Quality K16 Professional Development

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Quality K-16 Professional Development
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Online and Onsite Opportunities
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Online

• NTEN Courses
• Jason Academy
• University of Maryland College of Life Sciences

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Onsite

• Albertsons Food Safety Science
• Inquiry
• Webwatchers

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NSTA Program funded by the National Science
Foundation over the three years

• NSTA Program funded by the
• National Science Foundation

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The Need

• Currently over 4 billion web pages on the net
• Pages being added at rate of 7.3 million per
  day!

Sizing the Internet Cyveillance white paper
report, 7.10.2000
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Have you tried searching under fruitless?
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The Need

• More than half of the nations school districts
  report that kids are the campus experts when it
  comes to school technology

USA Today- June 5, 2002 At U.S Schools, Students
are Technology Teachers- by Karen Thomas Citing
report Are We There Yet-2nd major report from
National School Boards Foundation
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The Need

• 811 school districts surveyed, including 90 of
  largest 100 found
• Only 43 of new teachers are average in their
  ability to use the Internet for classroom
  instruction
• Most Internet use is for research-based projects,
  with very little use of interactive learning and
  collaboration

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The Need
The UCLA Center for Communication Policy just
released study suggesting

• Schools should incorporate the NET into their
  instructional practices
• Stressed importance of teaching students how to
  critically evaluate online information

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• The Solution-
• A program to train teachers how to find, evaluate
  and assemble appropriate Internet education
  resources aligned to NSES

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Web Guide Components
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Web Guide Structure
Guides are for teachers and take drill down
approach
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Web Guide Structure
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You be the judge
Use the Interactivity Rubric Handout to determine
where you think this page would rate
Search for the Origins of the Universe
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Where are the Web guides ?

• http//webwatchers.nsta.org

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Webwatcher Training Programs

• Six programs scheduled for spring 2003
• Blends face-to-face and online training
• Facilitated by experienced WebWatchers
• Access to Web Guides developed by other teams in
  the field

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What if?

• You could not only access the existing web
  guides, but create you own based on topics of
  interest to your district or county?
• No HTML programming needed!

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Thank You