and RESOURCES Ability to ACCOMMODATE varied learning styles Opportunity to create ENGAGED learners. You’re teaching a “Gameboy” generation.

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Websites for Middle School Students

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  1. Websites for Middle School Students Sharon Gray, Instructional Technologist Augustana College, Sioux Falls

  2. Why bother? • Access to INFORMATION and RESOURCES • Ability to ACCOMMODATE varied learning styles • Opportunity to create ENGAGED learners Augustana College

  3. You’re teaching a “Gameboy” generation Technology is not a cure-all, but there will be an expectation of technology integration… Augustana College

  4. (for kids) Battle Maps The Biography Maker Paradigm Online Writing Assistant Sharon Gray’s Website Augustana College

  5. http://www.getnetwise.org/ It’s important to teach students how to protect themselves on the Web… Augustana College

  6. Social Networking • An online space where users create profiles describing themselves and their interests and link to other individuals and groups with similar interests • First social networking site was Classmates.com • Popular current social networking sites: • MySpace (largest worldwide with roughly 169 million users) • Founded in 2003 • Purchased by News Corp. in 2006 for $580 million • Orkut(owned by Google, roughly 46 million users) • Bebo (roughly 32 million users) • Facebook(largest college-focused with roughly 25 million users*) • *2007 Augustana College

  7. In the Fall of 2002, the Bush administration announced its plans for a program called "Total Information Awareness" (Sourcewatch, Wikipedia.) It was intended to be a counter-terrorism database to help track the activities of "people loosely organized in shadowy networks." Amidst a flurry of concern by privacy advocates, the name was changed to "Terrorism Information Awareness ." The government has since announced that the program no longer exists (USA Today 09.25.03.) But an interesting private sector phenomenon - Facebook has emerged which does many of the same things the massive "Total Information Awareness" program was intended to do: create a database of practically everyone, complete with photographs and links between people. And, students around the U.S. are voluntarily feeding it data (CommonGroundCommonsense, Jacob Morse's blog, The Student Underground.) Augustana College

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