The paperless classroom gives K-12 teachers the ability to build web-based instruction that intrigues learners like never before. Unlike a simple homework page, attached to a networked district website, classroom websites offer much more. A completely interactive paperless classroom involves the students in a way that most district sites do not.
With a wiki-hosted paperless classroom, teachers can do more than simply direct students and parents to homework or classroom assignments. The classroom website includes multiple web pages, each containing links to documents, PowerPoint presentations, web-based testing sites, interactive learning stations and virtually anything a teacher wants to provide for students and parents.
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The Internet is a treasure trove of knowledge, especially for students in search of immediate information gratification. However, the ‘Net contains billions of files, and unless you know the exact URL of the one you want, you’re going to have to rely on search engines to help you unearth the info you need.
Search engines are tools that allow you to search for information available on the Web using keywords and search terms. Rather than searching the Web itself, however, you are actually searching the engine’s database of files.
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A woman switches on a tiny wireless chip that has been surgically implanted behind her ear, which then synchs up with the Web wherever she is in the world. The simple thought of logging on to the Internet triggers the system to turn on and connect to the Web. She could be on a bus or at the beach and from all outward appearances she’s just staring off into space. But she sees a three dimensional artificial world before her that she can manipulate any way she chooses by mere thought alone.
By looking at the trends of today we can begin to develop a image of what the Web of the future will look like. I believe the Web will improve and grow in a way that will dwarf its present existence and will improve and enrich everyone’s lives way beyond what we can imagine today. The Net will become as integrated into everyone’s everyday lives as much as, and even more so, than the television or phone (in developed nations first, then everywhere). Television, communications and the Internet will merge.
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