SOCIAL SCIENCE CLASSROOM AND INTERNET

ASWATHY C. ROLL NO: 3 B.ED SOCIAL SCIENCE GCTE THYCAUD, TRIVANDRUM INTERNET AND SOCIAL SCIENCE CLASSROOM

INTRODUCTION

Social science educators are living and working in the middle of a revolution - the emergence of the internet as an integral part of education. This presentation summarizes the advantages of internet in social science classroom .

ADVANTAGES OF INTERNET IN SOCIAL SCIENCE CLASSROOMINTERNET AS A LIBRARY Internet open the way to an enormous range of resources. Many websites provides social science text books which are written by social science experts and all sorts of economic data, including Gross National Product per capita, key economic ratios and long term trend for every nation are available at world bank site. So, internet is considered as the source of knowledge. we can use the updated knowledge from internet for enriching our general awareness.

INTERESTING TEACHING LERANING PROCESS Many social science websites include photographs, songs, videosetc. by using such images, videos makes a social science classroom more interesting.

VIRTUAL FIELD TRIPS Teachers and students can take field trips via the internet. From a visit to the White House (http://www.whitehouse.gov) to tour of the Egyptian pyramids (http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/pyramid/) many historical and contemporary sites are just a few mouse clicks away.

PUBLISHING STUDENTS WORK everything that teachers once displayed on bulletin boards, from traditional essays to students art works can be posted on classroom or school portal sites. Even more elaborate projects, journey reports.. Etc can be published on the sites.

VIDEO CONFERENCES IN CLASSROOM With video conferencing the classroom has become geographically limitless. No longer do students have to feel confined to their rooms, schools or even to their countries. With a video conference setup they can reap the benefits of wisdom from all over the world.

Endless benefits of internet are out there