EDST 667 (Summer, 1996):
Curriculum Project
As classroom teachers, you are already curriculum experts. This project is intended to help you focus on how the Internet can be used to enhance or extend a particular curriculum objective.
This project is NOT about creating materials to teach students about the Internet or the Web. However, you may want to include tasks that help students reflect on how using the Internet is different or better or worse than other ways they could have done the project.
This project is NOT about gathering a list of Internet resources for students and pointing them at them without direction.
This project IS about attacking one or more curriculum objectives and bringing Internet resources to bear on it. In fact, you may have curriculum plans that you use already that could be adapted to make use of the Internet.
Requirements
- You can use any format that is clear and seems appropriate to you. You may want to use the format in the text for this course.
- Your project must include the following:
- A statement of purpose clearly defining the target audience, subject area, and specific curriculum objectives.
- An explanation of how network resources will be used by the students and by a teacher who may want to use this.
- A management plan for carrying out the project including an explanation of how your students will have access to the Internet. (This does not have to be based on fact.)
- Your project may include the creation of one or more Web pages, but this is not required.
Scoring Rubric
- The objective of the project is tied to some important curriculum objective.
- Network resources or activities form a significant part of the student experience.
- Internet resources are used in ways that are unique to the Internet, not merely as substitutes for paper resources.
- The management plan addresses the changing nature of the Internet and the possibility that connections may not be available at any given time.
- The management plan addresses the availability of Internet connections to all students in the class.
This page is part of the course materials for EDST 667: Using the Internet for Curriculum Applications, taught June 17-28, 1996 at the University of Delaware. Please send any comments to Pat Sine (sine@udel.edu).