Current times are so demanding, being efficient
with the time management is a must for all professionals and Teacher are not
the exemption. In this way, Teachers need to focus in addressing their Students
needs by establishing effective aims and making effective lesson plans, based
on current information and creative techniques to catch the Ss attention ant
keep them motivated while learning. It was stated that internet is the greatest
library ever but the most disorganized as well, so Teachers have to be
extremely careful when researching and planning classroom activities in the
web. First of all, establishing clear aims for the lesson and keep focused in
that. Then, in order to save time, Teachers need to master the different tips
and techniques we worked on this week, like Google operators, basics, filters
and other web tools that help narrow the searching and get faster and easier
what Teachers are looking for.
Furthermore, Teachers need to inform and train
constantly their Students in the right use of internet, in order to avoid misinformation,
misunderstandings and wastes of time (especially during classroom activities).
It is important as well that teachers show Students how to identify reliable
sources of information from others in the web to avoid misunderstandings.
Another interesting learning this week was to know there are specialized searching
engines like MetaCrawler, Search-Cube and Dogpile which narrow information from
the largest searching engines like Google, Yahoo, AOL, msn, etc.
