Arun-Kumar Tripathi (tripathi@amadeus.statistik.uni-dortmund.de)
Fri, 30 Oct 1998 15:27:40 +0100 (MET)
Date: Fri, 30 Oct 1998 15:27:40 +0100 (MET) From: Arun-Kumar Tripathi <tripathi@amadeus.statistik.uni-dortmund.de> Subject: [ifets] Part of my paper: Internet and Education
Dear IFETS Members and Dear Alan,
Internet has already become impossible to "cover the territory", this has
implications for our thinking about the role of teachers...it may no longer
to impart content knowledge as much as it is necessary to impart critical
thinking skills, imformation literacy, and collaboration.
The Internet is really an expanding frontier -the combination of information
influx and expansion of software functionality and the rapid growing
number of computers on the system make it unlike we have ever encountered
bofore. As to the degree of freedom such a system allows- it will be
impossible to prevent information from becoming accessible once it is
placed in the network. In just the last 5 years I have been stunned by the
amount of information that is discoverable -many copies of the same thing
are found in many places, making it impossible to eradicate.
Of course, disinformation is similarly present and similarly hard to
eradicate, so we are going to have to work harder and harder to identify
quality information from disinformation. Authentication of sources will be
critical. So, there is still great deal of work to be done to make the
Internet the tool it can and should be.
The World Wide Web is a big part of the Internet; to understand the
World Wide Web (WWW), one first has to understand its home ---the
Internet. The Internet is an enormous library or collection of libraries
through which one can access information and people. The Internet has gained
widespread popularity relatively recently.
Students using the Internet and the World Wide Web will:
* Develop the technical skills required to use the Internet for
communication and information gathering.
* Acquire geographic awareness based on understanding the global nature of
Internet connections and communications.
* Improve their ability to learn and understand new and changing information
technologies.
* Learn to evaluate the validity of information acquired through Internet
resources.
* Learn to synthesize data acquired through the Internet into a meaningful
whole.
* Develop the skills required to rate information for relevence in meeting a
specified need.
* Understand and know how to use at least one Web Browser.
* Understand differences and similarities among search engines.
* Understand how to use a variety of search engines.
* Develop strategies for finding and evaluating new Internet growth and use.
The Internet is a great resource for harnessing the teachable
moment. It is not difficult to imagine the educational impact that
such an immediate and visceral connection to the world's events can create
among the Teachers and students. The Web itself is probably the best source
for the information that you seek, requiring no more than that lots of
searching using different search strategies.
Thoughts??
Kind Regards
Arun Tripathi
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