Hence, a new divide is opening up, one centred on the quality of use. The UKCGO survey finds that middle class children, children with internet access at home, children with broadband access and children whose parents use the internet more often are more likely to be daily users and so to experience the internet as a rich, if risky, medium than are less privileged children.
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Free Technology for Teachers: iCyte - Highlight and Currate Web Research - 15 views
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"iCyte is a fantastic browser extension available for Firefox 3 and Internet Explorer 7 and 8. iCyte gives you the ability to highlight and save sections of websites for later reference. When you save an item in iCyte an archive of the website is saved in your iCyte account. To organize your findings, you can create folders within your iCyte account. The short video embedded below demonstrates the basics of using iCyte."
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Highlight online text. To organise findings folders can be created.
If you host it they will come - 27 views
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Video on hosting an online project.
iTALC - 0 views
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Looks like a good free option for managing student computers in a computer lab.
Teacher Utilities Smartboard - 0 views
Visuwords™ online graphical dictionary and thesaurus - 0 views
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Visuwords uses a web design to show users the definitions of words and the connections between words. To use Visuwords just type a word into the search box and Visuwords will generate a web of related words. Place your cursor over any of the words and the definition appears. Use the color-coded key to understand the connections between the words in any web. Below is the web based on the word "geography."
Today's Meet - 0 views
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Talk. Listen. Today's Meet helps you embrace the backchannel and connect with your audience in realtime. Encourage the room to use the live stream to make comments, ask questions, and use that feedback to tailor your presentation, sharpen your points, and address audience needs.
Primary Lesson Starts | Teachers TV - 0 views
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Find short starter clips for use on interactive whiteboards in your classroom, covering primary maths, science and literacy Videos in this series: 10
UK Children Go Online | The Communication Initiative Network - 1 views
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Those not falling into this category will lose on the benefits of high-speed, regular internet use.
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Summary This nationwide survey of 1,500 children aged 9-19 and their parents is part of a research project carried out by UK Children Go Online (UKCGO). Between January and March 2004, researchers conducted in-home, face-to-face interviews, lasting some 40 minutes, of 1,511 children and 906 parents across the United Kingdom.
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2004 is severely out of date in this field. The figures today are going to be much higher.
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Currently, 74% have internet access via a computer, games console or digital television
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2004 research on UK internet access for children. Presumably the figures have increased since then.
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Leigh Newton
Teaching Grade 6/7 at St Josephs Memorial School, Norwood, South Australia, fter a stint of schools in Turkey, Azerbaijan and the Northern Territory of Australia.