Teaching web literacy may not be very common now, but will affect me as a future teacher. Since Mississippi is one of the 46 states to follow the new Common Core Standards, it will be required for me to teach students how to manage web-based information. Without foundational and working knowledge of information and web literacy, students will not be able to produce the critical thinking skills required to appropriately conduct research tasks required in Common Core.
The Web Literacy article says that research shows most students think that they know how to use the internet, but once given research topics have no clue how to appropriately use the search engines. Internet is such a huge resource in present times and it is important that even at an early age students are taught how to adequately use search engines. However, there are three pillars that the article presents in this article: Purposeful search, effective organization and collaboration, and sharing and making sense of information. Understanding these pillars will take students to new levels of ability when using any type of search engine.
I found Diigo to be very interesting. It is a starting point to teach students how to organize and collaborate while searching on the web. This bookmarking tool uses “tags” to organize sites and images from the web. What I liked best about Diigo was that it can follow the student from elementary to college and so on! This is wonderful to add resources on specific classes, topics, or even things on a specific major in college!
With the new Common Core standards and internet being a main source for research, it will be crucial for me to teach my children how to properly use the internet web addresses to find proper web sites, not to just pick the first website and look for the answer. Having a good foundational knowledge could take social medias such as Twitter, Pinterest, and Google+ and have a rich learning resource in result!
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