Choosing the Right Air Conditioner
Meg Smith
Once upon a time the only classroom resources that teachers had were a blackboard and white chalk - and some boring textbooks with no pictures. Older people might even remember the delight they felt when coloured chalk and green blackboards came into fashion. But these were not really the good old days at all.
The 21st century classroom looks a great deal different to those old ones. Today there are computers, laptops, printers, webcams and digital cameras. Up on the wall you will see an interactive whiteboard next to the green blackboard. Extra lesson resources can be found from the Internet and downloaded at the click of your mouse. Or you can have a CD or DVD to pop into the laptop and use with the whiteboard so that all the students can see it.
Such classroom resources have made the learning experience much richer visually and a happier time for both teacher and students. Such resources are known as Web 1, and are almost standard in most classrooms. What is not quite so much the norm in a classroom is the addition of Web 2 technology; using the Internet for both communication and sharing of information.
A class could have their own website where they can post projects for the whole world to see – or just others in the class, depending on your security preferences. The teacher may even want to have a blog where comments and class reminders can be posted. Once the children were trained to go online at home, they could get access to homework reminders. They could even post questions to get help from their friends.
If the class wants to know any specific information they can go onto the Internet and contact people in other countries to help them with their research and make their lessons much more real. So sharing information and communicating with each other via the Internet is the next step onwards for the modern classroom.
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