Use of the Internet in Elementary Schools

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ABSTRACT: By looking at certain WEB sites (AskEric, PBS, KidLink, Interactive Frog Dissection, Hillside Elementary School, and Dade County Schools) this paper examines the ways the WEB is used in elementary schools. In addition, this paper addresses some controversial issues that arise when the WEB is used in elementary classrooms.

The development and growth of the Worldwide Wide Web have had an enormous impact on several areas including government, business, and even education. The WEB facilitates the quick and easy exchange of information between millions of people. Due to the growing availability and use of computers in classrooms, many of these WEB users are students. This increase in use is due in part to programs such as the IBM Teacher Preparation Grant Schools. This program "aims to promote technology growth in classrooms and to assist teacher education programs in providing quality technology training" (Larsen, 2). Teachers use the WEB in the classroom in three ways: as a resource for teachers, as a resource for students, and as a mode for students to create resources on the Internet.

The WEB contains a variety of resources for teachers. These can be as sites directed specifically at teachers or sites made for everyone. The WEB makes it possible for teachers who live in isolated districts to reach top sources from all over the world. An example of this is AskEric (http://ericir.syr. edu). This is the homepage for the Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC). ERIC is the largest source of educational information in the world. It houses more than 750,000 documents, including lesson plans, government information, publications, and educational documents (Doty, 78). Before the WEB, ERIC was mainly only available as a database at education schools, where many teachers could not conveniently access it. Now, all teachers with access to the WEB have access to ERIC.

There are several more specific ways in which the WEB acts as a resource for teachers. One example of this is PBS's homepage (http://www.pbs.org/ Welcome.html). This provides lesson supplements to use with many popular children's shows including Reading Rainbow, Newton's Apple, and Bill Nye the Science Guy (Doty, 79). A teacher can tape segments of the TV shows to use in class, then follow up with the suggestions posted on the homepage.

The WEB does not only offer resources for teachers. The WEB also contains services which students can access themselves and use to connect to other people and information.

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