Capability Five ResourceS

Welcome to the Web:

Using your Browser

URL: http://www.w2tw.uk/4512.htm

Cost: Free

Accessibility: Access through any internet browser

Description: This activity provides an online tutorial that teaches students how to distinguish between Internet Browsers and how use different browsers effectively.

Australian Curriculum links: ICT General Capability: Understanding ICT Systems Level 3

"Students identify and compare the use of the main components of different ICT systems (Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority, 2014)"

 

Critique: Our "digital native" (Prensky, 2001) students learn by interacting with technology and prefer to receive information quickly, therefore the use of self-paced internet tutorials like Welcome to the Web: Using your Browser are highly beneficial for classroom use (Ng, 2012). This tutorial could be used by primary classroom teachers to teach students about the features of different IT Internet browsers, by enabling students to independently work through the interactive content using different web browsers (Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting, 2014). Students could then apply their learning from the tutorial to select a browser that is most useful to them to use when searching the Internet on different devices.

 

References

   

   Australian Curriculum and Assessment Reporting Authority. (2014). Information and Communication Technology General Capability (ICT) Continuum. Retrieved from http://www.australiancurriculum.edu.au/generalcapabilities/information-and-communication-technology-capability/continuum#layout=columns

 

   Ng, W. (2012). Can we teach digital natives digital literacy?. Computers & Education, 59(3), 1065-1078. Retrieved from https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Wan_Ng3/publication/257171162_Can_we_teach_digital_natives_digital_literacy/links/02e7e52f9560bc3b81000000.pdf

 

   Prensky, M. (2001). "Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants Part 1", On the Horizon, 9(5), pp. 1 – 6. Retrieved from http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/10748120110424816