Reflection on Web Tools

1. Creativity and Innovation
Students demonstrate creative thinking, construct knowledge, and develop innovative products and processes using technology. Students:
a. apply existing knowledge to generate new ideas, products, or processes.
b. create original works as a means of personal or group expression.
c. use models and simulations to explore complex systems and issues.
d. identify trends and forecast possibilities.


3. Research and Information Fluency
Students apply digital tools to gather, evaluate, and use information. Students:
a. plan strategies to guide inquiry.
b. locate, organize, analyze, evaluate, synthesize, and ethically use information from a variety of sources and media.
c. evaluate and select information sources and digital tools based on the appropriateness to specific tasks.
d. process data and report results.


Web tools can help you organize many things as a teacher. Having students actively participate in educational online games and research on websites is great! Students love to use technology. It gives them a since of independence and even competition against themselves. I work at a school and students are always on CompassLearningOydessey.com. This website is used in many different schools and each student challenges one another. It shows up where your score is versus other schools and students love to compete to make their school the very highest score! It’s great! Not only are the kids learning and challenging their mind, they are using technology to do it! Web tools are great exercises for students of all subject levels because there are tons of great sites for child to practice on to help them at their level. If a child struggles with Math, they can get on and practice math problems. But figuring out problems while animation is on the screen makes it so much more fun!
The hardest part about working with Web tools is finding out what is appropriate for our future students. We have to be so careful that what we allow our children to see is safe. We would never want to harm our students in any way and it is very important that we look at the site thoroughly. Besides finding the safest sites, web tools are fantastic. I would recommend doing this in any classroom. Any time you have students working with technology, great learning can be made. The best part about it is – Kids LOVE it! They love working with technology! So, why not use it to our advantage! We can have our cake and eat it too!