Grabe Post

#1 What is the Big Six and how should it be used?

Well the big six are: Task definition, Information Seeking, Locating and Accessing, Use of Information, Organize and Communicate, and Evaluation.

How they should be use is in order for one thing (it makes it much easier). Grabe talks about this six skill and their relationship with the internet. With task definition you really should decide what you need to know before you start your internet adventures. You really start this "adventure" with information seeking, students really need to be familiar with internet sources to be able to seek information using them. With locating and accessing Grabe mentions scaffolding and integrating skills into authentic tasks. He talks about how to use each skill with the internet and emphasizing you should teach your students how to use the internet and how to use it in a academically beneficial way.

As with an source the information on the Internet needs to be processes and then used according to the problem solving task or assignment. Critical thinking skills come into play here, what is important and what is not.

The last of the six is evaluation which I believe to be the most important really. As the rest are important as well evaluation is the task were you make sure all of your sources are correct and the information is as well.

The big six can be used in things such as research papers and assignments such as photo stories. These skills should be taught and used with teacher support so the students learn and engage in the activity with the proper academic outlook.

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Harris Post

#1 Harris (1998) lists eighteen activity structures for Internet projects as well as numerous examples. Are these learning projects prevalent in today's classrooms? Why or Why not?

I read 'An Illusory Dilemma...' and it groups the eighteen activity structures for Internet Projects into three categories, Interpersonal exchanges, Information Collection and Analysis and Problem Solving activities. These to me sound like skills that teachers want their students to learn. The Internet is a vast resource to teach these skills. These 18 activity structures for Internet Projects are absolutely prevalent to today's classrooms. The Internet is here to stay and we should take advantage of it capablity of being a great learning tool and catalyst. Of course like any learning it should be monitored because of some content found on the web, but if the instructor prepares for the lesson and shows the students how to use the Internet as a learning resource it can and will be productive.

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