The document discusses the need to teach students effective web literacy skills. It notes that students today are "digital natives" but lack skills in evaluating online sources and content. A survey found that most students don't know how to form effective search queries, check the author or date of sources, or define how search engines return results. The document argues that teachers must improve their own web literacy skills and serve as models for students on conducting effective online research. It stresses the importance of lifelong learning and developing professional learning networks to stay current with changing technologies.

1. Embracing Technology and the Web in School Mark E. Moran, Founder, Dulcinea Media Fall 2010

2. Our mission: to help educators teach students how to use the Web effectively.

3. We need to teach students how to ask questions. - Angela Maiers

4. Young kids ask a lot of great questions

5. What sound does a goat make? Ask a five-year-old ...

6. Let’s it !

7. The Internet defines the way that young people learn, communicate, and create. Students feel in charge of information.

8. Kids have “Answers” in the palm of their hand

9. Life has become an open-book test . “ Schools run a great risk of becoming irrelevant to students.” - Peter Pappas

10. Found our own study materials online.

11. Today’s students are “digital natives” whose brains likely “have physically changed – and are different from ours – as a result of how they grew up.” - Marc Prensky

13. Question: How do you begin your search?

14. Almost half of middle school students chose “I type a question.”

15. Question: How do you know if a source is a good source to use for a school paper?

16. Answer: If it “ looks good” or “sounds good.” If it has the “correct” information.

17. Actual response: I don’t know. I just go with it.

18. What do you do if a search does not give you good results? I punch the screen. Just kidding, LOL .

19. 65% of students “ rarely or never” check the author. “ It doesn’t really matter who wrote it .” ..

21. I can’t find it.

24. WE’RE LOST

25. Students in college who had Web literacy training in primary school "take the prize of better grades.” The rest show up “beyond hope.” --UC London Research Review

26. Kids without adult guidance online end up as “feral children of the Internet…raised by the wolves of Web 2.0” --Henry Jenkins

29. Improving Web literacy starts with your own skills.

30. “ Students see educators modeling an effective research process and learn from it.” - Colette Cassinelli

31. There are no excuses: “ too old” “ too new” “ too frightened of technology” “ too shy”

34. Commit to being a daily, life-long learner.

35. Develop a personal learning network through which you reach out across the world to find colleagues to learn from and collaborate with. The investment you make in time and energy will be repaid multiple times on the back-end. Without a PLN, no professional can reach full potential.

36. Most educators in the same boat as you. More ways to collaborate & commiserate than ever.

37. Thousands of free sources online. A PLN that helps you sort them out.

39. You are no longer the “sage on the stage.” Collaborate with students and build knowledge.

41. “ Kids haven’t changed. I have.” - Marlene Thornton

42. Do you believe in me? Do you believe in yourself?