Literacy with ICT Blog

Thank you for your attending our 4 day institute on mentoring colleagues.  We hope that these four days have been valuable to you professionally and have extended your understanding of the role of mentor, particularly as it pertains to implementation of Literacy with ICT.

We would like for you to share some final thoughts regarding your role as mentor.  What are your plans for the next school year, as they relate to mentoring?

Thank you for attending the third day of the Mentoring Institute.  We value your participation and the investment of time you are providing.  Please make a comment to this post by reflecting on the following:

1. How has being a mentor over the past few months /years influenced your own teaching practice?
2. What has been the most effective approach when it comes to working with teachers who are reluctant to include ICT in their learning experiences?

Thank you for coming to the LwICT Institute with open minds, for participating fully, and for learning from and with your peers!

Please reflect on your experiences at the LwICT Institute by responding to the following, or by reflecting on something of your own choosing.

1. What are some things you learned when you made your classroom visitations and observations of students?

2. In what ways will your assessment of LwICT support the growth of your students’ critical and creative thinking?

3. What are some opportunities and challenges you anticipate as you prepare to implement LwICT in your school?

Hers is an excellent website that walks students through the steps of assessing Internet resources for accuracy, reliability and currency.  Our students have never had more access to information than they do today.  But too much information, like too much of anything, is not necessarily a good thing unless students have the critical thinking skills to find GOOD information.

http://21cif.com/tutorials/micro/mm/accuracy/

In addition to giving students some good strategies to ensure the information they encounter is reliable, the site also provides a game for students to play that focuses on the following items:

• finding embedded evidence
• checking evidence for accuracy
• triangulation of data

Thanks to Howard Griffith for passing along this excellent resource for teachers and students.