Readings

A Range of Use: Technology in Learning
Technology influences learning in 3 significant ways:
-A Driver for Change: The 21st Century Skills. (Technology and '21st Century Skills' must be better incorporated into the classroom by the teachers)
-A Bridge to High Academic Achievement. (Research shows that by properly incorporating technology in education students have higher academic achievement)
-A Platform for Informed Decision Making and Accountability
The different levels and applications at which technology is used and incorporated goes in line with Bloom's Taxonomy. "Learning by doing" is a great way for kids to learn and relate to. Range of Use taxonomy is used to trace/track student's experience in school.

Evaluating Internet Information
There are 8 areas of criteria to look at when reading an article on the Web to determine its quality and reliability.
-Authorship
-Publishing Body
-Point of View or Bias. Extreme views are not always easy to find.
-Referral to Other Resources
-Verifiability. Does it list references and other credible resources?
-Currency. Important dates: ie: publication, resources found.
-How to distinguish Propaganda, mis/disinformation
-The mechanics of determining Authorship, publishing body and currency on the Internet
If the information sounds "too good to be true, it probably is".