Project Gutenberg - free ebooks Khan Academy 11 Resources for Teaching & Learning Web Safety Over the last three plus years I've reviewed a lot of resources related to web safety. Here are some of my favorite resources for teaching web safety. Welcome to the Web is a series of lessons for teaching young students how to navigate the Internet. There are seven lessons in the series although the first lesson is really just an introduction to the site. LMK Life Online is a website created for the purpose of educating girls about online safety. The Google Family Safety Center introduces parents to and shows them how to use Google's safety tools including safe search, safe search lock, and YouTube's safety mode. Own Your Space is a free, sixteen chapter ebook designed to educate tweens and teens about protecting themselves and their stuff online. The Virginia Department of Education has produced an engaging and useful site for teaching students web safety lessons. PBS Kids offers the Webonauts Academy in which elementary school students can learn about safe online behaviors.
U.S. Department of Education Study Finds that Good Teaching can be Enhanced with New Technology Providing further evidence of the tremendous opportunity to use technology to improve teaching and learning, the U.S. Department of Education today released an analysis of controlled studies comparing online and face-to-face instruction. A systematic search of the research literature from 1996 through July 2008 identified over 1,000 empirical studies of online learning. Of these, 46 met the high bar for quality that was required for the studies to be included in the analysis. “This new report reinforces that effective teachers need to incorporate digital content into everyday classes and consider open-source learning management systems, which have proven cost effective in school districts and colleges nationwide,” said U.S. “To avoid being caught short when stimulus money runs out, school officials should use the short-term federal funding to make immediate upgrades to technology to enhance classroom instruction and to improve the tracking of student data,” Duncan added. Top