MTTS+Standard+1


 * MTTS Standard 1: Technology Information Access, Evaluation, Processing, and Application**

Access, evaluate, and process information efficiently and effectively
 * Outcome:**


 * Indicators:**
 * Identify, locate, retrieve, and differentiate among a variety of electronic sources of information using technology.
 * Evaluate information critically and competently for a specific purpose.
 * Organize, categorize, and store information for efficient retrieval.

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 * Standard I Artifact:**

The ability to use the Internet, the World Wide Web, within the classroom is amazing and allows for many great and new opportunities when it comes to the education field. The most important thing to do, when finding websites to use in the classroom, is to identify safe and valid websites for the students to view. It is important to teach students the difference between valid and non-valid sites. Later in life students will use the Internet to do research and to write papers. Knowing early on what and how sites should be used will benefit in the long run. This specific project allowed me to go back and use a search engine to do research. I then had to decipher whether a website was valid or not. This proved to be a bit on the challenging side for me, it can some times be difficult, with the overwhelming amount of websites, to choose which ones are valid and which ones are deemed to not be valid. This is definitely an activity that could be done with older students who have access to the Internet, or a way to get the parents involved. Depending on what unit, theme, or section your class is studying topics could be picked and researched, looking for both valid and non-valid websites. Then I would have the students present their findings to the class.
 * Reflection**: