طرق ونماذج لاستخدام الإنترنت في التدريس

Abstract

Recently, the Internet has developed tremendously and has become a big book open to the whole world. The issue of knowledgeability (expertise) has turned out to be the key issue in our ability to deal with the huge amount of information flooding our world through the Internet. It has become imperative for every population or state interested in dealing with this age of expertise and computerization to introduce some changes in their curricula and educational institutions in order to be able to absorb the tremendous change of the world surrounding us.

Thus, in the last few years, the integration of the Internet into the teaching process has intensified. The first efforts were made by some individual lecturers who felt the huge potential of the new technology, particularly within those colleges and universities which adopted distance learning as an integral part of their teaching methods. In order to make the best use of this information, there has been a real need for special tools, methods and concrete teaching strategies for using the Internet for teaching purposes. These will enable the learner to distinguish what is good and needed in this sea of information, and to be protected against what is misleading and harmful, and to use this knowledge usefully and intelligently. Professional literature related to teaching and education is rife with the description of both current and expected changes when technologically integrating the Internet into teaching, describing also the expected change in the status of the teacher and the role of the student when incorporating the Internet into the teaching process. However, only few books and articles are available to provide us with information about the practical models and methods on how to integrate the Internet in the learning process, whether in theory and practice.  Therefore, this article relates to different important models for helping integrate the Internet in learning and teaching processes. The article revolves around four different models: List of Links, Treasure Hunt, The Web Quest, and The Big Six. The article will attempt to describe each of the four models with some details. It will talk about each model’s main features, comparing it with the other models, and offering the teachers some advice about how to use and operate each one of the models in order to enable them to choose what fits their teaching objectives.