Health & Fitness
Promote Your Child's Learning with These Online Tools
Ever wonder what sort of stuff is on the Internet that is kid friendly AND can help them learn how to learn? In this post, I will show you where to find some of it!
As teachers and parents, we all hear about the plethora of "stuff" we can get on the net that would be useful for our kids - Google Docs, Weebly, and so on. But, where are these things found? Once you find them, how do you search through them all and find ones that don't drain your already limited budget?
Sometimes, you find a great tool online, there are a million reasons that the company gives you to use it, and you sign up for it, only to find out that the supposedly FREE service gives you almost NONE of the services they mentioned.
Well, I have been playing around on the Internet since it’s early days, soon after Al Gore “invented” it (I STILL can’t believe he claimed that!). I’ve seen it advance from a collection of information (Web 1.0) to a bunch of interactive sites that promote not just KNOWING information, but HOW to COMPREHEND the information, APPLY it and SYNTHESIZE it into new ways to understand it. THIS is the new Internet, the Web 2.0, a collection of interactive websites and tools that can be creatively used to promote learning in our students and our own children. Many of these sites and tools are also free - IF you only know how to FIND them and are willing to spend the TIME to LEARN them!
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As a technology teacher the past 6 years, I found a number of tools that I was able to use for my students both in class and suggest them to parents as tools to teach everything from social skills to programming to writing and reading. I also noticed that there has been a big movement to find free things on the Internet.
Remember Napster and the RIAA? It has only grown since then. As a teacher and a parent, I have a limited budget and feel that the education of our children is VERY important. THEY are our future and should get every chance to succeed. However, the nature of our businesses is to make money, so, many tools that could help our children succeed cost money that many of us don’t have in this economy. However, I am here to give you some ideas of tools you can use for little to no cost. These are all Web 2.0 tools and, if you are willing to work at it, many of them can be used for free!
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Check these sites out - maybe you and your kids will find some tools that they'll LOVE! Plus, if there's more you'd like to find, you can always contact me through Patch!
