Internet Safety at home and at school

Crais, S Internet safety at school and at home, Education World, (Retrieved April 10^th 2011). http://www.educationworld.com/a_tech/tech/tech218.shtml

Internet safety at home and at school

A school in Memphis has 7^th-12^th graders carrying their own laptops from class to class. About two years ago these parents began to ask how they could control what their child is doing online. Mainly this concern comes from online chat rooms, because kids tend to have more online friends then real friends. On line stalkers look for these children, and gain their trust so they can meet them.

The school developed a laptop parent advisory council, where the parents discuss ways to prevent this from happening. The panel of guest speakers included a sheriff, a psychologist, a cyber-law specialist and one of the parents. In the night meetings they discussed many things the children need to be taught. These things included the dangers of chat rooms, and appropriate email usage. At the meeting they also discussed how to determine what your child is doing on line, rules to place for on line usage. There are many signs that could help a parent prevent their child from having an online stalker, one of them being if there is an increased amount of time being spent on the internet.

How are smart boards used in the classroom?

eHow contributor, How are smart boards used in classrooms? eHow  Retrieved April 3, 2011

How are smart boards used in classrooms?

With smart boards it is possible to show videos, write equations, and check homework all on the same board in a classroom. Smart boards are used as a computer monitor and a chalk board at the same time… minus the chalk.

Operation

Smart boards are touching sensitive devices. Information that is displayed on the computer monitor is projected up on the board. Making it easy for teachers to present a problem and then move about the classroom helping students solve the problem.

Slide Show

During presentations presenters can move about because of the slide advance or reverse button also on the screen. Kind of like on power point, only now the presenter/teacher doesn’t have to be glued to the computer, because they just hit next, or back right on the board.

Digital Blackboards

The smart boards also functions as a dry erase board using the smart pens. The pens can mark or write on anything that can be projected. So a teacher could use a blank piece of paper to have one student come up and show the class how to work it out. Or the teacher could have something they are showing the class likes a power point and it may make it clearer to mark on it at the time of presentation.

Peer Review

Another great reason to have smart boards in the classroom is because students work can be projected up on the screen so their classmates can see what they got for an answer, and how they came to that conclusion. By doing this the students are feeding off of each other.