The
Web@Classroom aims to understand the innovation processes
in an Internet permanently connected classroom, specially the
impacts on teachers (pedagogical practice, patterns of ICT use
into the curricular subjects) and on pupils (learning outcomes,
development of research skills, development of skills to critically
appraise web based information and application of this skills
to developing knowledge in the subject area). As an action-research
project it is also based in collaborative work strategies, between
researchers and schoolteachers and pupils to help them to integrate
ICT into the curriculum subjects.
The
Web@Classroom aims to study the ICT impacts on teaching
and learning processes like the acquisition of skills research,
information handling, selection and filtering skills to allow
appraise critically web based materials, and other aspects of
ICT use on education, by children (age 9-13). This study intends
to contribute for the acceptation of the idea that governments
and schools should connect the classroom to the Internet, as the
Internet is a new and useful source of information and knowledge
and children should learn how to use it as a tool for learning.
Internet should be present in the classroom, as are other resources
and materials like books, videos, and other sources of information
and knowledge, building new educational environments in our schools.