SUGGESTED DESIGN CRITERIA
FOR
INTERNET PROJECTS
While teachers try to accomplish a variety of activities during their classroom instruction, it is possible to achieve many of the following goals when implementing Internet projects into the regular classroom curriculum.
Internet projects should:
1. Focus on getting students to use their minds well.
2. Raise "real" questions and allow students to do authentic work rather than exercises.
3. Develop instruction around the questions, ideas, and concerns of students.
4. Recognize and use learners' purposes for learning.
5. View learning as meaning-making and constructive rather than passive reception and regurgitation of transmitted information.
6. Develop active approaches to learning and encourage students to express their ideas and opinions.
7. Give students ownership of their learning.
8. View teachers and students as co-investigators. Both should seek knowledge and solutions to problems.
9. Foster collaborative/cooperative learning and devise activities that help build a sense of community.
10. View students as producers of knowledge and publishers of their work.
11. Provide moments when everyone takes time to reflect on what they have learned.
12. Contribute to understanding of other nations and cultures
13. Strengthen students' literacy and academic skills
14.Provide ample opportunity to strengthen students' technology and Internet skills
Prepared by Sheila O. Gersh, Ed.D.©sogcc@cunvym.cuny.edu