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We set out to help teachers improve their classroom practice, through collaborating and sharing expertise with teachers around the world …

We set out to create a community which fosters global dialogue and discussion between teachers and students …

We wanted our students to have regular opportunities to share, learn and collaborate with children around the world, helping them to discover our common humanity …

Guided inquiry is a practical way of implementing an inquiry approach that addresses these 21st-century learning needs for students.

An important advantage for students who use the guided inquiry approach is the variety of different competencies and knowledge they can develop.

Based on how Google ranks search results, typing in a question will be more likely to bring back pages with a question for a title.

So I have students write down their questions and teach them how to mark them up to create queries, the first step being to identify the significant words.

Nouns frequently make good search terms, so students can start by drawing the people, places, and things in their questions.

Edutopia is dedicated to transforming the learning process by helping educators implement the strategies below

Integrated Studies

There is increasing recognition that the end result of computer literacy is not knowing how to operate computers, but to use technology as a tool for organization, communication, research, and problem solving. This is an important shift in approach and emphasis. 

Successful integrated information skills programs are designed around collaborative projects jointly planned and taught by teachers and library media professionals. Information technology skills instruction can and should be imbedded in such a curriculum. Library media specialists, computer teachers, and classroom teachers need to work together to develop units and lessons that will include both technology skills, information skills, and content-area curriculum outcomes. 

Students need to be able to use computers and other technologies flexibly, creatively and purposefully. All learners should be able to recognize what they need to accomplish, determine whether a computer will help them to do so, and then be able to use the computer as part of the process of accomplishing their task. Individual computer skills take on a new meaning when they are integrated within this type of information problem-solving process, and students develop true "information technology literacy" because they have genuinely applied various information technology skills as part of the learning process.