Grades One and Two

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Children's Technology Review, March 2012, Vol. 20, No 3, Issue 144

 http://childrenstech.com/files/2012/03/ctrissue144mar12.pdf

How to create a Web Lesson

Sample Lesson on Eight Parts of Speech

Resource: http://www.sophia.org/packets/building-blocks-of-language-the-eight-parts-of-spe

1. Listen to student rap song.

2. Study your assigned Parts of Speech number so you can teach it to the class.

3. Extra Time? Read the "Why is it important to know the 8 parts of speech?"

4.  Assessment: last section of the page - identify the parts of speech.

Web Safety - ONLY GO TO DIRECT LINKS - NO EXPLORING!!!
This is especially true for social media websites like YouTube or FaceBook - see examples below.

What does this mean?

Google Filtering with Gmail

Your school’s Internet filters are not the only filters deciding what you and your students can access on the web either at school or at home. Proponents of an open Internet are beginning to warn users of an important, albeit probably unintentional side effect of Google’s ability to tailor its search results very granularly to each user. Google’s sophisticated algorithms operate in two modes; one when you are logged into Google via Gmail, YouTube, etc, and one when you’re not. When logged in, Google has all the information about you that you have provided to the search behemoth and it uses that information to tailor your search results. Such information includes what you have clicked on before. Many search algorithms use this approach today, including Netflix and many web retailers. But those search programs filter products that you see. Google’s search, which is likely your interface to the web itself, filters much more. In fact, it often provides significantly different search results to each user on identical search terms. Based on your profile, or on searches you have issued before, or on which results you have clicked on in those searches, and/or your location (country, region, state, municipality), potentially your purchasing history or other socio-economic status indicators, and myriad other indicators, Google sends you only the information they think you want. Each time you click on a link, it’s as if you are casting a vote, and that vote constrains what you will see next time.

The significance of such filtering is that, as Internet activist Eli Pariser of Moveon.org points out in his book The Filter Bubble: What the Internet Is Hiding from You (Penguin Press , 2011), it can be hard for a political liberal to get much information or points of view espoused by conservatives, and vice versa—as just one example. It also means that the world according to Google can look very different to two different people. And with the fairly widespread belief that if you don’t find something in a Google search, it doesn’t exist, search results can really color your world, and that of your students. Something to keep in mind when using the web in class and assigning research and reading from the web at home.

Here is Eli’s TED Talk on filter bubbles.