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Tech Talk Toe » Blog Archive » Information Literacy for lower elementary students
Here are two 30 minute lessons that I’ve developed for 3rd grade students on the benefits and pitfalls of the World (Wild) Web. For good reason, parents and teachers are concerned when children begin browsing, so I wanted to compile an informative and memorable lesson.
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Macworld.Ars: Microsoft intros 2 new apps for Mac Office users
The second app, Entourage EWS, provides a “significant improvement to Entourage 2008″ that will allow users to sync their Entourage Tasks, Notes, and Categories with Exchange. This will be available as a public beta later this month, and the final release will be available for free sometime in 2009 for Office 2008 users.
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About Tod
I have a variety of experience in elementary and secondary schools as both a mainstream and specialist teacher in Colombia, the United States, Venezuela and China. Most recently, I taught grade five in the Primary Years Program at International School of Tianjin (IST), an International Baccalaureate (IB) World School. Now the PreK-12 IT Coordinator, I teach elementary technology classes and coordinate technology integration at IST. I advocate using technology to support inquiry and action in otherwise unobtainable ways.
I have presented at NECC 2008, Learning2.0, and Learning2.008. You can also find me on a blog that provides readers a view of education from international teachers,
U Tech Tips and
Tod Baker, my personal blog.
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Hey Tod, Thank you for the dig. I think I’ll cross post it to Utechtips.com later, too.
Often the standards and benchmarks we have (PK4-Gr12) state vague statements like ‘user will be aware of being responsible and safe’ for the whole twelve year period but WHAT does that look like at each grade level?
I’m with a parent as I type this – and that is her concern – so we are going over what our school does to try to protect our students and make them as aware as we can.
What are you guys doing in your school?
Lucy Gray, Elemenous on Twitter, asked its Educational community just yesterday – “How are you raising awareness of standards in your school if at all?” Profound. I’m excited to follow up on her on what she discovered. I know she was bubbling over with all the great responses.
It begins with essential questions. Let’s hope we can continue to create satisfactory ways to find answers.
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