E-Learning in the K-6 Classroom

This interview is with a US classroom teacher, Susan Silverman, who talks about how the internet has opened up many opportunities for learning in her classroom. There are many academic articles on the topic but it is nice to read one from a teacher’s perspective.

Susan says “The Internet gave me the opportunity to really open the classroom walls, bring the world into the room, and collaborate with the global community.” Susan is known for her collaborative internet projects, for which she has won an International Reading Association award – the Miss Rumphius Award, that is presented by members of RTEACHER  (an online community of more than 1,000 educators from around the globe) to educators who develop and share exceptional Internet resources for literacy and learning.

It contains some good ideas for online literacy learning; you might like to look at the interview with Roxie Albrecht about writing and technology.

The interview was featured in Teachers’ Voices, a Reading Online series which is a freely available, online-only publication of the International Reading Association (IRA), a professional organization of literacy educators. Its focus is literacy practice and research in classrooms serving students aged 5 to 18. “Literacy” is broadly defined to include traditional print literacy, as well as visual literacy, critical literacy, media literacy, digital literacy, and so on.
(From http://www.readingonline.org/about/about_index.asp)

Also, have a look at the Index of articles available on Reading Online, there are some interesting titles relevant to ICT education.