In a lower elementary classroom an online experience that would work well with students is a webquest. Webquests can be used to teach any content area, and can also be used to teach cross curricular. The focus could be on science or social studies, but also ask students to incorporate some reading and writing tasks. When using a webquest students are able to see a task defined for them, the teacher can even model an example of the task, and then students have interactive practice through games, or use other internet resources, where they apply what they have learned.
One technology that might be harder to use with lower elementary students is interactive discussions with experts. I believe this would be a challenge due to the lack of an actual person coming to the classroom and the short attention span of lower elementary students. Another online experience that might be challenging is an online project. I feel it would be very overwhelming for students to learn how to organize all the information to create an online project.
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