Web Literacy Education Of Technical Secondary School Students

Everything is changing since Internet was born. And students are the ones most affected. Although we can benefit a lot from surfing,the disadvantaged aspects can not be neglected.Students are turning in increasing numbers to the World Wide Web as a resource, though not necessarily with on understanding of how to assess the reliability or value of the information they find there. At all stages of the research process, but especially at the assessment stage, the Web poses challenges that writing teachers should address explicitly in guiding students to become skillful and discerning readers of Web sites. The Web literacy student need involves an ability to manage the diverse and largely unfiltered content of the Web and an attentiveness to the information conveyed in a site's non-textual features, most notably its images, links, and interactivity.Teaching students this literacy means supplementing the evaluative criteria traditionally applied to print sources with new strategies far making sense of diverse kinds of texts presented in hyper-textual and multimedia format. Assessing the value of information offered at Web sites can enhance students'research and writing skills and is also an important step in educating students to be critical users of the Web and the Internet.So the study of web literacy is brought forward. The significance for students of taking web literacy courses means more than experience. In theory, a brand new definition of web literacy enriches the study. It is consisted of four parts. Web skill literacy, web communication literacy, web morality literacy and web cognitive literacy.Then, web literacy curriculum is put into practice based on the questionnaire of the basic information and web communication literacy of the students. It shows that most of the students who have taken the courses improve their web literacy obviously, except web morality literacy and web cognitive literacy. And within several talks between students, it shows that the viewpoints of students toward Internet have changed.At the end of the thesis, more suggestions of web literacy education are put forward.