Week2 - Role of ICT in Education; Evaluating and using information from the internet

Tutor, Tutee, Tools

Tutor :
It’s the software it can help the student to learn . like the math software reading skills , games, tutorials, simulation.
Software like :

MS Office Tutorial :
http://www.blogger.com/www.baycongroup.com/word2007/01_word2007.html

Flight Simulator :
Flight Simulator X

Encyclopedia:
http://www.microsoft.com/products/encarta/default.mspx

Tutee :
The learner teaches the computer using programming, authoring software, scripting, flash, dreamweaver.
Visual Basic, C#, VB script, MX Flash, Dreamweaver

How I use the computer in classroom?
I start using the PowerPoint with the projector to give the student the point witch will discuss then let the student to search for information about this point in the internet after that we discuss this information. Some of student give this information as presentation and other gives as file.

Computer and Tools:
Product Tools:
The users ability can be extend through this software :

Ms office:
http://office.microsoft.com/ar-sa/default.aspx

Database management :
http://www.sqlmanager.net/en/products/manager

Panting and Drawing :
Paint, Photoshop

Internet searching:

Mind Tools :
Is the software that used by student to accomplish a set task … organizing their thoughts and ideas.
Multimedia & Game Making, Graphics & Animation, Programming.
The student need to think in deep in the task and make the connection between the objects and thinks as creativities.
http://www.mindtools.tased.edu.au/default.htm


Evaluating and Using information from the internet

What type of information available in the internet ?
- Digital books
- Web pages
- Electronic articles
- Scientific journals
- News papers
- Conferences papers
- Reports, videos, blogs….

How we can evaluate the information on internet for its credibility ?

Activity :
discuss in groups and report to the class the results. http://teaching.berkeley.edu/bgd/collaborative.html

Criteria based in various sources:

Who is the author ?
Credible source
Accuracy of information
Purpose of publication
Up to date material
Provide a balanced viewpoint

Checking online sources
Online bookshttp://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/Evaluate.html

How can credit information that taken form the internet ?
- The information are original or copied form internet or other resource. - Referencing sources http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/Evaluate.html http://www.library.jhu.edu/researchhelp/general/evaluating/

Comment:
Most people thy thought the links its good evaluation for the information which is available in the web but I thought its not like that. Because this links are pages in web which is in server. This server it can be same server you use or it could not. You can evaluate the web if the server work or you can access to it but if the server not working or you cant access to it then the information belong to it can not be evaluated. and this what happen most the time you evaluate the web page after that you cant find the links you evaluated by it. This thinks scare me because we well lose all the information which we have if we trusted in the technology and if we put the all what we have in this technology and suddenly if sum think happen for this technology we lose all the data which we have. The question is how we can replace data back if we forget it ?

To solve this:
We should have server can not be stop or working all the time forever . ( this id imposable). The other thinks we can do is not using one server only but we use more than one server to put the same page of information. ( this well solve the have of problems but it make the search for the information more complicated and it need more environments).