The Use of Educational Web Tools: An Innovative Technique in Teacher Education Courses

Ava Clare Marie O. Robles

College of Education, Mindanao State University, Philippines

ava_robles@yahoo.com

Educational Web tools provide teachers with opportunities to adopt the most appropriate educational tools to suit their students’ learning preferences. Students in this digital age need to learn how to effectively and efficiently collaborate, create and share information through the use of different tools available on the Web. This paper reports the results of an empirical study on the use of educational Web tools as a technique to enhance student learning in selected Education subjects. The results showed that students have a positive attitudes towards the use of educational Web tools, and the students’ skills and the benefits they experienced differ according to their attitudes toward the use of educational Web tools in the subject. The presentation includes examples of student work using educational Web tools which can be found at http://robles2011.blogspot.com/.

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