Reflection #3

Robert Samsel

Reflection #3

Chapter 4

June 15 2011

Protocol: 4 A’s

The four A’s are

1. Assumptions of the author

2. Things the reader agrees with

3. Things the reader argues with

4. Something the reader aspires to

Each member of the group took a turn to share their A’s and we commented on each other’s A’s.

This chapter was insightful about really teaching students to evaluate what they find in the Internet. The acronym used was ISDT, Internet Slow Down and Think. I believe this is something that educators can do intuitively at varying degrees of proficiency. However, our students lack the experience and instruction about how to go about doing it. It’s a lot like reading in that although teachers can read they don’t always think about the process consciously and teach that process even less. Not only is there a lack of thought about strategies used. There are many different ones to use depending on the circumstance that it really becomes teaching technology literacy. Therefore, after reading, I have chosen to aspire to cognitively learn how to do this skill my self and then teach how this strategy to my students. However, it would be much more effective if all teachers did this because I alone can only use so many strategies in the time I am allotted and students need many different tools for the different content area specific strategies.

Another insight that I will take from this chapter is to use WebQuest as a resource to model what kids should use and even produce finished projects.

My strategy:

I like to just read everything first and then review the text and go back to big ideas that stuck out along the way. I also made a couple of questions in the margins and then they were answered later in the chapter.