Internet Assignments

 

Assignment 1 (30%) Technology in Early Childhood Education

 

Use your internet searching skills to find resources on the topics below. Write an essay on your chosen topic using the references from the articles that you have downloaded. Print the articles online and attached them. Develop your own article(10-15 pages) and translate it into Malay Language. Cite your references and electronic sources accordingly.

Send in: 

·         the essay (printed and on diskette)
In your write-up, include the standard reference information (author, publication date, article title, journal, and Web site with date downloaded, if applicable).

·          the printed articles used as reference (online printing)

 

Topics: Articles/Tutorials

1. Young Children and Technology: A World of Discovery

2. Advantages and disadvantages of computer use by children

3. Using Technology to Enhance Early Learning Experiences

4. Internet skills, World Wide Web and Searching the WWW

5. Internet for Early Childhood Education

6. Evaluating Information Found on the Internet

7. Evaluating and selecting software for children.

      8. Publishing on the Web

      9. PowerPoint for Teachers and Using MS Power Point to create Storybook

10. Technology Issues in Early Childhood Education

 

Examples of essay to be develop:

Topics:

1) Evaluating Information Found on the Internet

basic criteria for evaluating all forms of information & how they apply to the Internet, advice on information evaluation including authorship, publishing body, point of view or bias, referral to other sources, verifiability, currency & documenting electronic sources etc.

2) Searching the World Wide Web: A Tutorial

(http://owl.english.purdue.edu/internet/search/)

(http://www.infopeople.org/search/chart.html)

 

3) Internet skills, World Wide Web and Searching the WWW

Types of Websites- domains, Search Engines, Net Search, Emailing, E-Cards, Net Safety, Net Etiquette etc.

 

References:

Haugland, S. W. (1992). The effect of computer software on preschool children's developmental gains. JOURNAL OF COMPUTING IN CHILDHOOD EDUCATION, 3(1), 15-30. EJ 438 238. Haugland, S. W., & Wright, J. L. (1997). YOUNG CHILDREN AND TECHNOLOGY: A WORLD OF DISCOVERY. New York:

What we will learn:

  1. Searching
  2. Group Discussion
  3. Tools – Dictionary | Thesaurus | Download Application |
  4. Mind Mapping
  5. Application for Tutorial Development

 

Assignment 2 (30%) : Create a tutorial website.

 

Use your selected article as your topic and create a tutorial-based website. Your pages will be evaluated according to the following criteria:

a)      Objective of the site with appropriate audience

b)      Website layout and navigation design

c)      The content

d)      Links

e)      References

 

 

Example:

WELCOME TO INTERNET FOR EDUCATION (http://www.vts.rdn.ac.uk/tutorial/education/)

Ramadhan Kareem