Students have more information at their fingertips than ever before, yet the challenge remains for them to find, evaluate, and apply the information they discover in the classroom and beyond.Applying critical thinking skills through web research can help students:
Improve search skills.Evaluate the information they find.Incorporate them in their work.Explore the ready-to-use curriculum below, including detailed lesson plans, student worksheets, and class demonstration
Karen Blumberg's Notes from TSETC. She covers sessions on building a PLN, using web 2.0 tools, researching on the web, teaching with games, using an iPad, using social media, going global, and using digital storytelling.
Google has not only taken over the world, but they are positioned to take over many of the classrooms! There are many Google resources and applications that can be utilized in the classroom. Below you will find them organized into the following categories: Applications (downloads); Collaboration; Research Resources and Other Resources.
Excellent resource! Provides explanations on how to do almost anything you could possibly want to do in your classroom. Go to it, bookmark it, use it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thanks for this Heather.
thanks so much for sharing this! It will be incredibly useful for students in African Studies as well as our Comparative World Studies classes where we study differnet cultures and the students research different aspects of culture.