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The problem, I began to realize, was my own understanding of how the iPads should be utilized in the classroom. I had seen them as a supplement to my pre-existing curriculum, trying to fit them into the structure of what I’d always done. This was the wrong approach: To truly change how my classroom worked, I needed a technology-based redefinition of my practic

Redefine with a goal in mind. When rethinking your curriculum and classroom, identify the goals you have for yourself and your students. I focused on two important goals: increased differentiation and robust, efficient assessment. Next, I asked myself, "Can the iPads help me reach those goals?" Realizing that they could, I redesigned my classroom practice around the goals, with iPads as the infrastructure. Here are a few examples:

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.

Use digital technology and communication tools to access, manage, integrate and evaluate information; Construct new knowledge; Communicate with others effectively.

What is Information Literacy?

How much are they really learning through their passion for computer-based entertainment? How do we maximise the educational benefits of that passion, without, of course, killing it stone dead? Or - and there will be some who continue to believe this - should education and entertainment remain on entirely separate tracks?

it is incumbent on humanities instructors to teach undergraduates how to read websites and digital discovery tools with the same critical vigilance with which they are taught to read textual arguments

research has shown that most members of the “born digital” generation do not know how those tools work

the point is to spur students to “think critically and differently” about digital gateways and to “encourage new forms of close reading, knowledge production and interpretation” in the context of the modern information landscape

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Integrated Studies

Information literacy enables people to interpret and make informed judgments as users of information sources, as well as to become producers of information in their own right.

Information literate people are able to

make critical decisions